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Korean Exoskeleton Suit F1 Helps You Put It On
'Better late than never.' (5/26/2025) |
Have AI Researchers Given Up On 'Bio-Babies'?
'You couldn't have the capstone without the pyramid to hold it up.' Stephen Baxter, 2008. (4/24/2025) |
Bunker Busters and Bore-Pellets
'The first revelation of the new Soviet bore-pellets.' - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (4/22/2025) |
'Spikeless' Brand Swizzle Stick Detects Spiked Drinks
'the unobtrusive inspections with tiny remote-cast snoopers...' - Frank Herbert, 1964. (4/20/2025) |
Heart Patches Grown In The Lab Repair Hearts
I'm hoping that this procedure becomes a normal part of medical practice! (4/18/2025) |
Humanoid Robots Spotted In Homes Performing Household Chores
'... nothing was perfected until M. Pantalon announced the completion of his automatic valet.' Arthur Bird, 1899. (4/16/2025) |
Musk Proposes Sites For Martian Cities
'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.' - Percy Greg, 1880. (4/14/2025) |
Bambot Open Source Cheap Delivery Robot
'Not since the time he rewired the delivery robot...' (4/12/2025) |
Robot Collective Acts Like A Smart Material
'...it was all composed of tiny, identical cubes, carefully laid to form a tilelike surface.' (4/10/2025) |
Vipera Electric Skis From Frigid Dynamics
'JOAN strapped on her power-skis...' - Ursula K. Le Guin, 1964. (4/8/2025) |
Pixel Watch 'Loss of Pulse Detection' And Philip K. Dick
'He carried on his person a triggering mechanism sensitive to his heartbeat.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (4/6/2025) |
Nuclear Plant Restarted To Power AI To Feed Us Dreams
'...Anything was possible in my imaginary environment.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1940. (4/4/2025) |
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Electrofriend (Artificial Friend)
A tiny electric friend, which nestles in your ear, and provides advice and information.
(From Automatthew's Friend [1972] by Stanislaw Lem) |
Bobble (Confinement Sphere)
A sphere of force that entirely isolates the interior from the rest of the universe.
(From The Peace War [1984] by Vernor Vinge) |
Boarding Space-Line
A method for two ships to connect at a distance, allowing a passenger to move safely between ships.
(From Tyrann [1951] by Isaac Asimov) |
Absolute Black
A material which, when covering an object, will reflect no light whatsoever.
(From The Shadow and the Flash [1903] by Jack London) |
Wall in the Air
An invisible barrier that protects an entire island or city.
(From Rondah, or Thirty-Three Years in a Star [1887] by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné) |
Computers Can Dream
A sufficiently complex AI computer can have activity similar to that of a human dreaming.
(From 2010: Odyssey Two [1982] by Isaac Asimov) |
Computer Play Time
Allowing a computer to take time off from serious problems improves its performance.
(From Point of View [1975] by Isaac Asimov) |
Science Fiction
Literature that interweaves "the revealed truths of Science" with a "pleasing story" that is "poetical and true."
(From A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject [1851] by William Wilson) |
Public Call
A form of communication in which a group of people would remain isolated, but through technology could see and hear each other.
(From The Machine Stops [1909] by E.M. Forster) |
Deflector
In this case a gravity deflector, but the first use of the word 'deflector'.
(From Islands in the Air [1929] by L.H. Morrow) |
Danler Spacial Chart
A representation of space around a ship.
(From Star Ship Invincible [1935] by Frank K. Kelly) |
Black Hole
A massive space object that emits no light.
(From Rift in Space [1937] by Paul Ernst) |
Sink Hole of Space
A rip in space, a hole that pulls in passing objects.
(From Star Ship Invincible [1935] by Frank K. Kelly) |
Vacuum Tractor
A small transport used on the surface of the moon, in vacuum.
(From Moonwalk [1952] by H.B. Fyfe) |
Moonwalk
To traverse the Earth's moon on foot, in a space suit.
(From Moonwalk [1952] by H.B. Fyfe) |
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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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