Bush Robots - Fingers On Your Fingers On Your Fingers...
From Heinlein to Moravec to MacLeod - bush robots are cool. (re: Robert Forward)

TMSUK Robot Carries Your Bags
John Brunner referred to an implementation of this idea that sounded like more fun. (re: John Brunner)

Remote Control For Humans
NTT's prototype of a consumer version of a galvanic vestibular stimulation machine really works. (re: Various)

Robofish Autonomous Fish-bot At London Acquarium
Autonomous fish-bots based on the common carp are swimming free in the London Aquarium. (re: Michael Swanwick)

Transparent Aluminum Armor Tested By Military
Transparent aluminum armor (ALON) well along in testing, and is considered superior to other see-through choices. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

'Cellborg' Humidity Gauge First Bacterial Cyborg
For the first time, a living bacterium is assimilated borg-style into an electronic circuit. Resistance is futile! (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Siemens Working On Stephenson's 'Mediatron'
Siemens has lowered the price of thin, flexibles displays enough to bring the mediatron, a flexible, updatable newspaper, into reality. (re: Neal Stephenson)

AESA Radars Used As 'Death Ray' Weapons?
The Pentagon is actively developing electronically scanned array (AESA) radars that could be used as weapons. (re: George Griffith)

TactaPad Puts Your Hands In The Digital World
TactaPad lets you put your hands right into the digital world, allowing you to manipulate objects on the screen as easily as possible. (re: Various)

Lab Mice Unexpectedly Regenerate Limbs, Organs
Mice bred to contract lupus are found to regrow limbs and organs. (re: Neal Asher)

Spider Blood In Amber Brings Jurassic Park Closer
Is it possible to get DNA from the blood of this ancient spider. (re: David Brin)

iRobot Scooba And Heinlein's 'Hired Girl' Robot
Heinlein thought of it - iRobot implemented it - it only took us fifty years to catch up to RAH (this time). (re: Robert Heinlein)

Autonomous Soaring Project UAV Cloud Swift
NASA experiments with tiny surveillance planes that can catch air currents autonomously. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Blinkx.tv And Heinlein's Newsbox
Robert Heinlein wrote about something similar two generations ago. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Pioneer 3D Hand Waving Interface
Here's a way to draw pictures in the air - on your PC. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Robot English Teacher From KAIRA
A robotic english teacher is now being used in pilot programs in Seoul, Korea. (re: James Blish)