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Cream Encourages Your Immune System
   A cream that encourages the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells has been released for general use in Australia.
Electrodynamic Tethers: Clean Up Debris - Power or Boost Spacecraft
   An electrodynamic tether (EDT) is a simple idea, but one with an amazing number of uses. You can power your ship, speed up or slow down.
Video Vigilantes Upload Crime Videos
   Vigilantes now carry video cameras, uploading the evidence to the Internet.
AI Software 'Robot' Lawyers Next Year
   Software lawyers from Brin novel are just around the corner.
PocketCaster First Live Video Webcast From Cellphone
   Now anyone can stream video around the world.
Planetary Annihilation Chances 'Totally Miniscule'
   Black holes generated beneath the Earth's surface? I sense no danger here...
Bionic Dolphins And Whale Waldoes
   Amazing prototype submersible is not your father's water toy; this baby's got a Corvette engine.
UK Officers Wear Brin's True-Vu Lenses
   I think David Brin called this one about sixteen years ago; Britain really has a thing about surveillance...
Innespace Dolphin Boat Breaks The Surface
   This is another cool dolphin boat - closer to a product this time.
'Expert System' Found Practicing Law Without License
   Court of Appeals confirms earlier court ruling that software was practicing law without a license.
Glasses Camera With Digital Video Recorder
   These glasses are an almost perfect match for David Brin's True-vu lenses from his 1990 novel Earth.
Eye-Fi Equals SD Memory Card Plus Wi-Fi
   Amazing device for its size - it's a memory card... no, it's a network connectivity device... actually, both.
WCCTV 3G Covert Backpack - A Surveillance Vest
   This little item could be used for surveillance, yes, but also sousveillance. And it has a built-in panic button.
Audeo Neckband Voiceless Phone Calls
   The new neckband allows you to 'think' and speak. This will really mess up the 'Can you hear me now?' cell phone pitch; you'll just watch the guy sitting there.
Performance Improving Self Contained Exoskeleton for Swimming (PISCES)
   The military hopes to open up the underwater realm with mechanical super frogmen; fans of Brin's 'Sundiver' may find this familiar.
Brando Spy Glassses Have Camera, Player Built-in
   Possibly first occurrence of a pair of glasses with both camera and player built into the frames.
Pharm Animals - Engineered Goat Makes Drugs In Milk
   Amazing genetically engineered goats are the USDA's first approved 'pharm animals' - or fabricows.
Laser Kills Mosquitoes Like Brin's Bee Zapper
   This story is even better because it arose in the context of intellectual property; if Brin had the idea in 1990, doesn't he own it?
Wrong Tomorrow - A Brin Predictions Registry?
   This site keeps track of predictions, and might help us separate the seers from the blowhards.
GandhiCam For Blackberry Auto-Uploads Sousveillance
   Interesting application turns ordinary Blackberry into a civil resistance tool.
U-Met Utility Helmet For First Responders
   This helmet would be of use in a variety of situations, from disaster response to ordinary police work.
Inflatable Space Tower Prototype Assembled
   A twenty-foot prototype of an inflatable tower that could potentially reach out of the atmosphere has fans of David Brin's Sundiver interested.
Laser-Based Mosquito Killer Demonstrated
   First public demonstration of a 'bee-zapper' ala David Brin at TED conference.
'Invisibles' Provides Tactile Feedback For VR
   This is just the kind of prototype system that could give you you virtual reality world.
FrontlineSMS Legal Justice Via Cell Phone
   These remote lawyer programs are just the start - wait until they come up with a 'virtual counsel'.
Polaroid GL20 Video Sunglasses
   Lady Gaga demonstrates this product, which she designed with Polaroid.
Legal 'e-Discovery' Software Replaces Lawyers
   Your virtual counsel will see you now.
'Police POV' Uses On-Officer Cameras
   Check out this new police reality television show; it uses technology introduced decades ago by sf writers and movie makers.
ZionEyez HD Camera Glasses
   In case you were wondering what those Flip video camera engineers have been up to lately.
Genetically Engineered Cell Is A Living Laser
   This cell can emit tiny short pulses of laser light.
The Garbage Mines Of Ghana
   'They break down electronics with hammers and hands.'
Swiss HCPVT Giant Photovoltaic 'Flower'
   '...leaning against one of the slender stalks of a sunshade-photocell collector.'- David Brin, 1990.

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