In one vision of the future, the world will have flying cars, coats that make people "transparent," digital cameras that translate foreign signs and robots that can attend classes for sick children.

Millennium Park --Chicago's $475 million ode to its future -- is constantly watched over by rangers on Segways who glide around the park's public art and plazas like hallway monitors from the future.

Wired Magazine's yearly traveling technology shindig, NextFest, plants its roots in NYC this weekend. After starting in San Francisco in 2004 the show finally makes it to NYC. Billed as a WIRED's ...

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If you’re fretting that inventors and scientists have stopped dreaming big dreams, the NextFest exposition in San Francisco last weekend showed that’s just not so. Organized by Wired magazine, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Wired magazine kicked off its NextFest technology show with a laptop singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at a Giants-Phillies game Thursday afternoon. The laptop's singing was pretty ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. For CapitalBop, NEXTfest had become inevitable. The D.C ...