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Ever heard of bacterial photography—it's not as gross as it sounds—or chaos computing? Neither had we. For this story, we set out to find the coolest technologies that are flying under the radar, and what we found impressed even us.

A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness.