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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 2,150 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 3,600 Science Fiction in the News articles. |
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NASA's Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator From the Office of the Chief Technologist. (5/15/2012) |
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Robots In The Mines Dangerous professions can be made safer with robots. (5/14/2012) |
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Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Linked chains of polymer molecules... with 'dangling side chain' molecules. (5/13/2012) |
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Paralyzed Woman In Robotic Exoskeleton Finishes Marathon Human courage plus technological progress equals science fiction in the news! (5/12/2012) |
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UrbanSim Counterinsurgency Training App 'Why simulation?' 'He's beginning to do things I didn't anticipate.' (5/11/2012) |
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Kyocera Speakerless Smartphone (ala Gernsback) For once, an sf author filed a patent on a great idea - Hugo Gernsback saw this one coming. (5/10/2012) |
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Touché Interaction With Everyday Objects Unique control surfaces are everywhere, it seems. (5/9/2012) |
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Korean Robot Prison Guard Is Autonomous 'Automatic relays clicked as the robot studied the identification clip.' (5/9/2012) |
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Blueseed Offshore Floating Corporation Ready By 2014 '...new islands bringing life to a watery desert.' (5/8/2012) |
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Robots In Restaurant Outnumber Humans Robots continue to become more capable. (5/8/2012) |
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Russia's SAR-400 To Work Alongside Robonaut 2 'For a wild instant he had thought there was a man on Jupiter already...' (5/7/2012) |
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The Most Densely Populated Place On Earth 'The population density shocked McKie...' (5/6/2012) |
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Cadillac Super Cruise Self-Driving Car Cadillac luxury, in an autonomous vehicle. (5/6/2012) |
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Real-Time 3D Electron Microscopy Clever device lets researchers use those red/blue 3D glasses they picked up at the local theater... (5/5/2012) |
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TeleHuman Life-Size 3D Telepresence '... a lifesize and moving and stereoscopically perfect image, flashed across the void of space to my apparatus by means of etheric vibrations...' (5/4/2012) |
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Nicotine 'Vaccine' Under Development 'You're biochemically incapable of getting off...' (5/3/2012) |
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HERB Home Exploring Robot Butler 'There was the butler robot, hard at work, his copper face expressionless.' (5/2/2012) |
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Kinze Autonomy Project's Autonomous Tractors Will farms become safer with robots? (5/2/2012) |
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Robot Bird Alights On Human Hand First successful perching on a human hand. (5/1/2012) |
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Acoustic Apparatus (Osophone) A device that used bone conduction to transmit sound. (From Acoustic Apparatus [1923] by Hugo Gernsback) |
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Personal Capsule An impenetrable device containing information for your eyes only. (From Foundation [1951] by Isaac Asimov) |
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Butler-Valet Robot A gentleman's servant, roboticized. (From The Jester [1951] by William Tenn) |
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News Receptor Devices used by homeostatic newspapers to gather news autonomically. (From If There Were No Benny Cemoli [1963] by Philip K. Dick) |
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Personal Solar Plant A single-home solar-powered energy source. (From Ring Around the Sun [1952] by Clifford Simak) |
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Solar-powered Prefab House A pre-built house that can live off the grid. (From Ring Around the Sun [1952] by Clifford Simak) |
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Electronic Spy An autonomous device that kept itself hidden while keeping track of an individual's activity. (From Ring Around the Sun [1952] by Clifford Simak) |
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Asteroid Homesteaders' School An institution of learning where regular folks learned how to start a farm on an asteroid. (From Asteroid of Fear [1951] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
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