Edge of Discovery - Special Reports from CNN.com

Around the globe -- and throughout the universe -- innovations are not only creating breakthroughs in technology but changing the way we live our daily lives. Discoveries are expanding how we explore science, technology, medicine and space.

The Discoveries

The home of the future will do some of the thinking for you. Imagine a refrigerator that knows what’s inside and suggests what to cook for dinner. Or devices that let you check in on your family members. Video

• Camera on wheels gives you an extra set of eyes at home

• Car/plane can drive on freeway or fly over it

• Wireless technology will guide medicine of the future

• Winged luxury submarines 'fly' underwater
• Colombian designer's duds will stop real bullets

• Japanese doctors use cuddly robot as therapy for elderly

• Small cameras with wings provide military with eyes in the sky

• Cops help dream up high-tech police car
• Artist uses optical tricks to create 'moving' murals
• Robotics help disabled walk again

• Invention turns cell phone into mobile medical lab
• Floating city could be just three years away
• Adventurer plans 11,000-mile trek on boat made from recycled plastic

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