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Brush Up On Star Trek Tech Made Real
The new Star Trek movie is almost out; I'm looking forward to seeing an update to the Star Trek technology of yesteryear. So much of the "science-fictional" technology from The Original Series is now a reality - or close to it.
Military Sets PHASR On Stun
'Tricorder' Ready For Mars Rover This Year
LifeBed System Like Star Trek Sick Bay
Virtual Wife Nags Via Email
Zingo Local Anesthesia Like Star Trek Hypospray
Doll Fabbed From Living Cells
ITPP Boosts Blood Oxygen Like Star Trek Triox
Deflector Shields For Spacecraft?
Laser Welding Skin Closure Like Star Trek
Holo-Dek - A Unique Real-World Virtual Venue
Siemens Communicator Badge: Trek-style Communicator
Universal Translator, Babelfish Possible
ELISHA Handheld Personal Biosensors
Transparent Aluminum Armor Tested By Military
'Plastic Steel': Optically Transparent Plastic Nanocomposites
Alien Languages Translated By Computer Program?
Tanaka Auto Door
The Thinking Man's Wheelchair
Alien Musical Instruments?
Life Detector Robot To Find Life On Distant Worlds
Urey Life Detector
You might also want to check out this feature I did with Space.com on Star Trek tech; go to Top Ten Star Trek Tech.
Ultrasound Bloodless Surgery Star Trek-Style
Rather than cutting into patients with primitive steel tools that haven't changed too much in the last several thousand years, doctors will focus high-intensity ultrasound beams at a particular spot in the body.
The Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response device is under development.
"We're developing a tricorder," declares Dr. Robert Downs of the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences.
Star Trek fans (classic Trek, natch) recall the amazing sick bay beds that always knew everything about patients lying on them.
Classic Star Trek fans of course remember hapless Harry Mudd, entrepreneur and android salesman. He made a copy of his actual shrewish wife just for fun.
The device uses compressed gas to accelerate lidocaine particles under the skin.
This seems like just the sort of android 'blank' that you would need to create duplicates of your favorites - like Captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode What Little Girls Are Made Of.
When given by direct injection to mice with damaged hearts in a recent experiment, it turned these couch potato mice into treadmill lovers...
These Star Trek-style shields could be turned off or on depending on solar activity or other requirements.
It could also become a device for the battlefield, allowing soldiers to heal each other on contact with a laser wand, says Prof. Katzir.
The object at Holo-Dek gaming theaters is to combine the experiences of large-screen presentation with multiplayer gaming as experienced online - but better.
The device can be worn like a badge, or on a lanyard around your neck.
When a Professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics starts talking about it, that's something worth understanding.
Aging Star Trek fans can't wait to get their hands on this one; we've been waiting since 1967.
ALON is a ceramic compound with very high compressive strength and durability; it offers better performance than traditional materials consisting of bonded glass.
"Plastic steel" is stiff and ultra strong, with properties approaching the values of steel and its alloys.
"Language has to be structured in a certain way otherwise it will be inefficient and unwieldy."
The fabled automatic doors of Star Trek come to life in a new way.
Audeo allows the control of a wheelchair by neurological signals. Put more simply, you can move the chair if you think you can.
The Suzuki Q Chord has been played by David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr.
A robotic rover called Zoe is the first robot to remotely detect the presence of life.
Urey will also distinguish between amino acids made by biological and non-biological processes.
(Top Ten Star Trek Tech)
Perhaps I'll see you at the movies.
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