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These onstage demos offer a mind-blowing peek at where technology is taking us. Flying robots, levitating superconductors, brainwave-reading headsets and more …

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Ramesh Raskar

Imaging at a trillion frames per second

10 minutes 44 seconds

Tan Le

A headset that reads your brainwaves

10 minutes 20 seconds

Markus Fischer

A robot that flies like a bird

6 minutes 2 seconds

Manu Prakash

A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami

9 minutes 7 seconds

Sebastian Thrun

Google's driverless car

3 minutes 57 seconds

Boaz Almog

The levitating superconductor

10 minutes 8 seconds

Regina Dugan

From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

24 minutes 44 seconds

Johnny Lee

Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks

5 minutes 20 seconds

Raffaello D'Andrea

The astounding athletic power of quadcopters

15 minutes 54 seconds

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images

7 minutes 16 seconds

Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry

Meet the SixthSense interaction

8 minutes 28 seconds