
Bionic fingers and surgically-switched fingerprints. Dark matter in Minnesota, and "VSS Enterprise" space-tourist test flights. The future, my friends, is here on PopSci.com.
(Get the details, and win the t-shirt, after the jump).
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You never know what the future's going to turn up next. We'll keep you posted, of course. And we'll keep you well dressed...
(Wanna win a t-shirt?)

Leave a comment (any comment) to put your name in the pile; we'll randomly choose and announce our winner right here next Friday, December 18. And, if you just can't wait that long, you can buy the shirt for yourself here. Good Luck!
Congratulations to last week's winner, PopSci user "Offbeat."
Until next time. Enjoy our past weekly illustrated roundups here.
The incredible innovations, like drone swarms and perpetual flight, bringing aviation into the world of tomorrow. Plus: today's greatest sci-fi writers predict the future, the science behind the summer's biggest blockbusters, a Doctor Who-themed DIY 'bot, the organs you can do without, and much more.


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All I have to say is, I want that shirt!!!
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I gave my hoody to a homeless guy on the subway last night. Karma owes me a shirt at least, right? please?
I'm from Minnesota!
This is your best shirt yet! I definetly want this one!
Agreed on the quality of the shirt, probably because I love the VSS Enterprise. Shirt Please!
i think you would deffo need rubber gloves if you wanted to wash up with those hands! They look so cool!
So many greedy people just want the shirt. I love the graphic because it displays technology that is long-awaited.
If only NASA would use a spaceplane like the one pictured here instead of an energy-wasting rocket that has to overcome gravity instead of using inertia to carry it to altitude before it used that same inertia plus a small push to send it out into space.
Touch-sensitive "skin" for amputees is very important so they don't crush delicate things when they pick them up with their prosthetic.
Ih the crazy stuff going on nowadays. I wonder how an amputee would do fingerprinting?
This shirt is awesome!
i hope i get this shirt. i have been walking around for the last month shirtless. i cant go in most stores :-(
I am Hands from the future and want to watch Star Trek!
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electrolyzer - I'm sure NASA have their reasons for everything they do....
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Sweet tee! 4% chance of getting it for free.
this shirt is the steve mcqueen of tshirts
Free tee for me, please.
Okay, two things. One wicked cool science happened this week! And two, I really want this t-shirt!
The Dome Diva
All the world is a stage and I get to play with it.
This tee is pretty crazy
This isn't where I parked my car
how do randomly choose the winner?
I also want the shirt please.
Ooo I would love a T-shirt, especially one displaying SpaceShipTwo
karma won't give to those who want selfishly...
but yeah, this shirt is actually pretty cool...and thanks Popsci fer giving me articles so I can use them for my school articles to pass science!
Technology from the Future for People of Today!
That is what Popular Science is all about...
although the amount of articles per week seemed to decreased...
nice tshirt
i like this one
My precious
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If I had this tshirt, I could get rid of the red one and stop getting killed on trivial planetary excursions.
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i'm pretty sure i want that shirt.
If you send me a shirt I will use it to provide myself with warmth buy burning it after i wear it once, that's being green.
that's cool there is no way to delete comments so by buy i meant by, but no, I will just look like a fool because there is no edit button!
this might just be the coolest shirt ever.
Trying
Sounds like something off GATTACA
Looks dank
this looks awesome!
Bionic hands and the USS Enterprise from Virgin Galactic, what more could you ask for in a t-shirt?
wow the technology is amazing!!! I really like it. And the shirt is really eye catching itll be cool when other people want to learn what the shirt says
Geez if you really just want the shirt just make a screenshot and send it to someone that can do silkscreen.
So apparently WIMPs are only part of the matter. Who knew?
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i want this too
give me this shirt
or ill eat dirt
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if i don't get it i'll b sad
i will probably cry
til the day i die
this shirt isn't bad
if i don't get it i'll b sad
i will probably cry
til the day i die
you typed it twice lol
ED is bad..
I want a shirt!
I would like this shirt!
Best design so far for a PopSci shirt. Good work!
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Hmmm, These just might be my favorite articles on the popular science website. There's a lot of crazy stuff people are researching and discovering these days.
[insert witty rhyming jingle involving the possession of a T-shirt] :P
I will throw my hat in on this contest.
--GTO--
Nice shirt. Nice articles. Man... just place nice all around. Thank you for being nice.
*plain
Too late for a free tshirt?
Ooh I want that T-shirt, but I'm not sure if I'm too late.
A shirt for a comment? That seems like a fair trade.
Isodomon, you're our winner! The holidays are officially off to a good start. I'll email you today for your stats and address and get this in the mail.
Since someone asked, we choose our winner in a very high tech fashion. I personally rip up a bunch of pieces of paper, write your user names on them, put them in a bag, shake it up, and lean over to my colleague, Paul, who reaches in and pulls one out. And that is our winner.
For those of you whose names remained in the bag this week: don't be dismayed. You can play again! The new contest will be up shortly. You can also always find the latest installment by going to popsci.com/thisweek.
Good luck!
Taylor
PopSci.com