PM: 15 New Tech Concepts For 2006 PM: 15 New Tech Concepts For 2006

Popular Mechanics lists a lot of interesting technologies that are supposed to become available this coming year, including:
- Driver-Monitoring System
- Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
- Metadata - to be used to help searching
- Nanoparticle Batteries (recharge in a minute)
- SPIT (SPam over Internet Telephony)
- Coal Gasification
- Perpendicular Storage - increases HD capacities
- Fiber-To-The-Home
- Blind Spot Detecion (again for your car)
- Mobile VoIP
- Modular Pebble-Bed Nuclear Reactor
- Mobile WiMAX (WiMAX on the road)
- Mobile Satellite Video (again for your car)