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Amazing Photonic Crystal Light Sail
'That sail will be twenty thousand miles at the wide part.' - Cordwainer Smith, 1960. (3/19/2026) |
Blue Collar AI Goes To Work To Mine Its Own Crypto
Blue collar bot. (3/17/2026) |
Rogue AI Replicated Itself
'Sapiro’s computer just kept dialing at random, hanging up on humans, until it got a fellow computer of the same type as itself.' - Gregory Benford, 1970. (3/15/2026) |
HandelBot Helps Two-Handed Robots Learn Piano
'I request that you feed the correlation between those dots and the levers of the panel into my memory banks.' (3/13/2026) |
Woven Fiber Electronic Skin For Robots
'... all the feel and appearance of human flesh and epidermis.' - Harl Vincent, 1934. (2/11/2026) |
When AI Takes Its First Breath
Any suggestions? (2/9/2026) |
Chinese Aircar Light And Airy, Not For Blade Runners
Daytime version. (2/7/2026) |
The Morphing Wheel And The Smartwheel
'If you surf over a bump, the spokes contract to roll over it.' Neal Stephenson, 1992. (2/5/2026) |
Transporting Antimatter
'...drawing plans for the magnetic tongs and bed plates and relays.' (2/3/2026) |
Polish Turns Your Nail Into A Stylus
'He wrote on it, using the pointed fingernail of his right forefinger...' - Cordwainer Smith, 1950. (2/1/2026) |
I Wish This Plaudit Pin Was More Like A Wristpad
'Frank was cursing into his wristpad, switching between Arabic and English.' - Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992. (1/29/2026) |
World's Largest Teleoperated Arm
'...a pair so huge that Stevens could not conceive a use for it..' - Robert Heinlein, 1941. (1/27/2026) |
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Talking Nail
Used by scanners when not talking.
(From Scanners Live in Vain [1950] by Cordwainer Smith) |
Suspension Room
A kind of prison cell; the prisoners were placed in suspended animation.
(From Crossroads of Space [1932] by A.G. Stangland) |
Fueling Island (Pie Pan)
A space station placed (and held) between distant planets in the solar system.
(From Crossroads of Space [1932] by A.G. Stangland) |
Prison Planet
A planet (or planetoid) that serves as a jail for solar system offenders.
(From The Venus Germ [1932] by R.F. Starzl (w/F. Pragnell)) |
Laser Rifle
A laser weapon shaped like a rifle, carried by one man, fired at the shoulder.
(From Nine Starships Waiting [1963] by Roger Zelazny) |
Spacebag
A quick-and-dirty kind of space craft.
(From Gree's Hellcats [1965] by C.C. MacApp) |
Light Vests (Laser Tag)
A vest and light gun combination used to score hits.
(From The Fastest Draw [1963] by Larry Eisenberg) |
Mechanical Marshal
An automaton that functions like a quick-draw lawman of the Old West.
(From The Fastest Draw [1963] by Larry Eisenberg) |
Perimeter Robot
A purpose-designed robotic sentry, looking for aliens.
(From The Cruel Equations [1969] by Robert Sheckley) |
Faked Video
Fraudulent video and audio file created from original materials to order.
(From The Jagged Orbit [1968] by John Brunner) |
Secret Agent Robot
A robotic agent sent to uncover the Soviet threat.
(From Powers of Observation [1968] by Harry Harrison) |
Private Eye Software
Sam Spade from 1s and 0s.
(From Finger of Fate [1980] by Edward Wellen) |
Lawagon
A police car with extra features.
(From Into the Shop [1964] by Ron Goulart) |
Brillo
A police robot.
(From Brillo [1970] by Ben Bova (w/H. Ellison)) |
Air Suit
A simple kind of outfit that needed only oxygen for its occupant.
(From When the Sun Went Out [1937] by Eando Binder) |
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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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