When I was eight, I drew a picture of what I thought the world would look like in 2012. It was a skyline filled with flying cars and indistinguishable people in blob-shaped spacesuits. With two years to my deadline, I'm not putting a lot of faith in my clairvoyance.

Nonetheless, with the annual CES event wrapping up tonnes of space age gadgetry in Vegas last week, and Hussein Chalayan's technologically-imbued fashions exhibiting at the Design Museum from tomorrow, we've got technology on the mind here at UJ. And here's a rundown of our futuristic favourites...