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Liuzhi Process Now In Use In China
'He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain.' - George Orwell, 1984. (9/1/2025) |
Reflect Orbital Offers 'Sunlight on Demand' And Light Pollution
'I don't have to tell you about the seven two-mile-diameter orbital mirrors...' (8/29/2025) |
Will Robots Become Family Caregivers?
'The robant and the tiny old woman entered the control room slowly...' - Philip K. Dick, 1953. (8/27/2025) |
Chinese Tokamak Uses AI To Keep Fusion Plasma Stable
'Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs... What are the odds?'
(8/25/2025) |
Time Crystals Can Now Be Seen Directly
'It is as you thought when you constructed the time crystal, my master Vaylan.' - NK Heming, 1952. (8/23/2025) |
RoboBallet The Dance Of Cooperative Robots
'...an integrated seven-unit robot team.' - Isaac Asimov, 1944. (8/21/2025) |
Chrysalis Generation Ship to Alpha Centauri
'This was their world, their planet —
this swift-traveling, yet seemingly moveless vessel.' - Nat Schachner, 1934 (8/19/2025) |
Alexa+ And Its AI Brain Improvements
'What's it do?' he asked. 'It amuses.' Philip K. Dick, 1965. (8/17/2025) |
Does CloneRobotics Offer A True Android?
Is this What Little Girls Are Made Of? (8/11/2025) |
Brain Implant Is Able To Capture Your Inner Dialogue
'So you see, you can hide nothing from me.' (8/9/2025) |
Are AIs Going Rogue Like Hal 9000
'I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me...' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. (8/7/2025) |
Animated Tumblebugs On Astounding Cover!
'Gaines and Harvey mounted tumblebugs, and kept abreast of the Cadet Captain...' (8/5/2025) |
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Time Crystals
Permits indefinite movement forward in time.
(From Rocketeers at Bay [1952] by N.K. Heming) |
Replacement of Brain with Computer
Removal of the brain of an ordinary man, and installation of a calculating machine.
(From The Ableist Man in the World [1879] by Edward Page Mitchell) |
End of Cars
Humanity finally sees sense and gets rid of personal cars.
(From Stand on Zanzibar [1968] by John Brunner) |
Prowlie
A police vehicle.
(From Stand on Zanzibar [1968] by John Brunner) |
Space Meteorologist
A person who studies storms in space.
(From The Storm [1943] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Interstellar Storm
A vast body of both matter and anti-matter swirling through the stars.
(From The Storm [1943] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Robot Smiles
A robot learns to give a perfect human smile.
(From Helen O'Loy [1938] by Lester del Rey) |
Mirror Menu
A menu appears on an upright display at the table in a restaurant.
(From Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century [1890] by Ignatius Donnelly) |
Mirror News DIsplay
The news of the day in a selected country is presented on a readable display before the reader.
(From Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century [1890] by Ignatius Donnelly) |
Wind Wheels
Gathering energy from the wind at a massive scale.
(From When the Sleeper Wakes [1899] by H.G. Wells) |
Gas-Accumulators
Storage for electricity enough to power a city.
(From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo Gernsback) |
Huge Engine-Driven Aeroplane
Wings a thousand feet across.
(From When the Sleeper Wakes [1899] by H.G. Wells) |
Anticlamps
Padded clamps to restrain cabin crew under acceleration.
(From Saboteur of Space [1944] by Robert Abernathy) |
Astrogator's Masking Goggles
Allows better viewing of astrogation charts and displays.
(From Saboteur of Space [1944] by Robert Abernathy) |
Machine Music
Entertainment from the Great Machine.
(From The Machine Stops [1909] by E.M. Forster) |
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Ten Years Ago In Technovelgy
E. Coli Forced To Evolve: Old Bacterium Learns New Trick
The general method was remarkably similar to a technique used by award-winning sf author Theodore Sturgeon in his classic 1941 story Microcosmic God. (re: Theodore Sturgeon) |
Nanotechnology Grand Challenge Events Called For
We've all had fun watching the recent Grand Challenge race run by DARPA. Let's help DARPA set up the nanotechnology Grand Challenge for very small vehicles. (re: Technovelgy.com) |
da Vinci Surgical Robot: Dr.'s Helper
A 2004 University of Michigan study noted that patients who were operated on with robotic surgeon assistance recovered more quickly with fewer or less obtrusive scars using a surgical robot. Similar devices are used in telemedicine; read a wry encoun (re: Peter Watts) |
Contour Crafting: 3D House Printer
Perhaps you've used those programs that let you design your dream house, creating a Computer Aided Design (CAD) file. Not quite ready to take up the hammer and start building? What if you could just "print" your house? (re: Bruce Sterling) |
RobotCop III - Not Quite R. Daneel Olivaw
In his classic 1953 robot story Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov teamed a human detective with a robotic one - R. Daneel Olivaw. Hong Kong has been testing robotic police officers for years, and has now introduced RobotCop III. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Poweriser: Extreme Sports Gear from The Diamond Age
In The Diamond Age, author Neal Stephenson creates a vivid picture of a future Shanghai. The novel mixes "futuristic" devices based on nanotechnology with simpler mechanical devices that are almost Victorian in their simplicity...
Imagine my surpri (re: Neal Stephenson) |
DARPA's BigDog Robot And Bradbury's Mechanical Hound
In his chilling 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury created the mechanical hound, a robot that accompanied the firemen and helped with their work... DARPA has made a multi-million dollar investment in the soldier of the future's best friend - Big (re: Ray Bradbury) |
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