Google, Apple and Samsung are working on some chilling technology including vein recognition, smart wigs and EYE implants
DID you know that Google has designed a glue that pedestrians will stick to in the case of a crash?
It's just one of the many futuristic – and questionable – inventions created by the biggest names in the industry.
Forget the iPhone and the Galaxy S8, the likes of Apple, Samsung and Sony have a crack team creating devices that could be plucked from science fiction.
But here are some of the strangest.
Sony's smart wig
The Japanese TV giants have designed a wig that can connect to your smartphone which vibrates when you receive calls.
Germ killer
Smartphones are smothered in bacteria, and most of us are guilty of not cleaning them properly.
Microsoft filed a patent in 2011 for an automatic smartphone disinfectant.
It uses a UV light to disinfect the surface.
Squeezable phones
Samsung has designed a squeezy, stretchy phone and filed a patent for it in 2012.
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Vein recognition
Samsung have designed vein recognition tech for its range of smartwatches which can recognise its owner by the pattern on veins on their wrist.
Microphone tattoo
If you can't be bothered to hold your phone while you chat, Motorola filed a patent for a throat tattoo microphone in 2012.
It means the vibrations of your larynx would be sent straight to the handset.
Google's eye implant
Google designed a lens that sits on the surface of the iris, bringing the smartphone menu right onto the eye itself.
Wink, wave and unlock
Apple has been developing technology where a flick of a finger to your ear will answer a call or waving up and down can change the volume.
Similarly, in 2012 Google filed a patent that will allow the front-facing camera to observe and read our expressions.
It would know and recognise us specifically, and we could even unlock it by giving it a wink or a smile.
Google's car glue
A membrane of glue is coated onto the bonnet of cars to ensure that if a pedestrian was struck, they’d stick to the car, so as to catch them rather than strike them down.
Robot skin
HP filed a patent to artificially create the sense of touch for robots - like a robotic skin.
There's been no word on when these technologies will get into our hands.
But the patents, compiled by cash-for-gadgets site musicmagpie.co.uk, were all filed within the past eight years.
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