Is a hoverboard-like scooter your transportation mode of choice? Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
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Christopher Lloyd (left) as Dr. Emmett Brown and Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment/AP hide caption
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A woman holds up a tablet to showcase data analytics conducted by IBM's Watson technology. IBM hide caption
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New autopilot features are demonstrated in a Tesla Model S during a Tesla event in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday. Beck Diefenbach/Reuters/Landov hide caption
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Eatsa's first location is in San Francisco's financial district. Its quinoa-based dishes sell for about $7 a bowl. Eatsa hide caption
Thursday
A thermoelectric PowerCard like this one can be used to convert waste heat into an electric power source, Alphabet Energy says. Alphabet Energy hide caption
A Lot Of Heat Is Wasted, So Why Not Convert It Into Power?
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A pedestrian crosses in front of a vehicle as part of a demonstration at Mcity on July 20, on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mich. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption
In Michigan, A Testing Ground For A Future Of Driverless Cars
Thursday
The Naval Posgraduate School's Timothy Chung stands with the unmanned aerial vehicles his team attempted to swarm in May, 2015. That day they were able to launch 20 into a swarm. After a second attempt in July, they got 30. Krista Almanzan/KAZU hide caption
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The Finding Rover app uses facial recognition technology to reunite lost dogs with their owners. Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption
Friday
Former Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, known as Jetman, is the first person to fly a jet-fitted wing. Kamran Jebreili/AP hide caption
Ever Dream You Could Fly? 'Jetman' Has. Let Him Tell You About It
Tuesday
This is a calculated flood map for the city of St. Louis. Water depth goes from deep (dark blue) to shallow (white, light blue). Floodwater can come from the Illinois, Upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers, as well as from heavy local precipitation. Courtesy of Dag Lohmann/Katrisk hide caption
Flood Maps Can Get Much Sharper With A Little Supercomputing Oomph
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Melissa Malzkuhn, director of the Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University, suits up in motion capture to record a nursery rhyme for deaf children. Emma Bowman/NPR hide caption
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The robot from Florida-based Team IHMC Robotics takes a tumble as it tries to walk over rubble. This team came in second place and won a $1 million prize. DARPA Robotics Challenge hide caption
At DARPA Challenge, Robots (Slowly) Move Toward Better Disaster Recovery
Lully wants to put kids' night terrors to rest with calculated vibrations that rouse them from the deep sleep cycle. Courtesy of Lully hide caption
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Robert Gordon and Amy Jones try a virtual reality experiment with NPR's Aarti Shahani. Courtesy of AltspaceVR hide caption