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Decent eyeglass displays have been a "just around the corner" tech for going on 20 years, and they're one of the few barriers to making computers much smaller yet. You can only make a laptop as small as its screen and keyboard, after all...
Plenty of prototypes, but nobody's made a computer-resolution production model that sells; they keep making overpriced personal-TV-viewing versions, wondering why they don't sell(which is obvious enough to me -- the use of a tiny TV is limited, while the use of a tiny computer...), and abandoning the market again. With OLED technology they might be a lot more practical now, if anyone was willing to try hard enough to make it sell..
Wireless power supply's a real good one, as in, very badly needed, but I'm not sure I'd call it an advancement of existing technology. Right now we don't know where to begin; beams of energy powerful enough would burn people, too, and fields diminish rapidly with distance, and the power-line-cancer-fearmongers would foam at the mouth. There was an article many moons ago of a potential system utilizing magnetic rather than electromagnetic transmission, over long distances, via resonators tuned to be very inefficient radiators; they seemed to connect via some other electromagnetic effect. But there's been little to nothing about that since, so it may have been another cold fusion.
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