With recent automotive and sexual breakthroughs in technology, we are finally on pace to live in a true blue (neon blue) futuristic society, impending apocalypse be damned.

Mowing the lawn as a child is a rite of passage, passed down through several generations of Americans that prize green, well-trimmed grass more than raising a family To sport the greatest looking lawn is to live out the American Dream; when its condition is less than stellar, you might as well leave town before the neighborhood chases you out.

But wait! Help is on the way - solar-powered robot help.

If you have ever dreamed of a robot tending your garden (I’m sure most of you have), your fantasy is now a reality. Husqvarna has developed a solar powered robot lawn mower (!!!!) that’s virtually silent and can be programmed to mow at your discretion. Once the robot is done the task at hand (it works on a 40-minute charge), it will return to its charge base…on its own.

This is what £2,000 ($4,000) will buy you. Your move, Japan…

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Finally, technology with a point: After decades of waiting (and numerous hints towards its possibility via movies like Barbarella and Woody Allen’s Sleeper) science has taken a bold step forward in sexuality, coming close to controlling the human orgasm.

Dr. Stuart Meloy, a pain specialist in North Carolina, has concocted (be on the lookout for vague sexual innuendos from here on out) the Orgasmatron, a device that can stimulate pleasure through electrodes hitting the right spots. This. Is. Big. News. Read more

I have been waiting with baited breath for something, anything to indicate that the future is indeed now - and finally, that fateful day has come.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Rinspeed sQuba:

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