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3D
4G
5G
AR
HAP
NFC
NUI
PAN
PGS
SPIME
UAV
VASIMR
ACRONYMS
3D screens and cameras
Fourth gen cellular wireless (WiMAX, LTE)
Fifth gen cellular wireless
Augmented Reality
High Altitude Platform
Near Field Communication
Natural User Interface
Personal Area Networks
Personal Gene Sequencing
An object that can be tracked
through space and time
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Variable Specific Impulse
Magnetoplasma Rocket
Inductive
chargers
Solar
Nuclear
Kinetic
Traveling
wave reactor
Thorium
reactors
Fuel cells
Multi-segmented
smart grids
Biomechanical
harvesting
Smart
meters
Solar
thermal
Superconducting
interties
Bio-enhanced
fuels
Ultra-
capacitors
Nanostructure
batterycathodes
Artificial
photosynthesis
Piezo-
electricity
Photvoltaic
glass
Photo-
voltaics
Nano-
generators
ENERGY
Private
spaceflight
Space
tourism
Space
elevator
Lunar
outpost
VASIMR
SPACE
All media
on demand
Gamification
of media
MEDIA
Procedural
storytelling
Location-aware
media
Smart
toys
Appliance
robots
Self-driving
vehicles
Domestic
robots
Swarm
robotics
Utility
fog
Exoskeletons
UAVs
ROBOTICS
Speech
recognition
Haptics
Holography
AR
Gesture
recognition
Multi
touch
Machine
vision
Telepresence
NUI
(SOFTWARE)
Immersive 3D
projections
Fabric-
embedded
screens
Pico-
projectors
Smart clothing
Skin-embedded
screens
Electronic
paper
SPIMES
Tabs &
Pads
Boards
Retinal
screens
3D
UBICOMP
(HARDWARE)
Wetware
(biofeedback) Reversal of
aging
Optogenetics
Stem-cell
treatments
Regenerative
medicine
Synthetic
meat
Vertical
agriculture
PGS
Personalized
medicine
Artificial limbs
Tele-
medicine
BIOTECH
Bio-
markers
High-frequency
trading
Software
agents
Machine
translation
Medical
diagnostics
Intelligence
Amplification
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Natural language
interpretation
NFC
Social
graph
Linked
data
Semantic
web
4G
5G
Sensors
Smart
infrastructure
Smart
cities
Cloud
computing
Pervasive
video
PAN
Interplanetary
internet
Virtual
currencies
Cyber-
warfare
INTERNET
(CONNECTIVITY)
HAPs
Virtual
property
Programmable matter
Cermets
Memristor
Carbon
nanotubes
Molecular
assembler
Nanowires
Meta-
materials
Print on
demand
3D
printing
Bio-
materials
MATERIALS
Self-healing
materials
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