Digital Bible Player
At last - a pious portable media player. (re: Frank Herbert)

Be The Soul Of The New Machine
This tele-operated robot will move along with you as you walk, and let you manipulate objects in a remote environment. (re: Clifford Simak)

Lifeblood And Beta Tank Bubble-Based 'Stereo Tanks'
Unusual sculptures that use bubbles as pixels in low-res displays - 2D and 3D. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Modafinil 24-hour Living Through Chemistry
Is sleep a lifestyle choice? Read on. (re: Paul Di Filippo)

Robot Walks After Conceptualizing Own Structure
Amazing video shows robot introspecting to determine its own structure, and then constructing a gait for itself. (re: Roger P. Graham)

Optimus OLED(Not!) Keyboard Chameleon
This keyboard changes its colors (or its keys) for every occasion. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

First Chinese Security Guard Robot
This security bot is able to avoid obstacles, follow a predesignated route and send images of trouble. (re: Philip K. Dick)

'New' Israeli Bionic Hornet Concept Is 70 Years Old
The Israelis shouldn't bother with making up science-fictional insect-sized robots - let the writers do it! (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)

Chick Embryo Regrows Wing With Wnt Signaling
Remarkable achievement from the Salk Institute; eleven years of work have paid off. (re: Frank Herbert)

Manned Asteroid Mission For Constellation Program?
Other uses are being planned for the lunar landing gear NASA already has in the works. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Starfish Robot Shows Robotic Introspection And Self-Modeling
Amazing proprioceptive robot creates a model of its shape automatically; it can sense damage to itself and reconfigure its walk. (re: Roger P. Graham)

Dattoo Personal Skinprint Technology Concept
Dattoos are a concept now, but they could be implemented with technologies we have now. (re: John Varley)

Wireless Power For Laptops, Cellphones?
An old concept perhaps made new with "non-radiative" wireless power transmission. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Space Mirrors Could Create Mars Pocket-Eden
Rigel Woida has been given funding to explore an unusual means of making Mars more comfortable for human exploration. (re: Niven, Pournelle, Flynn)

Electric Voting From Home Via Internet
John Brunner wrote about electronic voting in a very revealing way in 1975 (re: John Brunner)

UK SimCity-Style Social Policy Model - A Kingdom In A Box
UK social science researchers make an old idea new again - Stanislaw Lem's 'kingdom in a box.' (re: Stanislaw Lem)