Companies like Monsanto are investing in tech that can monitor soil quality or climatic shifts with remarkable levels of precision.
Of course there's also the usual cast of monosyllabic fighting machines, tenuous plot and unrealistic satellite tech that can pick out individual beards from deep space.
But looking at tech that can truly save lives, it is autonomous driving.
In that case you may want a device like the $100 DVD Xpress from ADS Tech that can send video from your VCR up a USB cable to your PC.
The pure excitement of tech that can be found at San Francisco meetups is much more muted here.
The team built its own voice recognition tech that can distinguish between speakers, making for pretty clean transcripts that aren't always perfect but are still very usable.
At Lifeline, we have recently really shifted from investing in games into investing in enabling AR/VR tech that can be used in games".
Onan also offers virtualization tech that can port old games for systems like the Sega Genesis and NeoGeo to new platforms.
Privacy considerations are an issue with any tracking tech that can be used to keep tabs on people as well as insentient things.
Meet (yet) another gizmo aiming to convert dumb old school technology into smarter connected tech that can be controlled via a smartphone.
