It's nearly 50 years since Robbie the Robot proved the star of the show in B-movie classic Forbidden Planet, but we are only just getting to the point where robots can genuinely walk like human being (as the Guardian and other newspapers are reporting). Sometimes innovation takes a lifetime.
Elsewhere, Red Herring has been running its 100 most innovative companies - "companies that will shape the next year in technology" - and it's got a few interesting constituents.
Voice over Internet, nanotechnology, geolocation, mobile technology, wireless technology and audio books all feature, as well as big hitters like Google, HP, IBM and Sun.
It got me thinking to all those technological promises we've been made by the likes of Tomorrow's World. So what's the biggest innovation you want to see? What was promised that never came true? In 10 years, what would be the one little thing that would make your life better?
