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The Year In Science Fiction in the News
I've picked a select few stories from the roughly five hundred posted in 2007; it's been an interesting year. I don't really like "Top Tens" but I've frontloaded some of my favorites.
Thanks so much to all of the readers who contributed tips and comments to the site. See you next year!
RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag Bacteria Save Your Data, Make Multiple Backups Raytheon Creates Pain Box From Dune Virtual Theft From Habbo Hotel Clarke's Inflatable Lunar Habitats Now NASA's 'Expert System' Found Practicing Law Without License Varioptic Liquid Lens For Phone Cameras Readius Rollable Display Starts Mass Production Thoughts Become Words With Brain Implant The Thinking Man's Wheelchair Tribal Pizza Carputer For Snow Crash Deliverator Maya Hotel Floating Pyramid Island In Caribbean Sea Nanotech Self-Healing Houses Robot Painter 'Action Jackson' Mimics Jackson Pollock Your Can-Crushing Bionic Hand Is Ready, Steve Austin Lorentz-Actuated Orbit Spacecraft May Ride Planetary Magnetic Fields HUBO FX-1 Robot Chair With Legs Cybernetic Jellyfish Evolve Cyber-Warfare Waged on Estonia By Russia? Burj al-Taqa Dubai Energy Tower - High Tech Badgir A4-Sized Color E-Paper Unrolled By Philips Big Brother To Read Lips Like HAL Smart Wheels Are Artificially Intelligent Robot Taiko Drummers Give Up Factory Day Jobs Web Photos Now Have Zero Credibility HortiBot - Autonomous Weed 'n Feed AgBot Amnesia Drugs: Bad Memories Blocked MIT Exoskeleton Shoulders The Weight For You Inscentinel Honeybees Sniff For Explosives Diamond Light Source Illuminates Manuscripts Dr. Whippy Ice Cream Machine Makes Sure You're Happy Underwater Express - High Speed Troop-Carrying Torpedo Ultrasound Bloodless Surgery Star Trek-Style HypoSurface Walls Are Full Of Life Bone Conduction Cell Phone Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle: It Flies, It Crawls Augmented Reality Humanoid Robot U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi A Brain Radiator For Epileptics MIT Tether For Walking On Asteroids STriDER Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot Near-Miss Asteroid Is Found To Be Artificial Robot Designed To Break First Law - In Order To Save It Carnegie Mellon's Boss Wins DARPA Urban Challenge Tadpoles Grow Extra Eye On Command Diabetes Tattoo Tests For Glucose Levels Sarcos Exoskeleton Video
New tag from Hitachi is incredibly small - truly RFID in powder form. (re: Bruce Sterling)
Remarkable feat by researchers makes those so-called thumbdrives look monster-sized by comparison. (re: Barbara Hambly)
Raytheon has unwittingly created the pain box straight out of Frank Herbert's Dune novels. (re: Frank Herbert)
When there is a theft of virtal goods in a virtual world, does your avatar spend time in a virtual jail? Interesting tie-in with an excellent new Charles Stross novel. (re: Charles Stross)
Arthur C. Clarke calls another one in his early novel A Fall of Moondust. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)
Court of Appeals confirms earlier court ruling that software was practicing law without a license. (re: David Brin)
The oil (and water) lens finally makes it into consumer products that will be available near you. (re: Frank Herbert)
You can roll up a newspaper, magazine and even a paperback book; try that with a Kindle. The Readius uses a great display technology. (re: William Gibson)
The wish may be the father of the thought, but now the thought can directly father the word - with brain implants. (re: Niven and Pournelle)
A remarkable development for the disabled, this idea was derided as mere science fiction in 1966. (re: Gene Roddenberry)
It's just the first generation, but I can almost smell that fresh 'za gliding silently to my house. (re: Neal Stephenson)
I think I've read about this one before; it would be nice to have a hotel you could move. (re: Larry Niven)
If a house had the right kind of walls, could it alter enough to heal itself? (re: J.G. Ballard)
This little robotic mechanism does a great job of creating works like those of Jackson Pollock. (re: J.G. Ballard)
Robotic hand shows exceptional grip strength. (re: Martin Caidin)
Interesting proposal by NASA to fund research on the last known propellantless propulsion method. (re: Robert Adams)
Robotic walking chair, when you need to have someone walk for you. (re: )
Interesting art video and Sterling/Rucker short story come together. (re: Rudy Rucker/Bruce Sterling)
Is this the first instance of cyberwarfare between nation-states? (re: Bruce Sterling)
The planned Burj al-Taqa tower takes an energy efficient design of the ancient world into the future. (re: Frank Herbert)
South Korea's LG Philips does it again with this amazing full sheet of e-paper. (re: Neal Stephenson)
The British are at it again, taking a technology designed to deal with criminals, and applying it to everyone. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)
Looks like the old 'Tiger Paws' advertisement will finally come true - not the tires, but the wheels themselves. (re: Neal Stephenson)
These bots are great on their own, but I know a great front man (robot) for them. (re: Various)
Now anyone can rewrite history, taking only seconds for each precious photo. (re: George Orwell)
This robot has handy, yet deadly, attachments to fight our weed enemies. (re: Michael Crichton)
Researchers may have found a way to block or even delete bad, unpleasant memories. Imagine the possibilities. (re: Philip K. Dick)
This nifty exoskeleton from MIT is much lighter and uses less power than other weight-supporting exoskeletons, like the BLEEX. (re: Fritz Leiber)
This special detector actually contains living honeybees trained to sense explosive compounds. (re: Various)
Scientists take only thirty years to turn James P. Hogan's fantasy into reality. Well done! (re: James P. Hogan)
Remarkable prototype device guarantees ice cream satisfaction scientifically - somewhere, Douglas Adams is smiling. (re: Douglas Adams)
This remarkable development has at least been foreshadowed by elements of computer games. (re: Hideo Kojima)
Looks like Dr. McCoy had it right again - maybe knives aren't necessary even for surgery. (re: Gene Roddenberry)
This remarkable new display surface is a pretty good implementation of a J.G. Ballard idea from the 1960's. (re: J.G. Ballard)
Who would think of a bone conduction phone. Besides Pantech - RAH, that's who. (re: robert Heinlein)
There is something definitely creepy about a small flying vehicle that also crawls along to be able to spy better. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)
I'm not sure why I think this is so disturbing, but I think that it's the sensitive featureless robot used as the substrate that gets me... (re: Vernor Vinge)
This unusual remedy appears to have a science-fictional precursor. (re: Various)
Finding a whole new meaning for the term 'asteroid belt' clever MIT researchers propose a new kind of tether. (re: Various)
Surely this is what Arthur C. Clarke imagined in his 1972 novel Rendezvous With Rama. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)
Astronomers about to announce one of the closest near-misses by an asteroid in history, make an amazing discovery. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)
A researcher takes a somewhat different direction in trying to figure out ways to keep robots from hurting people. (re: Isaac Asimov)
It was a complicated call, but Carnegie Mellon pulls it out in the DARPA Urban Challenge. (re: Robert Heinlein)
Tadpoles grow a third eye wherever scientists command; spare human eyes (or eye parts) may not be too far away. (re: Ridley Scott)
People with diabetes must monitor their blood glucose levels by sticking themselves with a needle; one scientist may have thought of an easier way. (re: Paul Di Filippo)
The Sarcos version of an exoskeleton; nice video gives the details. (re: Robert Heinlein)
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