Book-Style Interface For Web, TV, Radio
Watanabe is slowly working toward a future written by Neal Stephenson and posited by MIT's Media Lab. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Hawking Follows Path Set By Heinlein's Waldo
Stephen Hawking gets just a bit closer to Waldo's home in space. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Passed
Finally, the House passes a bill to keep genetic information from being used by employers to discriminate. (re: Andrew Niccol)

New Earth Detected Around Gliese 581
Remarkable find by astronomers demonstrates that extrasolar Earth-like planets are not just fiction. (re: Various)

Rhenium Diboride Like Metal, Crystal
Tip for creating latest super-tough material found in Doc Smith. (re: E.E. 'Doc' Smith)

Speciation Driven By Cosmic Cycles?
Poul Anderson came up with something very similar to this idea fifty years ago. (re: Poul Anderson)

Kryptonite Discovered By Scientist
Boffins are finally able to identify mysterious mineral. (re: DC Comics)

Almost Niven's Flashlight Laser
Take a look for yourself at this one. (re: Larry Niven)

Deflector Shields For Spacecraft?
Interesting idea from the UK on how to protect space travelers Star Trek-style. (re: E.E. 'Doc' Smith)

Clever Clocks Get You Up
Can't get up in the morning? Here's a handful of clocks that use every trick in the book to wake you up. (re: Various)

Building Shaker Quake Machine
Engineers get out from behind their laptops and shake up a real 275-ton building. (re: Vernor Vinge)

Nanotech Self-Healing Houses
If a house had the right kind of walls, could it alter enough to heal itself? (re: J.G. Ballard)

Interview With Greg Bear On Quantico
This exclusive Technovelgy interview includes Greg Bear's comments on the ideas and devices used in his book Quantico. (re: Greg Bear)

Internet Routing In Space Now, Venus Equilateral Station Later
Sooner or later, there's going to be a real communications network up there - George O. Smith knew it in 1942. (re: George O. Smith)

Big Brother Now Watching George Orwell's House
Here's an added incentive to visit the house in which George Orwell wrote 1984 - something not mentioned in the guidebooks. (re: George Orwell)

Star Wars Binoculars A Cognitive Technology Threat Warning
Come on, you've wanted some of those nifty Star Wars binoculars since about 1977 - admit it. (re: George Lucas)