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Self-Healing Metal Coating
   Imagine a material that can heal itself when scratched, or become more corrosion-resistant, or become self-lubricating.
Digital Billboards Worth Billions
   This part of our science-fictional future I can really live without; you'll pay money for unmarked, non-ad-saturated nature.
Advertising-Funded Cellphone Content
   Free phone service may be coming whether you like it or not. The system depends on it.
Transformer Clothing
   J.G. Ballard wrote about clothing that would do this - but it's been implemented using a more mechanistic technology.
Smart Sign Watches You Drive By
   Advertisers want to get a bit closer to you with these sensor-enhanced digital billboards.
Nanotech Self-Healing Houses
   If a house had the right kind of walls, could it alter enough to heal itself?
Self-Healing Polymer Autonomous Material System
   Autonomous materials may be able to heal themselves without high maintenance costs.
HypoSurface Walls Are Full Of Life
   This remarkable new display surface is a pretty good implementation of a J.G. Ballard idea from the 1960's.
Sensor-Equipped Dress Tells You How She Feels
   This dress communicates more than just a sense of fashion.
'Paranormal State' Ad Billboard Makes You Hear Voices
   Advertisers are now using an 'audio spotlight' to put their message right into your ears.
200,000 Computer-Generated Books
   I don't understand why this guy doesn't take his idea to the logical conclusion.
FLARE Creates 'Skin' For Buildings
   Interesting idea for a flexible, interactive membrane that would allow a building to let air and light in, and let freedom of expression out.
Software Tools Design Anti-Viral Cities
   Can software tools design cities to prevent the spread of disease? J.G. Ballard thought so, and so do modern computer scientists.
Touchy Feely Trigger Point Mouldings
   If you've ever desired a more intimate relationship with the walls of your apartment or business, I've got just the thing for you.
U.S. Winds Slowing Down?
   Sometimes, there's an interesting story in science fiction authors predicting a future - with the opposite result.
555 KUBIK - If A House Was Dreaming
   What would a morphing transforming building that constantly revealed its internal spaces look like?
Nexus One Not Ballardian Free Ad Phone
   J.G. Ballard gave us a very good idea what this would be like in 1963.
Smart Second Skin Dress Interacts With Wearer
   Why be satisfied with that 'inert-wear' that you usually put on in the morning? Why shouldn't you have clothing that interacts with you?
Sound Reactive Nightgown
   An unusual demonstration piece, this garment is very sensitive to noise.
Targeted Audio Ads On Your Cell Phone
   Your cell phone is a radio, after all.
Self-Healing Concrete Uses Bacteria For Healing
   Is it possible that bacteria in buildings could play the role of your body's osteoblast cells - repairing their minor fractures?
Autonomous Adaptive Structure Uses Shape Memory Polymer
   Part of an autonomous adaptive structure created at MIT.
Ad-Supported Free Telephone Calls
   To make a free international call, just listen to a short ad or two. For now.
'Supra B 'Toys Soon Self-Healing
   Toy, heal thyself.
Self-Healing Batteries
   It would be better if our gadgets could simply repair themselves when broken (with video).
Outdoor Testing For Self-Healing Concrete
   'I noticed that curious mottled knots were forming, indicating where the room had been strained and healed faultily.'- J.G. Ballard, 1962.
Protocell Running Shoes Regenerate
   'Clothes are no longer made from dead fibers of fixed color…'- JG Ballard, 1970.
Computer 'Aesop' Writes Fables With A Moral
   'I handed Tony the master tape and he played it into the IBM'- JG Ballard, 1971.
Scheherazade, An Open Story Generator
   'How can you compete with an IBM heavy-duty logomatic analogue?'- JG Ballard, 1971.
Second Skin Clothing By Biologic Changes With You
   'A dress can change its color and texture in a few seconds...' - JG Ballard, 1970.
Smart Clothing From Finland
   'A dress can change its color and texture in a few seconds...' - JG Ballard, 1970.
The Next (Computer) Rembrandt
   A new, Old Master.
Self-Healing Textiles! Say Goodbye To Torn Jeans
   'The constant renewal of the fibers, repairing any faults...' - JG Ballard, 1970.
Eighth Sense Emotion-Responsive Cloak
   'This sensitivity to mood explains the real popularity of bio-fabrics...' - JG Ballard, 1970.
Fluorescent Bacteria Fashion
   'The racks of gowns itched and quivered, their colors running into blurred pools.' - J.G. Ballard, 1970.
Xiaoice AI Now A Poet
   'How can you compete with an IBM heavy-duty logomatic analogue?'- JG Ballard, 1971.
Shelley.ai AI Terrifies Thanks To Reddit's Nosleep
   'How can you compete with IBM?' - JG Ballard, 1971.
Fungi-Infused Concrete Repairs Itself
   'I noticed that curious mottled knots were forming, indicating where the room had been strained and healed faultily.'- J.G. Ballard, 1962.
MXene Hydrogel Skin For Robots Flexes And Senses
   'The plastex swam and whirled like boiling toothpaste...' - JG Ballard, 1962.
Deepfakes From OpenAI GPT-2 Algorithm
   'How can you compete with an IBM heavy-duty logomatic analogue?' - JG Ballard, 1971.
Clothes That Do Photosynthesis
   'Clothes are no longer made from dead fibers of fixed color and texture...' - JG Ballard, 1970
E - Ink's Automatic Self Styling Color-Changing Dress
   'The racks of gowns itched and quivered, their colors running into blurred pools.' - JG Ballard, 1970.
Will ATT Offer Ad-Subsidized Cellphone Service
   'For long-distance calls the ratio of commercial to conversation was as high as 10 to 1...' - JG Ballard, 1963.
Kinetic Buildings And Psychotropic Houses
   'There was a dim whirring, and the spheres tipped and began to rotate...' - JG Ballard, 1962.

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