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Sony Flexible Color E-Paper
SF writers love the idea of e-paper. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Somnus Sleep Shirt - Sweet Dreams
Get your REM on. (re: Rudy Rucker)

China's Weather Modification Office
Engineering the rain with artillery. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Lingodroid Robots Invent Spoken Language
Robots can communicate quite well with each other, creating their own words as they go. (re: George Lucas)

Google IO Cloud Robotics With PR2 Robot From Willow Garage
No need to worry about the processing power of your robot, when it can connect to the cloud. (re: Harry Harrison)

Rolling Robot's Helicopter Transformation
It's sort of like Kipling's Marine... (re: Philip K. Dick)

TellApart Ads Follow You On The Web
Can a computer predict that you will be a customer, justifying its pursuit of you across the web? (re: William Gibson)

Pneuborn Infant Robots
Baby bots are cute; but do they grow up fast? (re: Brian Aldiss)

Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs. iPad 2 vs. Clarke's Newspad
What a world we live in; science-fictional devices are readily available. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

'Schizophrenic' Computer Aids Researchers
In which a computer is afflicted, with human brain research the beneficiary. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Kiss Transmission Device Latest In Electro-Communication
Actually, based on the video, I'd have to call it a 'French kissing' device. (re: Frederik Pohl)

PaperPhone Uses Bend Gestures
Fascinating prototype uses a unique gestural interface. (re: William Gibson)

Secret Silent Stealth Helicopter
High tech used in the raid on bin Laden's compound. (re: Isaac Asimov)

Directing Microrobot Swarms
All the robots you can fit on the head of a pin. (re: Stanislaw Lem)

What Retinal Implants May Not Replace
'Such eyes are metal and he is flesh ...such a union must be sinful' according to the Fremen. (re: Frank Herbert)

Autonomous Cars In Nevada?
'A person is not required to actively drive an autonomous vehicle.' (re: Robert Heinlein)

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