BENGALURU: As the dynamics of the paradigm of technological barriers shift from year to year, 2016 promises a meaningful glimpse into the future could look like. With companies offering greater pushes to make innovative ideas readily accessible to the average person via practical implementations, new technology stars are born and wacky ideas are celebrated.

With that said, here’s a list of the top 8 tech innovations of 2016 as compiled by Ankit Sharma of gizbot.com:

The ‘Hoverboard’

The hoverboard quickly became one of the hottest selling gift items of this past holiday season, with its zany demeanor appealing to the ‘lazy’ in many.

While it is not quite a board that hovers over the ground in the typical sci-fi mainstream manner (and that technology might not be available for a while), it still is a pretty nifty gadget. The ‘hoverboard’ resembles a Segway minus the handle bar, and thus, calling it a 'hoverboard' might be deemed a misnomer. The device though uses numerous gyroscopes to balance the user handling it, and let’s face it, its way cooler than walking.

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