10 Technologies on the Cusp

Technology Review presents 10 technologies you'll soon be hearing about.

1. Peer-to-peer networking as a way for legitimate businesses to handle heavy data streaming.
2. Nanocharging solar, which could make solar power cost-competitive.
3. Artifically structured metamaterials.
4. Personalized medical monitors.
5. Single-cell analysis.

6. Light-focusing optical antennas that could revolutionize data storage.
7. Neutron control—the brain as switchboard.
8. Nanohealing.
9. Compressive sensing; may teach cameras and medical scanners to "see" better.
10. Augmented reality—superimposing digital images over the real world.