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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 2,100 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 3,400 Science Fiction in the News articles. |
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FBI To Monitor Social Media Have you been sharing everything on social networks? Guess who wants to be a lurker? (1/26/2012) |
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Self-Healing Batteries It would be better if our gadgets could simply repair themselves when broken (with video). (1/25/2012) |
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Shrewbot Uses Whiskers As Sensors See the video for a good example of how biomimicry can lead to uncanny mechanical imitations of nature. (1/25/2012) |
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Cyborg Rats Have Digital Brain Parts Someday, we'll have reprogrammable brain parts, which will come in handy. (1/24/2012) |
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T-Rays And Tricorders Amazing miniaturization could lead to science-fictional devices. (1/23/2012) |
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Raincatch Raincoat Has Dune-Style Watertube And Catchpocket 'And us sipping our catchpockets the instant they show dewsparkle.' (1/22/2012) |
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IBM Now Stores 1 Bit On 12 Atoms Moore's Law still has some life left. (1/21/2012) |
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RISUG Male Birth Control Almost Ready So, guys, would you use this technology? (1/20/2012) |
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Transparent Aluminum Vs. .50-Cal Bullets Transparent armor can come in handy. (1/19/2012) |
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Van-Mounted Body Scanners Mock Your Idea Of Privacy Scanning now for weapons, who knows what future scans will reveal about you? (1/18/2012) |
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Live from ISS On NASA In HD SF fans are familiar with this idea. (1/18/2012) |
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Bank Of America ATMs Are Now Truth Machines John Brunner gave us the idea for this kind of data transparency. (1/17/2012) |
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Samsung Transparent Smart Window HG Wells also had an idea like this, or was it Frank Herbert? (1/16/2012) |
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Slime Is Smarter Than You Think Researchers are looking for Lord Running Clam. (1/15/2012) |
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Sphero Robot Ball Is Smartphone-Controlled Remote-controlled robotic fun for you and your smartphone. (1/14/2012) |
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US Army-Branded Gaming Peripherals Last Starfighter, your peripherals are ready now! (1/13/2012) |
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Qrio Robot Golfer What's a fair handicap for a robot? (1/12/2012) |
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Anti-Intoxicant Confers Quick Sobriety Research with rats may have implications for human drinkers. (1/11/2012) |
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Smart E-Book System Outperforms Apple iBooks Take a look at the video with this article, and decide for yourself whether this is better than the iPad. (1/10/2012) |
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Ion Cannon Fires blasts of charged particles. (From Star Wars [1976] by George Lucas) |
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Watertube Carries water to and from the catchpockets in a Fremen stillsuit. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
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Catchpocket A small container in a stillsuit that stored reclaimed water. (From Dune [1965] by Brian Herbert) |
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Hammer Flying blunt trauma weapon remote-controlled by an artificially intelligent computer. (From Vulcan's Hammer [1960] by Philip K. Dick) |
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Gee Using the standard letter designation in physics for gravity. (From Sacred Martian Pig [1949] by Margaret Saint Clair) |
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Alcodote A compound that maintains sobriety while drinking. (From Space Viking [1962] by H. Beam Piper) |
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Gateway A device that opens a portal to another dimension. (From Wanderer of Infinity [1933] by Harl Vincent) |
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Mass-Conversion Ship A spacecraft that uses the ultimate in fuel sources. (From Farmer in the Sky [1950] by Robert Heinlein) |
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