The internet has been abuzz over a secretive June 18th event taking place at 3:30 PM in Los Angeles. The Wrap believes that this event will be to showcase a new Microsoft product in a realm that have astonishingly yet to delve into; a tablet computer.

Microsoft, innovators of the personal computer, have been notably absent from the 202nd decade’s trend of flat, handheld computers. Meanwhile Apple, who has already released three versions of the iPad since 2010, is sitting pretty with a 67 million unit head start on CEO Steve Ballmer and Microsoft.

While the iPad’s CPU, memory, display and dimensions have improved each year, there haven’t been any major leaps towards the nuttier sci-fi breakthroughs we’ve been waiting for. Barring any sensational top secret advancement by Microsoft, their product won’t be much different either.

If you have yet to purchase a tablet, or are still holding onto a first generation model, now may the perfect time to tame your insatiable desires. If you somehow stop yourself, you’ll be handsomely rewarded with some truly revolutionary technology.

Is it unreasonable to think that we can change the world?

Daniel Epstein, founder of the Unreasonable Institute and George Kembel, co-founder of Stanford’s d.school don’t think so. These two modern visionaries have teamed up with acclaimed study abroad program Semester at Sea to offer Unreasonable at Sea to the world. Your chance to be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is closing fast. Applications are only being accepted through June 20th.

Today may be the most important day in the history of the internet. The first ever mass batch of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) and their respective applicants were revealed in London. Several of the biggest names in commerce laid claim to extensions they found beneficial to their brand, or they found to possess a high resale or utility value. This is where things get interesting.

If you have yet to see the video of VW’s “Hover Car Concept”, it’s definitely worth the few minutes. Volkswagen translates to ‘the people’s car’, and the levitating car idea was the result of user submissions.

For the concept to realistically work, it would require electromagnetic strips built into our roads to generate levitation via electromagnetic levitation. VW is not currently in a position to manufacture vehicles like this, though the contest and publicity generated were stellar for the company image.

The idea of a hovercraft or hovercar has been the subject of science fiction for decades, and the way things are heading, it’s not farfetched to think that we could see something like this in the relatively near future. After all, the flying car is here, and so is the self-driving one.

In the 21st century, we’re wired to multitask. Even behind the wheel, we’ll perform as many activities as possible while maintaining a crash risk above 50%. Besides eating and putting on make-up while driving, we want access to a worldwide library of music, we want to hear step by step directions instead of learning the local terrain, and we want to stay connected with friends. We also don’t like clutter. How is all of this possible?

Many of our parents played with mercury as kids and it’s easy to see why. It’s an abundant, shiny, metallic substance that is easily manipulated. Turns out that wasn’t such a good idea. Lucky for us we have science and we have gallium.

Real World New York opened our eyes to a whole new world of reality. Real World London proved that a realer world existed in Europe. Real World Cancun was the realest of them all. In 2023, things are about to get as real as they’re ever been.

It’s not quite an MTV production, but it will make for must-see TV. A Dutch start-up believes they have a feasible model to colonize our friendly neighbor, Mars. Not only that, but via satellite, we’ll be able to watch Mars TV, chronicling the every move of the first ever Marstronauts.

People enjoy random online encounters, if they didn’t, chat rooms wouldn’t have been so huge, and neither would ChatRoulette (though the naked dude thing killed it). The two gentlemen that started the revolutionary music sharing service Napster are looking to capitalize on this apparently inherent human trait.

Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning have taken a concept inspired by ChatRoulette, eliminated the dicks that ruined the experience, and fine tuned the match-making process to connect people worldwide in ways we never imagined. Networking and meeting new people is huge in the 21st century; instead of chance encounters out in public or going to events, Parker and Fanning hope you’ll hop on AirTime to connect with friends of friends, or random people with one of your tens, hundreds or thousands of similar interests.

It seems like just yesterday holograms were a thing of science fiction. Now they’re destined to be a part of our everyday lives. While seemingly being somewhere that you’re not is definitely rad, what are the long term implications? Are we bidding farewell to human interaction forever?

If the last couple of years have told us anything, it’s that there’s some serious cheddar to be made off of deceased celebrities. Only the good die young, and since they’re gone, we need to make holograms of them. A dead Michael Jackson made $170 million last year! It’s not just dead celebrities though, we’re actually creating fictional character holograms as well that can entertain, inspire and guide us. Is there anywhere that this technology won’t penetrate? Here’s a few unbelievable holograms you can soon expect to see in your life.

Byron Buxton

Just a couple of years ago, nobody knew who Stephen Strausburg, Bryce Harper, and Mike Trout were. Now that these young guns are the talk of the league, we’re seeing how bright their star really is. With the 2012 MLB Draft taking place tonight at 7 PM (EST), it’s time to take a deeper look at some of the most incredible future all-stars out there. All of the prospects below are under 20, some have been drafted, while some will go tonight. These are names that aren’t yet known except by the baseball die-hards, but you can definitely expect to be rooting for or against them soon.

The Pitchers-

Dylan Bundy, (Orioles)- The Baltimore Orioles are surprising everyone and having their best season in a decade. Just how good could they be with the addition of one of the top pitching prospects in the game? Just 19 years old, Bundy may already be big league ready. The #1 pick of the 2011 draft only just suffered his first minor league loss last week. He can touch 99 MPH on the radar gun, and has a glistening .68 ERA with 53 strikeouts in 40 innings this season. The Orioles are babying him, but it’ll be tough to keep him down if he keeps performing the way he is.