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Explore the inventions and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 1,785 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 2,345 Science Fiction in the News and Beyond Technovelgy articles. |
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SCRATCHbot Robot Rat Whiskers Video This is a pretty good video showing progress in the almost sixty year-old idea of whiskered robots. |
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Responsive Mirror, Mirror On The Wall A special display lets users see themselves in two different sets of clothing at the same time. |
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AcceleGlove Open-Source Data Glove This device was developed at great expense by your government, and now you can have one at a very reasonable price; developers use Java to program it. |
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Mars Robot Takes Up Stargazing Robots with time (and energy) on their hands need tasks to perform. How about spending time looking up, and not just down, at a planetary surface? |
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Chewing Robot Hailed By Would-Be Flesh-Eating Bots Finally, a way to perform meaningful clinical trials of dental materials. And equip robots with chewing, gnashing teeth. |
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Google Earth Typography What do aliens see when they look at Earth from afar? Maybe letters. |
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Domed Cities - For Earth? Is it really time to start thinking about whether or not we need to start covering Earth cities to protect them (and us) from the rest of our own planet? |
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Robotic Microsurgery Instrument Goes Anywhere The idea of robotic micro-surgical instruments has a longer history in sf than in medicine. This powerful TED talk displays the latest devices. |
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Hero Dog From 9/11 Cloned 5X Although not all the clones are exact duplicates, it's a remarkable process. |
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Cleaning Up Chernobyl With Beets Another interesting scheme to try to cut the amount of time that tens of thousands of kilometers of countryside must lay fallow due to radioactive fallout. |
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Hovering Levi-Table Furniture that floats - that's the future - at least of the office - according to Kurt Vonnegut. |
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Toyota i-Real Personal Transport Now In Use Sit up straight if you want to look pedestrians in the eye, then recline for speed. With video. |
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AltaRock's Quake-Inducing Geothermal Energy Search People need alternative energy sources in California; are there any ways of getting what we need that are free of consequences? |
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Shrapnel-Locating Autonomous Robot This autonomous robotic arm uses a biopsy needle and a special technique to find bits of shrapnel as small as 2 mm needle fragments in the body. |
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Underwater Mine Detection Robots Vs. Wabbler The Navy is trying to create a smarter mine hunting robotic system. I think I can predict the logical countermove. |
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Optogenetics - Fiber Optic Brain Control Possibly a cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and epilepsy. Also, possibly a way to selectively control the behavior of any individual. |
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Air Bag Jacket Saves Life Of Motorcyclist Although this is an old story, it's a pretty good call by an sf writer. |
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Bowlingual Translates Canine Speech Just in time to be tied into a major motion picture, this upgrade to a classic device now lets your dog speak at last. |
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Online Virtual Medical Training This sim is the first step to having an emergency medical hologram. |
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Airbag Jacket A jacket or coverall with inflatable air bags throughout for protection against impact. (From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
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Breathing Dresses A special suit and apparatus for survival on the surface of the Moon. (From A Honeymoon In Space [1901] by George Griffith) |
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Reporting Machine A robotic roving reporter. (From The Simulacra [Ace] by Philip K. Dick) |
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Pod-Chair A living chair, grown by the Iszc to perform its function. (From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
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Visual Report Screen A device that allows a robot nanny to let the owners view what the robot sees from a remote location. (From Nanny [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
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Needles (Chocolate and Vanilla) Inflated towers reaching 20 miles out of Earth's atmosphere. (From Sundiver [1979] by David Brin) |
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Commercial Fly An autonomous, fly-sized manufactured creature that presents commercial advertisements. (From The Simulacra [Ace] by Philip K. Dick) |
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Adam Selene A computer generates a human avatar for itself. (From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1966] by Robert Heinlein) |
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