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NextFest 2005 - Festival Of Technovelgy
Yes, you read that right - technovelgy, ideas and inventions straight from science fiction books and movies. Wired Magazine's NextFest 2005 event at the Navy Pier in Chicago is a science fiction-lovers dream come true; everywhere you look, scientists and engineers have read fiction and wrought fact.
(One of the many NextFest pavillions)
Here are links to the new stories:
Readers of Technovelgy.com are already familiar with many of the devices on exhibit; here are links to the stories:- Packbot
(See Roomba's Brother Packbot) - Robonaut
(See Robonaut Performs Hubble Repair Tasks) - Solar Sail
(See Jack Vance's Incredibly Thin Solar Sail) - Robolobster and Robot Lamphrey
(See Biomimetic Robot Animals - Not All Are Cute) - Cloned Animals
(See Cloned Cats Have 9+n Lives) - CirculaFloor
(See CirculaFloor - Smart Tile Holodeck?) - Heliodisplay
(See Future Display Technology) - Verb for shoe
(See Vectrasense Thinkshoe) - Hypersonic sound
(See Loudspeaker Just For You)
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