The Millennium Seed Bank, the largest seed bank in world, is located at the Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, near London, England. So far they have successfully banked over 13% of the world's wild plant species.

3D printing is also known as ‘additive manufacturing’, which as the name suggests, uses additive processes in which layers of materials are successively produced and laid down under computer control.

The moon has over 200 holes, called lunar pits, which could be used to shelter astronauts in the future. The pits range in size from about 16.4ft (5 metres) across to more than 2,953ft (900 metres) in diameter.

One of the most famous examples of wearable tech, Google Glass, was developed by Google X, a facility in California dedicated to technological advancements. It launched in 2013 and featured a touchpad, camera and an LED illuminated display.

Cyborg is short for cybernetic organism. The term was first coined in 1960 when it was used in an article in Astronautics Magazine by scientist and musician Manfred Clynes and medical doctor Nathan S Kline.

Quadrotors are often known as drones. They are often used for military surveillance and reconnaissance, and most recently have been used for parcel delivery and press photography.

Influential American science fiction writer Stanley G Weinbaum’s short story, Pygmalion's Spectacles, is one of the earliest works to explore the concept of virtual reality. Weinbaum has a crater on Mars named after him.

3D printing has become invaluable in medical science, as with the help of MRI scans and X-rays, it’s now possible to map and create original, accurate organ models for use in pre-planning discussions before surgery.

A robot seal called Paro, created in 2004, has been used to help dementia patients in the UK. Used to encourage social behaviour in patients, they are also widely used in their parent country, Japan, and the companion robot has even been used to comfort earthquake victims.

The world's first off-the-shelf undersea residence, developed by US Submarine Structures, is called H2OME. It is made up of two fully-submerged floors and is available to anyone with a multi-million pound budget and a secure piece of the ocean floor to build on.

Ideas around robotic or autonomous cars have been developed since the 1920s, but the first really meaningful versions were unveiled in the 1980s with the Navlab and ALV projects, and the Eureka Prometheus Project of the 1980s and 1990s.