We all have that one friend who is an absolute tech nerd and we love them for it, even if we go blank when they go into the extreme details of their latest interest.

But when they aren’t around, who do you turn to, to give you the lowdown?

Obviously, we have our guys (and you should definitely be friends with them, too).

They were kind enough to give us a little insight into the future of technology, focusing on inventions that we previously would have deemed fictional.

We took five items out of Dial A Nerd’s list and, thanks to an explanation from them, are able to tell you about them:

Deleting / Replacing memories

For some time, neurologists have known that the brain is not the biological hard drive that we may perceive it to be, with our experiences etched indelibly as memories. Rather, memories are not so much created as recreated, over and over, through a process known as memory reconsolidation.

When an event is recalled, it is essentially recalibrated and refiled in the brain, often (if not always) coloured by the mood and mindset at the time of recall. This is how memories become unreliable. It is also how traumatic memories become less so over time as the initial emotional reaction to the event (the trauma) is adjusted according to the emotional state at the time of recall. This is, of course, particularly effective in guided therapy.

Kind of like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Lightsabers

Yeah, apparently scientists discovered it by mistake:

Yes, really we are close. Scientists “accidentally” created a “photonic molecule“—heretofore thought impossible because photons (particles of light) have no mass. By creating a unique medium in which photons interact strongly with each other (as opposed to passing right through each other, per nature), they were able to get the photons to bond… forming an (as yet subatomic) new form of matter made out of light.

Restoring the Dead

Unlike Jon Snow’s resurrection, this has nothing to do with magic:

In what sounds like the beginning of either one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history or the most horrifying apocalyptic science fiction ever, University of Arizona researcher Peter Rhee has pioneered a process to revive you “when you are at [10 degrees Celsius (50 °F)] with no brain activity, no heartbeat, no blood [and] everyone would agree that you’re dead.”

Invisibility

Rochester University scientists have famously been working on this one for years, first using a series of lenses to bend light around an object. They recently upgraded to a digital version of the same technique, and they are absolutely able to make pretty much any object vanish—but only as an image, viewed on a display in front of the object. Their technique takes a lot of scanning and preparation, a stationary object, and that darn display, which is admittedly not as cool as an actual invisibility cloak. But consider: What if the cloak was made out of displays?

More of an illusion than a reality, it’ll work…for now.

Personal Holograms

Coming soon, to a smartphone near you…

Although the idea of a pocket-sized device that can project holograms might seem very Star Trek-y, several companies have already introduced this concept into existing smartphone technology by using supplemental materials or devices. From pyramid-shaped objects that rest on the screen to film overlays to an actual box that you put your phone into (created by British company Virtual Presence), it’s clear that the mobile industry has an eye toward perfecting this technology—and it looks like researchers at Harvard may have given them something to be plenty excited about.

Okay, I know I provided you absolutely no details, but I am going to leave that to Dial A Nerd to explain, and you can read about them HERE, as well as see a range of other future technologies.

While the above information focuses on future technology, our guys also know a whole lot about IT – some even call them specialists. So, whether it’s business or home solutions you’re after, Dial A Nerd are our go-to guys – and should be yours, too.

[Also, in case you need another reason to trust them, they’ve just landed a Microsoft Partner Award for 2016 for their Cloud solutions, which is a pretty big deal for those in the know.]

At the end of the day, don’t be that person who annoys those mates who work in IT when it’s too late, because a little foresight goes a long way.

[source:dialanerd]