Welcome to the (possible) future: V&A shows tech's hottest ideas

Museum plans 2018 exhibition, called The Future Starts Here, exploring how groundbreaking technologies could change the world

New technology could allow us to clean up devastating damage to the environment, charge a phone with our clothes and create vast factories in space. But it appears to have its limits: the tedium of laundry, a new exhibition suggests, will still be down to us.

An exhibition next year at the V&A on possibly revolutionary design will include some less successful ideas besides the triumphs - the robot, for instance, programmed to fold towels and taking 15 minutes to do each one. "The robots are coming but they're not coming that quickly," admitted the curator, Rory Hyde.