Bizarre Technology from the past, present or future?

[Samantha]

I need an article about an interesting/cool/bizarre technology for my computer application class. It could be from the past, present or even the future (ideas that they are thinking about). Got any ideas? Anything that would shock people (not in an inappropriate way, though)?

 

[DavidD]

Cold Fusion...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Memstors...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvA5r4LtVnc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAHG3COYYA

Ringworld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld

Want to read a really good book on WILD science?
Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Condition/dp/0201567512

 

[john]

brainwave control is interesting - and you can demonstrate it in class if you have a computer with a sound system!
CES (a different approach, connecting electrodes to the head) sounds highly dangerous - shocking!