Nickelodeon magazine, the humor magazine for kids, is celebrating its first birthday with an eye on the future.

The magazine asked 16 people - including a professor at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and hairstylist Christophe - for their predictions for life in the year 2050.Said Christophe: "We will be able to grow hair at a hundred times its normal rate because of computer-assisted growth chambers."

The F.I.T. professor, Michael Renzulli, predicted temperature-controlled body suits.

Nickelodeon magazine also digs up future ideas from the past. A 1950 Popular Mechanics magazine predicted that by the year 2000, people would be eating candy made from recycled tableclothes and underwear.

The birthday issue also contains a recipe card for Slime-A-Birthday Cake. The ingredients include a box of vanilla pudding and some green food coloring for the "slime."

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Nickelodeon magazine is published bimonthly.

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