BBC News - Technology

8 February 2012Last updated at 11:25

Origins of LifeWill where we come from change how we think about the future?

How to predict the future

From watching Star Trek to morphological analysis, there is more than one way to work out what's heading our way.

Grow your own meatHow would you like your laboratory burger?

Power from the peopleBiofuel cells could turn humans into batteries.

Real-life JediHow to control objects using thought alone

Ready for the revolutionRemember the promise: robots will change our life?

Virus factoriesTiny organisms are the future of manufacturing

Read/write geneticsRewriting human genes is becoming reality

Ideas that could change the world

Technology Features

Single molecule motor
The tiniest electric motor is made from a single molecule
Acoustic cloaking
How to make an object invisible to sound
Is hydrogen the future of motoring?
How creating a "Hydrogen Highway" along the M4 motorway could revolutionise an industry.
DNA computing
The chemical computer that could lead to "programmable chemistry"
Memristor laid bare
Getting under the sking of a revolutionary circuit component