WIRED Next Fest

Combining the spirit of a 19th-century World's Fair with a 22nd-century techno-geek mindset, WIRED magazine brought the future to present-day Chicago with this past summer's second annual WIRED NextFest. Cloned cats, optical camouflage, and bionic prosthetic limbs were only a few of the 100 show-and-tell marvels on display. -Annette Ferrara