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Guided Bullets By Exacto From DARPA
DARPA once again pushes the envelope in a way that was clearly foreseen in books and movies. (re: Nolan and Johnson)

The Truman Syndrome
An interesting example of the connection between popular culture and mental health. (re: Various)

Space Beer In (Very) Limited Distribution
What might have happened to that barley on board the ISS? Only thirty lucky couples will find out. (re: Various)

Winboni Window-Washing Robot
Very neat little robot is a real winner - of a prestigious award for students. Check the video. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Robot Prepares Pancakes For Breakfast
These manufacturing robots work well in the home kitchen with their redesigned, smaller form factor. Enjoy! (re: Anthony Boucher)

Choking On Our Own Waste Heat
Interesting speculation by two UK professors; even if we solve global warming due to greenhouse gases, this problem still exists. (re: Larry Niven)

Samsung Folding Screen Cell Phone Video
I think that William Gibson called this one pretty closely back in 1986; watch the video and read the excerpt from the novel and judge for yourself. (re: William Gibson)

Thought-Screen Helmets A Classic American Craft
Fashionable, practical and above all, home made. I also have some new materials to recommend. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Precrime CCTV Cameras Now In Britain
Portsmouth now sports a CCTV camera system that can detect crimes before they happen - sometimes. (re: Philip K. Dick)

DoD Computers Penetrated In Cyber-Attack
Attacks on DoD computers forced military leaders to brief President Bush this week; I wonder if they read to him from Neuromancer to help him understand it? (re: William Gibson)

BAM! It's More Slippery Than Teflon (And Greener)
Remarkable material is super slick and super hard, even in the thinnest coating. (re: Clifford Simak)

'Plastic Steel': Optically Transparent Plastic Nanocomposites
Sounds pretty close to transparent aluminum to me; and it's available in thin sheets like Visqueen or Mylar. (re: Various)

Moller M400 SkyCar Taking Too Long
What exactly is keeping this guy? Don't we all want skycars? Robert Heinlein certainly did. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Boeing A160 Hummingbird Has Whisper Mode
This autonomous surveillance drone helicopter has something in common with the fictional movie copter Blue Thunder. (re: Various)

Carbon Nanotube Speakers Are Flexible, Transparent
This material could be an enabler for a variety of science fictional ideas, Update: a reader has found a great precursor to the idea of a flexible speaker. (re: Bruce Sterling)

Graphene Memory Arrays Are Stackable, Awesome
Amazing advance could bring storage devices of sfnal capacity even closer. (re: Dan Simmons)

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