PC World has a very interesting article about technologies that we can’t buy, well at least not in the USA.
Imagine a cell phone that offers true TV capabilities, works as your bus/subway/train pass, it links sales to a credit card (wave your cell phone at the register), tells your car where to go, which route has less traffic and which gas station is cheaper, and can even warn you of an impeding disaster like an earthquake. And this is a phone we are talking about here, not a computer you have to carry on your back.
Sounds like science fiction but it is reality at the other side of the world, in Japan. Read the article for more info.