( CNN ) -- All I want for Christmas is a triple-nipple baby bottle , some extinct goat DNA , and a Mars survival kit . Is that really too much to ask ? Not if you happened to walk past a particular neon-lit convenience store in downtown Brooklyn -- the flashing sign in the window advertising `` Cash for genes . '' Inside the unremarkable 99¢ shop you 'd find the usual assortment of hair accessories , shoelaces , and cleaning products ; the only thing binding them together being their `` Low ! Low ! '' price . But take a closer look and you 'd also discover strange items from the future -- a universal language translator , a liquid cash injection kit , even some spacesuit lining ( for when those bothersome transgenic moths eat through your helmet ) . This is the world according to the Extrapolation Factory -- a group of New York designers using a mixture of expert reports and crowd-sourcing to create products anywhere from 10 to 10,000 years in the future . Made in Brooklyn . Now items from their `` 99c Store of the Future '' -- a one-off installation where space-age objects were sold in an ordinary shop -- has gone on display in China 's first state-run contemporary art gallery . The Shanghai Power Station of Art -- a former power station turned museum overlooking Huangpu River -- last week launched its Design Shanghai 2013 exhibition , showcasing over 500 works from around the world . `` We 're contributing 30 products that came from the 99¢ store -- very peculiar , bespoke future objects , '' said Elliott Montgomery , co-founder of the Extrapolation Factory . `` By putting these ideas out there , we 're pushing the way people think about consumerism far beyond the immediate . It 'll be interesting to see how people 's reactions in Shanghai differ from those in New York City . '' Futuring . The surreal project is part of a growing movement in design called `` Futuring '' -- which as the name suggests , involves creating products for the future . `` The incorporation of futures thinking into the design world has picked up pace hugely since the mid-2000s , '' said Stuart Candy , professor of foresight and design at Ontario College of Art and Design . `` With massive global challenges looming , like climate change , peak oil , and economic volatility , we need to develop a cultural capacity for thinking ahead and creating options -- so we are n't just reacting to crisis after crisis . '' But `` Futuring '' is n't just about developing environmentally-friendly cars or search-and-rescue robots . As the Extrapolation Factory showed , it can also be found in the ordinary 99¢ store down the road , or what Candy describes as `` Guerrilla Futuring . '' `` The 99¢ store project is interesting because it 's a rare invitation to imagine the future 's mundane side , '' he added . `` Popular notions of the future often get stuck in a kind of glossy rut - gleaming buildings and whiz-bang inventions -- and it 's not often that we see the futures of everyday life brought into focus . '' Design . So how did the Extrapolation Factory create their intriguing objects ? The group -- comprising 33-year-olds Elliott Montgomery and Chris Woebken , who met after studying design interactions at London 's Royal College of Art -- put the call out for members of the public interested in `` futuring . '' On a snowy day in New York City , they gathered 40 people -- ranging from seven-year-old kids to middle aged architects -- and asked them to read think-tank reports on the future . `` The forecasts were from a broad spectrum -- obesity as a percentage of the UK population , robots in the homes of South Koreans , shortages of chocolate , acceptance of drug use , and technology , '' said Montgomery . The participants then wrote a short story imagining a world where these forecasts came to life . A table was laid out with various items from other 99¢ stores , which they used to create new products for their fantastical fables . `` We got some very bleak futures where environmental scenarios were really devastating , like the dying out of coral reefs . So products like the `` Grow Your Own Coral Reef '' responded to those issues , '' said Montgomery . `` At the same time there were people who imaged a future of great possibilities . One of the children was responding to the idea of robots in all our homes , who would help her brush her pet chinchilla . So the product she made was an arm attachment for your chinchilla-brushing robot . '' What next ? There 's an interesting parallel in seeing objects from the 99¢ store of the future going on display in China -- one of the world 's biggest makers of cheap , mass-produced products . `` It seems appropriate that the project be brought from New York to Shanghai , '' said Candy . `` It prompts us to think about the supply chains - in which China is a critical link - which make the phenomenon of 99¢ stores possible in the developed world . '' So could these fantastical 99¢ items become reality ? `` We 're not asking people to predict , but more to dream , '' said Montgomery . `` Or produce nightmares , if that 's what will help us make decisions in the present . ''
What would Two store of the future look like ? hundreds NY designers found out . Created 99¢ of futuristic products , and sold them in ordinary shop . Now surreal items have gone on show in UK Design 99¢ exhibition .