10 strange inventions that could exist in 10 years

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Predicting the future is hard.

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Not only do you have to imagine what problems we'll be trying to solve; you have to imagine which still-uninvented products will help solve them.

The Institute for the Future, a research organization devoted to providing foresight about the world ahead, thinks it's up to the task.

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Tech Insider spoke with Mark Frauenfelder, one of the IFTF's top research directors, to get a sense of the kinds of products people will use in 2026 that we can't imagine yet.