30 Weird But Brilliant Inventions. These Are Absolutely Genius.

We get it. You feel like all the science fiction of yesteryear promised you a future of flying cars and hoverboards, and none of it has come to pass. The system is called Eliodomestico and is similar to a moka coffee machine upside down, where the upper part is filled with salt water, which evaporates with solar energy and is pushed towards the bottom of the furnace through a capacitor to be then collected with a plate that is extracted from the bottom.

Right now it costs around $20-30 million to blast off and chill at the International Space Station, or $200,000 for a sub-orbital spaceflight from Virgin Galactic But the market is growing faster than most realize: within five years, companies like Space Island , Galactic Suite , and Orbital Technologies may realize their company missions, with space tourism packages ranging from $10,000 up-and-backs to $1 million five-night stays in an orbiting hotel suite.

Inventions in the 1920's Fact 23: 1924 - Earth inductor compass: Timeline: The Earth inductor compass, that provided pilots with a more stable and reliable reference instrument, was designed by Morris Titterington in 1924. This device was invented by an Italian named Edoardo Stroppiana, and comes equipped with a 5-megapixel camera that can also shoot 1080p video.

Lockheed Martin is working on just that in the HULC exoskeleton, "a completely un-tethered, hydraulic-powered anthropomorphic exoskeleton that provides users with the ability to carry loads of up to 200 pounds for extended periods of time and over all terrains.

It was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak, Jr., a consulting scientist at General Electric Company in Syracuse, New York. Hydrogen-powered cars have been a rumor for years, perhaps even decades, but now Toyota is leading the way with the first ever ultimate tech commercially available hydrogen-powered car, the Toyota Mirai.

The Lupo was sold in Europe from 1998 to 2005 but, once again, automakers prevented it from coming to market; they claimed Americans had no interest in small, fuel-efficient cars. Cool Contour Recovery Wraps, released to the marketplace in 2015, use a water-activated evaporative cooling technology to accelerate recovery before and after injury.

It has a flight time of three minutes, and comes with a power bank that recharges it in 30 minutes. Here are some science-fiction like technologies and inventions that some companies brought to life in today's time. Inventions in the 1920's Fact 13: 1921 - Band-Aid: Timeline: The convenient dressing with adhesive tape was invented by Earle Dickson in 1921.