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Technovelgy Top Stories For 2004
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1. Spaceflight
Club For Space Enthusiasts The enthusiasm of the amateur space explorers in the Baltimore Gun Club has been kept alive since 1867. |
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2. Rat Neurons Learn Flight Simulator Talk about sheer slack-jawed "come on, no way" impossibility - the head cheeses from Peter Watt's novel Starfish are here. |
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3. BrainGate - Earth Scientists Begin To Crack Krell Secrets We saw the movie about fifty years ago - now scientists are working out direct brain-computer interfaces. |
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4. Chips In Your Head - Artificial Brain Prosthesis Under Development We all read about microsofts - chips you could just slide into your brain to augment its functionality - twenty years ago. |
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5. NASA's New Radiation Shielding First Proposed
By John W. Campbell In 1936 Still a good idea after all those years. |
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6. Philips FluidFocus: Variable Focus Fluid Lens Now, if we could just find some "hufhuf" oil, we'd be all set. |
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7. Philips Rollable Display (Active-Matrix) These amazing thin, rollable displays bring us right to the era of poster televisions and smart paper. |
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8. Microvision Laser Monocle: Technician Retina-Vision Frederic Pohl thought about these in 1952. |
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9. Proposal To Move An Asteroid |
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10. Frank
Herbert's Odalarm - Scent-Based Alarm Clock Everybody has their favorites - yes, it's a 100% for-real Odalarm.What a great year. |
Runner-up stories included Roboshiko! Robot Masters Sumo And Linux, Motosk8 - Next Best Thing To Tele-Motor-Coasters, Humans Teach Bacteria New Language, Polymeric Nitrogen, Crime-Fighting Computer - The Game's Afoot 24x7, and Sleep Pods,
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