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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 3,800 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 6,400 Science Fiction in the News articles.

Cheap Drunk Driver Detection From UofM
"Look, I can drive... Start, darn it!" - Philip K. Dick, 1963. (3/4/2024)
Can A Human Land A SpaceX Rocket On Its Tail?
'If she starts to roll sideways — blooey! The underjets only hold you up when they’re pointing down, you know.' - Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1936. (3/2/2024)
Robot Snakes No Longer Stopped By Stairs
'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.' - Lee Chaytor, 1958. (2/28/2024)
Has Turkey Been Stealing Rain From Iran?
Can one country take another's rain? (2/26/2024)
We Need To Build Anti-Drone Systems For Civilian Spaces
'the real border was defended by ...a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats...' - Neal Stephenson, 1995. (2/24/2024)
SensorWake Scent-Based Alarm Clock
'The odalarm awoke Jorj X. McKie with a whiff of lemon.' - Frank Herbert, 1977. (2/22/2024)
AI Worms That Spread
'...there were so many worms and counterworms loose in the data-net now' - John Brunner, 1975. (2/20/2024)
Challenges Of Two-Armed Robots
When the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. (2/18/2024)
FlexRAM Liquid Metal RAM And One Particular SF Movie Robot
'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.' - Philip K. Dick, 1957. (2/16/2024)
Ulm Sleep Pods For The Homeless
'The lid lifted and she crawled inside...' - Larry Niven, 2000. (2/14/2024)
Prophetic Offers Lucid Dreaming Halo With Morpheus-1 AI
''Leads trail away from insertion points on her face and wrist... to a lucid dreamer...' - Peter Watts, 1999. (2/12/2024)
More Like A Tumblebug Than A Motorcycle
'It is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel...'- Robert Heinlein, 1940. (2/10/2024)
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Automaton Steam Surgeon
Mechanized surgery.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb  Loudon)
Ship That Swims Under Water (Submarine)
A Ship that could swim under Water.
(From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World [1666] by Margaret  Cavendish)
Rocketrix
A female rocket pilot.
(From Redemption Cairn [1936] by Stanley G. and Helen  Weinbaum)
Bladder Birds
Alien life well adapted.
(From Redemption Cairn [1936] by Stanley G. and Helen  Weinbaum)
Metallic Fingers
Robot fingers.
(From Rex [1934] by Harl  Vincent)
Solar-Powered Electric Runabout
A vehicle powered from the sun.
(From Let There Be Light [1940] by Lyle  Monroe)
Exfection
Tailored microbes to repair human flesh.
(From The Caryatids [2009] by Bruce  Sterling)
Radar
Detection of objects at a distance.
(From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo  Gernsback)
Appetizer
An amazing adjunct to science-based restaurants; a room that increases appetite with gas!
(From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo  Gernsback)
Food Pellets
Sustenance in a concentrated form.
(From The Republic of the Future [1887] by Anna  Dodd)
Sleep Pod
A special place for snoozing.
(From Mantis [1967] by Chris  Boyce)
Life Phial
Similar to a food pill, food in concentrated form.
(From Improvements So Extraordinary The World Will Shudder [1893] by Mary Elizabeth  Lease)
Sheep's Lozenge
The nutritious portion of an entire sheep, in one pill.
(From The Fatal Curiosity, or, A Hundred Years Hence [1877] by James  Payn)
Electrical Brain
A mechanism that grants memory an intelligence to machines.
(From Paradise and Iron [1930] by Miles J.  Breuer)
Vision-Based Autonomous Cars
A vehicle that uses a visual sensor to gather information sufficient to safely drive.
(From Paradise and Iron [1930] by Miles J.  Breuer)
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RobotCop III - Not Quite R. Daneel Olivaw
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DARPA's BigDog Robot And Bradbury's Mechanical Hound
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