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2016 was a year many would rather forget. From the never-ending stream of bad news to a brutal election that seemed like it would never end to the dozens of celebrities - including a few in the tech world - that passed on, it was a tough year.

But 2016 also had its share of important technological breakthroughs that changed how we live, work, and play. Virtual reality made a big comeback in 2016 and is sure to get even hotter this year. Virtual assistants moved out of our cell phones and into our homes, and smart home technologies may have finally broken through to the mainstream.

So what do we expect in the new year? There's a myriad of tech trends we're watching that will change the world once again in 2017; here's the top five you should keep an eye on.

Internet of Things (and the Death of the Hub)

The Internet of Things has been on just about everybody's list for years. So why hasn't it caught on? The issue lies in interoperability. In theory, the IoT is supposed to connect all our devices together, making them sing in a glorious technological harmony. Thing is, we're not at that point yet - at least in a usable manner, and in a way that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out.

We'll use the smart home as an example here. Much of the work in the past several years has revolved around the idea of a "smart hub," in layman's terms a souped-up wireless router with extra communications technologies built in. But ask any smart home system owner, and they'll tell you it's not a perfect solution.

A multitude of wireless technologies now exist to serve your smart home needs - Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and more. And there's more smart home platforms to consider than ever before too - Wink, SmartThings, Iris by Lowe's, even systems from security providers like ADT and big brands like Comcast. While centralization in theory should make things easier, it's made it worse.

Smart home tech may have finally broken through to the mainstream.

Some smart home gadgets won't work with certain smart home platforms - for example, your Philips Hue lights won't work with your Iris by Lowe's system (likely a business decision as Lowe's doesn't carry the Hue product line). Plus if your smart hub goes down, your entire system typically goes with it.

Expect a refocus this year when it comes to smart homes. Wi-Fi is a tested and true wireless networking technology, and routers are serving up ever larger amounts of bandwidth, so there's plenty of space to handle your connected home. Also, new smart home devices are choosing Wi-Fi to maximize compatibility.

Instead of using a centralized hub, device manufacturers will focus on interoperability between themselves. This might have the consequence of shrinking the number of directly compatible devices, but it may not matter. Ither technologies can take the place of the hub, and likely do a better job of it.

IFTTT can connect those devices in any way you see fit, and Amazon's Alexa and Google Home can control them by voice. The hub just isn't necessary anymore, and that might be a good thing.

AI and Automation, Everywhere

Automation is nothing new - at least on the business side. Our experiences with automated technologies primarily comes in the form of those pesky automated customer service systems we're forced to call every time we need help. But it's only going to get more commonplace this year.

Automated customer service won't go away, but it will get better. At the same time, online customer service will be automated as well, thanks to better AI and chatbots that understand context a whole lot better than ever before.

More and more jobs will also be automated - even journalist's work on writing the news (don't worry, we aren't going anywhere). We'll also see smart devices gain from increased automation, learning your patterns and preferences without you needing to tell them and making better and more accurate suggestions and recommendations.

Here's one interesting area to watch: fast food. 2016 saw a lot of talk of removing the human component from food service; will self-serve kiosks make an appearance in the year ahead? On top of that, automated drone delivery should also see wider-scale testing by the end of the year - especially by Amazon.

Are there negatives? Of course. We've heard complaints for a long time about the lack of interpersonal communication these days. And jobs may be lost as a result of the move away from humans. No doubt, the discussion surrounding how far we'll let automation run our lives will only get louder in the New Year.

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Rockets typically are destroyed on their maiden voyage. But now they can make an upright landing and be refueled for another trip, setting the stage for a new era in spaceflight.

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Thousands of rockets have flown into space, but not until 2015 did one return like this: it came down upright on a landing pad, steadily firing to control its descent, almost as if a movie of its launch were being played backward. If this can be done regularly and rockets can be refueled over and over, spaceflight could become a hundred times cheaper.

Reusable Rockets

Breakthrough Rockets that can launch payloads into orbit and then land safely.

Why It Matters Lowering the cost of flight would open the door to many new endeavors in space.

Key Players in the New Space Industry - SpaceX
- Blue Origin
- United Launch Alliance

Two tech billionaires made it happen. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin first pulled off a landing in November ; Elon Musk's SpaceX did it in December . The companies are quite different-Blue Origin hopes to propel tourists in capsules on four-minute space rides, while SpaceX already launches satellites and space station supply missions-but both need reusable rockets to improve the economics of spaceflight.

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Blasting things into space has been expensive because rockets cost tens of millions of dollars and fly once before burning up in a free fall back through the atmosphere. SpaceX and Blue Origin instead bring theirs down on fold-out legs, a trick that requires onboard software to precise fire thrusters and manipulate flaps that slow or nudge the rockets at moments.

SpaceX has the harder job because Blue Origin's craft go half as fast and half as high and stay mostly vertical, whereas SpaceX's rockets have to switch out of a horizontal position. A reminder of how many things can go wrong came in January, when SpaceX just missed a second landing because a rocket leg didn't latch into place. Even so, it's now clear that the future of spaceflight will be far more interesting than the Apollo-era hangover of the past 40 years.

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Despite the excitement that 3-D printing has generated, its capabilities remain rather limited. It can be used to make complex shapes, but most commonly only out of plastics. Even manufacturers using an advanced version of the technology known as additive manufacturing typically have expanded the material palette only to a few types of metal alloys. But what if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing and matching the "inks" with precision?

Microscale 3-D Printing

Breakthrough 3-D printing that uses multiple materials to create objects such as biological tissue with blood vessels.

Why It Matters Making biological materials with desired functions could lead to artificial organs and novel cyborg parts.

Key Players Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University
Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
Keith Martin, University of Cambridge

To show off its ability to do multimaterial 3-D printing, Lewis's lab has printed a complex lattice using different inks.

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Jennifer Lewis, a materials scientist at Harvard University, is developing the chemistry and machines to make that possible. She prints intricately shaped objects from "the ground up," precisely adding materials that are useful for their mechanical properties, electrical conductivity, or optical traits. This means 3-D printing technology could make objects that sense and respond to their environment. "Integrating form and function," she says, "is the next big thing that needs to happen in 3-D printing."

Left: For the demonstration, the group formulated four polymer inks, each dyed a different color.

Right: The different inks are placed in standard print heads.

Bottom: By sequentially and precisely depositing the inks in a process guided by the group's software, the printer quickly produces the colorful lattice.

A group at Princeton University has printed a bionic ear, combining biological tissue and electronics (see " Cyborg Parts "), while a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has printed retinal cells to form complex eye tissue. But even among these impressive efforts to extend the possibilities of 3-D printing, Lewis's lab stands out for the range of materials and types of objects it can print.

Last year, Lewis and her students showed they could print the microscopic electrodes and other components needed for tiny lithium-ion batteries (see " Printing Batteries "). Other projects include printed sensors fabricated on plastic patches that athletes could one day wear to detect concussions and measure violent impacts. Most recently, her group printed biological tissue interwoven with a complex network of blood vessels. To do this, the researchers had to make inks out of various types of cells and the materials that form the matrix supporting them. The work addresses one of the lingering challenges in creating artificial organs for drug testing or, someday, for use as replacement parts: how to create a vascular system to keep the cells alive.

Top: Inks made of silver nanoparticles are used to print electrodes as small as a few micrometers.

Bottom: As in the other 3-D printing processes, the operation is controlled and monitored by computers.

Left: Jennifer Lewis's goal is to print complex architectures that integrate form and function.

Right: A glove with strain sensors is made by printing electronics into a stretchable elastomer.

In a basement lab a few hundred yards from Lewis's office, her group has jury-rigged a 3-D printer, equipped with a microscope, that can precisely print structures with features as small as one micrometer (a human red blood cell is around 10 micrometers in diameter). Another, larger 3-D printer, using printing nozzles with multiple outlets to print multiple inks simultaneously, can fabricate a meter-sized sample with a desired microstructure in minutes.

The secret to Lewis's creations lies in inks with properties that allow them to be printed during the same fabrication process. Each ink is a different material, but they all can be printed at room temperature. The various types of materials present different challenges; cells, for example, are delicate and easily destroyed as they are forced through the printing nozzle. In all cases, though, the inks must be formulated to flow out of the nozzle under pressure but retain their form once in place-think of toothpaste, Lewis says.

Left: The largest printer in Lewis's lab makes objects up to a meter by a meter.

Top: For such jobs, the printer uses a 64- or 128-nozzle array to speed up the process.

Bottom: A test sample with a layered microstructure was printed in minutes using wax ink.

Before coming to Harvard from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last year, Lewis had spent more than a decade developing 3-D printing techniques using ceramics, metal nanoparticles, polymers, and other nonbiological materials. When she set up her new lab at Harvard and began working with biological cells and tissues for the first time, she hoped to treat them the same way as materials composed of synthetic particles. That idea might have been a bit naïve, she now acknowledges. Printing blood vessels was an encouraging step toward artificial tissues capable of the complex biological functions found in organs. But working with the cells turns out to be "really complex," she says. "And there's a lot more that we need to do before we can print a fully functional liver or kidney. But we've taken the first step."

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To visit the lab of Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer is to enter a realm where the ordinary rules of physical stuff don't seem to apply. Greer designs and builds nanomaterials that behave in ways surprising to those of us who spend our days in a world where strong materials like ceramic and steel tend to be heavy, while lightweight ones are weak. When Greer controls architecture at the nanoscale, the rules change.

Nano-Architecture

Breakthrough Materials whose structures can be precisely tailored so they are strong yet flexible and extremely light.

Why It Matters Lighter structural materials would be more energy-efficient and versatile.

Key Players Julia Greer, Caltech
William Carter, HRL Laboratories
Nicholas Fang, MIT
Christopher Spadaccini, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Greer in her Caltech lab, holding a model of the atomic structure of a metal.

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Conventional ceramics are strong, heavy, and (as anyone who has dropped a plate knows) brittle, prone to shattering. But last year Greer created a ceramic that is one of the strongest and lightest substances ever made. It's also not brittle. In a video Greer made (you can see it below), a cube of the material shudders a bit as a lab apparatus presses down hard on it, then collapses. When the pressure is removed, it rises back up "like a wounded soldier," she says. "It's unreal, isn't it?" Greer often rushes to meetings around campus on Rollerblades and talks so fast that she demands focused listening. Peering into this beautiful, otherworldly nanolattice on her computer screen, she slows down for a while.

If materials like Greer's could be produced in large quantities, they could replace composites and other materials used in a wide range of applications, because they'd be just as strong at a fraction of the weight. Another possibility is to greatly increase the energy density of batteries-the amount of power they can hold at a given size. To do that, researchers have been trying to develop electrodes that are lighter than the ones used in today's batteries but can store more energy. However, promising electrode materials such as silicon are prone to cracking under strain. An electrode made by coating a metal nanolattice with silicon could have crack-resistant toughness in its very structure. The key to creating such wondrous materials is an arsenal of specialized machines-some of which Greer has rebuilt to suit her purposes-that make it possible to precisely control structure at the nanoscale over relatively large areas.

Greer jogs down two floors of stairs to the basement lab where she keeps these precision instruments to isolate them from vibrations. One machine, found behind two heavy black curtains, is a sort of 3-D printer that uses flashes of laser light to very slowly build intricate polymer scaffolds. A student of Greer's coats the polymer with metals, ceramics, or other materials and then shaves off the sides, making it possible to etch away the polymer inside. The result is a little block of material made up of nanoscale trusses crisscrossed like the struts in the Eiffel Tower-but each strut's walls are only about 10 nanometers thick.

Without Greer's method, building something like this is impossible. She shows me a sample that came about from an earlier collaboration with researchers at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, who are producing materials with larger, microscale trusses. It's made out of nickel and looks somewhat like a metal scouring sponge. When she lets it drift onto my palm, I can barely feel it touch down, and the subversion of expectations is confusing. This metal is, literally, lighter than a feather. It could make for ultralight thermal insulation-an application her HRL colleagues are pursuing.

The featherweight nickel shows the promise of architectural control in making new materials with weird properties. But it's also a reminder of how far Greer has to go in scaling up her methods: so far, she can't make enough of the nanostructured materials to cover your palm.

Greer is determined to use her nanofabrication methods for a variety of materials, and a long list of collaborators are interested in their unusual properties. She can space the nanoscale walls in light-emitting materials or thermal insulation to precisely control the flow of light or heat. She's working with two battery makers to use her nanostructures to study electrochemistry. And she is teaming with biologists to see whether the nanostructured ceramic could serve as a scaffold for growing bones-such as the tiny ones in the ear whose degeneration is one cause of deafness.

In hopes of making such applications feasible, she is working to speed up the high-resolution laser-printing process. Greer has a six-millimeter-square fleck of the nanostructured ceramic she made last year. It is about as thick as a sheet of paper but took about a week to make. "For us to do scientific experiments, we don't need a large amount," she says. "The question now is: how do you scale this?"

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Razer's Razer Blade Pro has been the company's go-to high-end machine for gamers wanting a desktop replacement, and the company has tweaked its high-end configuration for 2017. The jumps aren't huge, but the new system will offer a Kaby Lake Core i7-7820HQ (2.9GHz base, 3.9GHz Turbo) as opposed to the older i7-6820HQ (2.7GHz base, 3.6GHz Turbo). It also ships with DDR4-2667 instead of DDR4-2133.

The other major claim to fame for this laptop is its support for THX. To achieve that, the Razer Blade Pro had to meet certain standards for color resolution, color accuracy, and video playback (on the video side). The audio jack on the Razer Blade Pro also had to be certified for THX, which means conforming to that standard's guidelines for crosstalk, distortion, frequency response, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).

As for the rest of the features, the Razer Blade Pro comes with a GTX 1080, a 17.3-inch IGZO 4K display with G-Sync support, multiple SSD storage options (all, however, appear to be RAID 0), 32GB of DDR4, and Ethernet and wireless support provided by Killer Wireless. Thunderbolt 3 and 3x USB 3.0 ports are also included, as is an SDXC reader. The only downside, inevitably, is the price. With a price tag starting at $4,000, you're definitely staring down the barrel of some very expensive hardware.

Razer claims that you can overclock the CPU core to 4.3GHz by enabling "High Performance Mode," but we're dubious of how well this will work in practice. In a mobile form factor, overclocking a laptop part is more likely to lead to sustained throttling with minimal long-term performance boosts compared with running a longer time at a lower turbo clock. We're not saying Razer's solution doesn't work, but boutique laptops often advertise aggressive specs for clock speeds they can't actually reach or can only hold for very short periods of time.

It's also worth noting that Razer is putting a substantial premium on this hardware, even relative to other boutiques. The Razer Blade is $1,900 for a base 14-inch laptop, when other hardware is available from mainstream manufacturers like Asus or MSI with similar specs for significantly less money. Razer may claim features like THX compatibility, but I'd frankly recommend waiting for hardware reviews before paying this much for a laptop. At an estimated 7.69 pounds, this isn't exactly a lightweight system, either. That's not bad for a desktop replacement, but it's more "transportable" than "portable" by modern standards.

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Against the backdrop of health care reform and a controversial medical device tax, medical technology companies are focusing more than ever on products that deliver cheaper, faster, more efficient patient care. They are also making inroads with U.S. Food & Drug Administration regulators to re-engineer the complex review and approval process for new medical devices.

Many in the industry have long felt overly burdened by what they consider to be an unnecessarily complex approval process. Critics claim it impedes innovation and delays the availability of better health care. To change that perception, the FDA last year announced a new Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) charged with simplifying the process of designing and testing new technologies. With input from industry, government, and other nonprofit organizations, public-private MDIC will prioritize the regulatory science needs of the medical device community and fund projects to streamline the process.

"By sharing and leveraging resources, MDIC may help industry to be better equipped to bring safe and effective medical devices to market more quickly and at a lower cost," says Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

As the regulators, politicians, and corporate executives hash out these details, industry engineers and scientists continue to push through new ideas for improving and managing human health. Every year, industry observers like the Cleveland Clinic and the medical device trade press single out their favorite technology trends. These thought leaders agree that today's best technologies strike a balance between reducing the overall cost of medical care and increasing safety and survival rates-and isn't that what health care reform is all about?

Here are five emerging technologies to watch in the year ahead-and please visit AABME.org for up-to-the-minute developments on the field of bioengineering.

1. Cutting Back on Melanoma Biopsies

With the most deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, a huge number of dangerous-looking moles are actually harmless, but has always been impossible to know for sure without an invasive surgical biopsy. Today dermatologists have new help in making the right call - a handheld tool approved by the FDA for multispectral analysis of tissue morphology. The MelaFind optical scanner is not for definitive diagnosis but rather to provide additional information a doctor can use in determining whether or not to order a biopsy. The goal is to reduce the number of patients left with unnecessary biopsy scars, with the added benefit of eliminating the cost of unnecessary procedures. The MelaFind technology (MELA Sciences, Irvington, NY) uses missile navigation technologies originally paid for the Department of Defense to optically scan the surface of a suspicious lesion at 10 electromagnetic wavelengths. The collected signals are processed using heavy-duty algorithms and matched against a registry of 10,000 digital images of melanoma and skin disease.

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2. Electronic Aspirin

For people who suffer from migraines, cluster headaches, and other causes of chronic, excruciating head or facial pain, the "take two aspirins and call me in the morning" method is useless. Doctors have long associated the most severe, chronic forms of headache with the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG), a facial nerve bundle, but haven't yet found a treatment that works on the SPG long-term. A technology under clinical investigation at Autonomic Technologies, Inc., (Redwood City, CA) is a patient-powered tool for blocking SPG signals at the first sign of a headache. The system involves the permanent implant of a small nerve stimulating device in the upper gum on the side of the head normally affected by headache. The lead tip of the implant connects with the SPG bundle, and when a patient senses the onset of a headache, he or she places a handheld remote controller on the cheek nearest the implant. The resulting signals stimulate the SPG nerves and block the pain-causing neurotransmitters.

3. Needle-Free Diabetes Care

Diabetes self-care is a pain-literally. It brings the constant need to draw blood for glucose testing, the need for daily insulin shots and the heightened risk of infection from all that poking. Continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are today's best options for automating most of the complicated daily process of blood sugar management - but they don't completely remove the need for skin pricks and shots. But there's new skin in this game. Echo Therapeutics (Philadelphia, PA) is developing technologies that would replace the poke with a patch. The company is working on a transdermal biosensor that reads blood analytes through the skin without drawing blood. The technology involves a handheld electric-toothbrush-like device that removes just enough top-layer skin cells to put the patient's blood chemistry within signal range of a patch-borne biosensor. The sensor collects one reading per minute and sends the data wirelessly to a remote monitor, triggering audible alarms when levels go out of the patient's optimal range and tracking glucose levels over time.

4. Robotic Check-Ups

A pillar of health reform is improving access to the best health care for more people. Technology is a cost-effective and increasingly potent means to connect clinics in the vast and medically underserved rural regions of the United States with big city medical centers and their specialists. Telemedicine is well established as a tool for triage and assessment in emergencies, but new medical robots go one step further-they can now patrol hospital hallways on more routine rounds, checking on patients in different rooms and managing their individual charts and vital signs without direct human intervention. The RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot produced jointly by iRobot Corp. and InTouch Health is the first such autonomous navigation remote-presence robot to receive FDA clearance for hospital use. The device is a mobile cart with a two-way video screen and medical monitoring equipment, programmed to maneuver through the busy halls of a hospital.

5. A Valve Job with Heart

The Sapien transcatheter aortic valve is a life-saving alternative to open-heart surgery for patients who need new a new valve but can't endure the rigors of the operation. Manufactured by Edwards Life Sciences (Irvine, CA), the Sapien has been available in Europe for some time but is only now finding its first use in U.S. heart centers-where it is limited only to the frailest patients thus far. The Sapien valve is guided through the femoral artery by catheter from a small incision near the grown or rib cage. The valve material is made of bovine tissue attached to a stainless-steel stent, which is expanded by inflating a small balloon when correctly placed in the valve space. A simpler procedure that promises dramatically shorter hospitalizations is bound to have a positive effect on the cost of care.
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2016 was a year many would rather forget. From the never-ending stream of bad news to a brutal election that seemed like it would never end to the dozens of celebrities - including a few in the tech world - that passed on, it was a tough year.

But 2016 also had its share of important technological breakthroughs that changed how we live, work, and play. Virtual reality made a big comeback in 2016 and is sure to get even hotter this year. Virtual assistants moved out of our cell phones and into our homes, and smart home technologies may have finally broken through to the mainstream.

So what do we expect in the new year? There's a myriad of tech trends we're watching that will change the world once again in 2017; here's the top five you should keep an eye on.

Internet of Things (and the Death of the Hub)

The Internet of Things has been on just about everybody's list for years. So why hasn't it caught on? The issue lies in interoperability. In theory, the IoT is supposed to connect all our devices together, making them sing in a glorious technological harmony. Thing is, we're not at that point yet - at least in a usable manner, and in a way that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out.

We'll use the smart home as an example here. Much of the work in the past several years has revolved around the idea of a "smart hub," in layman's terms a souped-up wireless router with extra communications technologies built in. But ask any smart home system owner, and they'll tell you it's not a perfect solution.

A multitude of wireless technologies now exist to serve your smart home needs - Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and more. And there's more smart home platforms to consider than ever before too - Wink, SmartThings, Iris by Lowe's, even systems from security providers like ADT and big brands like Comcast. While centralization in theory should make things easier, it's made it worse.

Smart home tech may have finally broken through to the mainstream.

Some smart home gadgets won't work with certain smart home platforms - for example, your Philips Hue lights won't work with your Iris by Lowe's system (likely a business decision as Lowe's doesn't carry the Hue product line). Plus if your smart hub goes down, your entire system typically goes with it.

Expect a refocus this year when it comes to smart homes. Wi-Fi is a tested and true wireless networking technology, and routers are serving up ever larger amounts of bandwidth, so there's plenty of space to handle your connected home. Also, new smart home devices are choosing Wi-Fi to maximize compatibility.

Instead of using a centralized hub, device manufacturers will focus on interoperability between themselves. This might have the consequence of shrinking the number of directly compatible devices, but it may not matter. Ither technologies can take the place of the hub, and likely do a better job of it.

IFTTT can connect those devices in any way you see fit, and Amazon's Alexa and Google Home can control them by voice. The hub just isn't necessary anymore, and that might be a good thing.

AI and Automation, Everywhere

Automation is nothing new - at least on the business side. Our experiences with automated technologies primarily comes in the form of those pesky automated customer service systems we're forced to call every time we need help. But it's only going to get more commonplace this year.

Automated customer service won't go away, but it will get better. At the same time, online customer service will be automated as well, thanks to better AI and chatbots that understand context a whole lot better than ever before.

More and more jobs will also be automated - even journalist's work on writing the news (don't worry, we aren't going anywhere). We'll also see smart devices gain from increased automation, learning your patterns and preferences without you needing to tell them and making better and more accurate suggestions and recommendations.

Here's one interesting area to watch: fast food. 2016 saw a lot of talk of removing the human component from food service; will self-serve kiosks make an appearance in the year ahead? On top of that, automated drone delivery should also see wider-scale testing by the end of the year - especially by Amazon.

Are there negatives? Of course. We've heard complaints for a long time about the lack of interpersonal communication these days. And jobs may be lost as a result of the move away from humans. No doubt, the discussion surrounding how far we'll let automation run our lives will only get louder in the New Year.

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We say it every year, but technology moves forward at a breakneck pace. Whether it's being applied to consumer-facing products today or research that'll take hold in the years to come, 2016 had its fair share of industry-shaking technology advances.

Interestingly, a bunch of the crazy forward-thinking tech that has been announced in the past couple of years actually came to life this year, which is sometimes even more exciting than whatever eccentric new idea Elon Musk has. Either way, this has once again been a big year for technology.

From batteries to space rockets, here are the 10 best technology advances of 2016:

10. The first 1TB SD card

I still remember when the first 1TB USB flash drives were coming out-it wasn't so many years ago. The fact that we can now stuff that same storage capacity in a tiny SD card is truly mind-boggling. We don't quite know the price yet, but it won't be cheap.

The SanDisk 512MB SD card currently goes for $345, so expect it to be significantly more than that. Storage capacity is one of those categories that is just constantly innovating and pushing forward with more and more storage in smaller packages for cheaper prices.

9. First Amazon package delivered by drone

Here's the first on the list of previously announced tech that is actually coming to life for the first time. Amazon first introduced the idea of completely autonomous drone delivery back in 2013 with a cutesy video that seemed straight out of a science fiction novel.

But now, Amazon has announced that it's actually completed its first delivery through its Prime Air service. From "click to delivery" it was a total of 13 minutes, which is crazy fast. You can check the video out above yourself, but the fast delivery speed was made possible thanks to Amazon's autonomous drones and a nearby warehouse just outside of town.

8. A breakthrough in lithium-metal batteries could double efficiency

Based out of MIT, a SolidEnergy Systems has developed a "anode-free" lithium metal battery that could change the game in terms of battery efficiency. Researchers have known that these kinds of batteries are more efficient, but their tendency to explode kept them at bay. These new batteries are twice as energy dense, meaning you get the same amount of juice from a battery that's half the size-and SolidEnergy even figured out that exploding problem.

The immediate implications for devices like smartphones and smartwatches are a no-brainer. SolidEnergy demonstrated this last year with its working prototype in an iPhone 6 that was half the size as the standard lithium-ion battery, but provided even more power. The company is now using them in drones, which will be the precursor to its move into smartphones and eventually electric cars.

7. Hyperloop one begins actual high speed test

Hyperloop is Elon Musk's dream to see high-speed transportation transformed in America. The idea, originally published Musk's white paper, is for a mag-lev train going from Los Angeles to San Francisco that could take you there in just 35 minutes.

Up until this Spring, the company had laid some tracks, but never actually done something in real life with the technology. While this test they did was nowhere near 750mph, it did demonstrate some of the capabilities of the open-air propulsion system, sending a test sled 100 yards down a track at 2.5Gs of acceleration. The company wants it to be passenger-ready by 2021, which still feels incredibly ambitious less than five years from today.

6. Carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon for the first time

The tech industry runs on silicon semiconductors. They call it Silicon Valley for a reason. While carbon nanotube transistors have always been seen as the next major step in computational technology, until now it has always significantly underperformed compared to its silicon semiconductor competitors.

These tiny, single atom cylinders of carbon have the potential to power electronics with longer battery life and faster processing speeds-and now that's finally being realized. Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully achieved currents that are 1.9 times faster than silicon semiconductors. Scientists are calling it the fulfillment of a nanotechnology dream twenty years in the making.

5. Dust-sized sensors that can be implanted within the body

This might sound really creepy at first, but the technology made possible through it is endless. Engineers from Berkeley have created these sensors, which they call "neural dust." Both commercial and medical implications of such a small sensor are exciting.

Essentially, these micro-sized sensors require no power and can be implanted directly onto a nerve or muscle fiber. The technology could power the health-monitoring Fitbits of the future, or even help treat diseases such as epilepsy and internal inflammation by "stimulating" nerves and muscles.

4. SolarCity opens Buffalo facility, Tesla opens Gigafactory 1

Elon Musk is a man with a plan. No really-he calls it the "The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan," which just happens to include saving us from our dependence on "mine and burn" energy. He's the man behind both SolarCity and Tesla (which have now officially come together under the Telsa roof as of August) and is now opening two major production facilities under the banner of each company.

First is the Buffalo SolarCity facility, which will become the biggest producer of solar panels in this hemisphere and completed construction this year. Second is the Gigafactory 1 opening up in Nevada, which is responsible for producing lithium-ion batteries, as well as Telsa motors. The significant thing is that Musk practices what the preaches: both facilities are powered by renewable energy sources with the goal of achieving net-zero energy. These facilities will not only power the all-important companies that they serve, but could also be the future of what American production looks like.

3. Eternal nano-structured data recording

This one is going to require some imagination, but try to wrap your mind around the technology that is being advanced here. Using nano-structured glass, scientists have developed a way to both record and retrieve digital data in 5D. The idea here is that long after humanity is gone, this data could potentially be stored and retrieved.

So far, they've gone as far as writing documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton's Opticks, Magna Carta, and Kings James Bible. How is it eternal though? Well-here are the specs of this eternal data: 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000 degrees Celsius and an almost unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190 degrees Celsius). It's been called the "Superman memory crystal," which isn't far off.

2. SpaceX landed a rocket vertically in the ocean

Though it's now the second time SpaceX has landed one of its rockets, Musk's commercial space company successfully landed the Falcon 9 in the ocean. After four failed attempts throughout the year where the rocket exploded upon its landing, it was beginning to look like SpaceX had finally reached a serious hurdle.

These ocean landings are harder than a normal ground landing, mostly because it's a small target, but are much more efficient fuel and cost-wise. In the end, efficiency is really what all these landings are about, since most rockets are either destroyed or lost post-launch as of now. These reusable rockets could end up being the factor that paves the way to affordable commercial space flight.

1. Google's Tensor Processing Unit Pushes Machine Learning, Beats Go Champion

Artificial intelligence has another notch on its belt against humans. First it was chess, now it's Go. But the real story here isn't just a computer that can beat the world champion in humanity's most strategic game-it's the tensor processing unit (TPU) and Machine Learning. The TPU is an application-specific chip that Google has created for the specific purpose of accelerating machine learning.

The company has proven once again that it's all-in on artificial intelligence and developing machine learning that keeps getting better. The particular computer that beat the Go champion was developed by DeepMind, an AI company Google acquired back in 2014. But the TPU is only a tool for Google's big picture strategy.

At the press event in which the Google Pixel smartphone was announced, CEO Sundar Pichai spent nearly half the event talking about the Google Assistant, a conversational, machine learning-powered assistant. What we're talking about here is computers that can do things beyond what they were explicitly programmed to do. There are plenty of reasons to be afraid of that, but also plenty of reasons to be excited about the possibilities.

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Personally, I'm amazed at the technology we have available to us. It's astounding to have the power to retrieve almost any information and communicate in a thousand different ways using a device that fits in your pocket.

There's always something new on the horizon, and we can't help but wait and wonder what technological marvels are coming next.

The way I see it, there are seven major tech trends we're in store for in 2017. If you're eyeing a sector in which to start a business, any of these is a pretty good bet. If you're already an entrepreneur, think about how you can leverage these technologies to reach your target audience in new ways.
1. IoT and Smart Home Tech.
We've been hearing about the forthcoming revolution of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and resulting interconnectedness of smart home technology for years. So what's the holdup? Why aren't we all living in smart, connected homes by now? Part of the problem is too much competition, with not enough collaboration-there are tons of individual appliances and apps on the market, but few solutions to tie everything together into a single, seamless user experience. Now that bigger companies already well-versed in uniform user experiences (like Google, Amazon, and Apple) are getting involved, I expect we'll see some major advancements on this front in the coming year.
2. AR and VR.
We've already seen some major steps forward for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology in 2016. Oculus Rift was released, to positive reception, and thousands of VR apps and games followed. We also saw Pokémon Go, an AR game, explode with over 100 million downloads. The market is ready for AR and VR, and we've already got some early-stage devices and tech for these applications, but it's going to be next year before we see things really take off. Once they do, you'll need to be ready for AR and VR versions of practically everything-and ample marketing opportunities to follow.
3. Machine Learning.
Machine learning has taken some massive strides forward in the past few years, even emerging to assist and enhance Google's core search engine algorithm. But again, we've only seen it in a limited range of applications. Throughout 2017, I expect to see machine learning updates emerge across the board, entering almost any type of consumer application you can think of, from offering better recommended products based on prior purchase history to gradually improving the user experience of an analytics app. It won't be long before machine learning becomes a kind of "new normal," with people expecting this type of artificial intelligence as a component of every form of technology.
4. Automation.
Marketers will be (mostly) pleased to learn that automation will become a bigger mainstay in and throughout 2017, with advanced technology enabling the automation of previously human-exclusive tasks. We've had robotic journalists in circulation for a couple of years now, and I expect it won't be long before they make another leap into more practical types of articles. It's likely that we'll start seeing productivity skyrocket in a number of white-collar type jobs-and we'll start seeing some jobs disappear altogether. When automation is combined with machine learning, everything can improve even faster, so 2017 has the potential to be a truly landmark year.
5. Humanized Big Data. (visual, empathetic, qualitative)
Big data has been a big topic for the past five years or so, when it started making headlines as a buzzword. The idea is that mass quantities of gathered data-which we now have access to-can help us in everything from planning better medical treatments to executing better marketing campaigns. But big data's greatest strength-its quantitative, numerical foundation-is also a weakness. In 2017, I expect we'll see advancements to humanize big data, seeking more empathetic and qualitative bits of data and projecting it in a more visualized, accessible way.
6. Physical-Digital Integrations.
Mobile devices have been slowly adding technology into our daily lives. It's rare to see anyone without a smartphone at any given time, giving us access to practically infinite information in the real-world. We already have things like site-to-store purchasing, enabling online customers to buy and pick up products in a physical retail location, but the next level will be even further integrations between physical and digital realities. Online brands like Amazon will start having more physical products, like Dash Buttons, and physical brands like Walmart will start having more digital features, like store maps and product trials.
7. Everything On-Demand.
Thanks to brands like Uber (and the resulting madness of startups built on the premise of being the "Uber of ____"), people are getting used to having everything on demand via phone apps. In 2017, I expect this to see this develop even further. We have thousands of apps available to us to get rides, food deliveries, and even a place to stay for the night, but soon we'll see this evolve into even stranger territory.

Anyone in the tech industry knows that making predictions about the course of technology's future, even a year out, is an exercise in futility. Surprises can come from a number of different directions, and announced developments rarely release as they're intended.

Still, it pays to forecast what's coming next so you can prepare your marketing strategies (or your budget) accordingly. Whatever the case may be, it's still fun to think about everything that's coming next.

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Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow?

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S hortly after walking through the door at , a Chinese startup valued at roughly a billion dollars, I see my face, unshaven and looking a bit jet-lagged, flash up on a large screen near the entrance.

Having been added to a database, my face now provides automatic access to the building. It can also be used to monitor my movements through each room inside. As I tour the offices of Face++ (pronounced "face plus plus"), located in a suburb of Beijing, I see it appear on several more screens, automatically captured from countless angles by the company's software. On one screen a video shows the software tracking 83 different points on my face simultaneously. It's a little creepy, but undeniably impressive.

Over the past few years, computers have become incredibly good at recognizing faces, and the technology is expanding quickly in China in the interest of both surveillance and convenience. Face recognition might transform everything from policing to the way people interact every day with banks, stores, and transportation services.

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Technology from Face++ is already being used in several popular apps. It is possible to transfer money through Alipay, a mobile payment app used by more than 120 million people in China, using only your face as credentials. Meanwhile, Didi, China's dominant ride-hailing company, uses the Face++ software to let passengers confirm that the person behind the wheel is a legitimate driver. (A "liveness" test, designed to prevent anyone from duping the system with a photo, requires people being scanned to move their head or speak while the app scans them.)

The technology figures to take off in China first because of the country's attitudes toward surveillance and privacy. Unlike, say, the United States, China has a large centralized database of ID card photos. During my time at Face++, I saw how local governments are using its software to identify suspected criminals in video from surveillance cameras, which are omnipresent in the country. This is especially impressive-albeit somewhat dystopian-because the footage analyzed is far from perfect, and because mug shots or other images on file may be several years old.

Paying With Your Face

Breakthrough Face recognition technology that is finally accurate enough to be widely used in financial transactions and other everyday applications.

Why It Matters The technology offers a secure and extremely convenient method of payment but could raise privacy concerns.

Facial recognition has existed for decades, but only now is it accurate enough to be used in secure financial transactions. The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition because it makes a computer zero in on the facial features that will most reliably identify a person (see " 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Deep Learning ").

"The face recognition market is huge," says Shiliang Zhang, an assistant professor at Peking University who specializes in machine learning and image processing. Zhang heads a lab not far from the offices of Face++. When I arrived, his students were working away furiously in a dozen or so cubicles. "In China security is very important, and we also have lots of people," he says. "Lots of companies are working on it."

Employees simply show their face to gain entry to the company's headquarters.

One such company is Baidu, which operates China's most popular search engine, along with other services. Baidu researchers have published papers showing that their software rivals most humans in its ability to recognize a face. In January, the company proved this by taking part in a TV show featuring people who are remarkably good at identifying adults from their baby photos. Baidu's system outshined them.

Face++ pinpoints 83 points on a face. The distance between them provides a means of identification.

Now Baidu is developing a system that lets people pick up rail tickets by showing their face. The company is already working with the government of Wuzhen, a historic tourist destination, to provide access to many of its attractions without a ticket. This involves scanning tens of thousands of faces in a database to find a match, which Baidu says it can do with 99 percent accuracy.

Jie Tang, an associate professor at Tsinghua University who advised the founders of Face++ as students, says the convenience of the technology is what appeals most to people in China. Some apartment complexes use facial recognition to provide access, and shops and restaurants are looking to the technology to make the customer experience smoother. Not only can he pay for things this way, he says, but the staff in some coffee shops are now alerted by a facial recognition system when he walks in: "They say, 'Hello, Mr. Tang.'"

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But 2017 is almost here, and we're expecting a bunch of cool new products. Below you'll find the most important gadgets likely to launch next year.

Keep in mind this isn't a comprehensive list, and it doesn't account for the surprises we'll likely see in 2017. But these are the gadgets we think you should be the most excited about.

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