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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 2,200 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 3,700 Science Fiction in the News articles.

The Zapata Air Scooter Would Be Great In A Science Fiction Story
'Betty's slapdash style.' (11/23/2025)
Thermostabilized Wet Meat Product (NASA Prototype)
There are no orbiting Michelin stars. Yet. (11/21/2025)
Could Crystal Batteries Generate Power For Centuries?
'Power could be compressed thus into an inch-square cube of what looked like blue-white ice' - Edmond Hamilton, 1940. (11/19/2025)
India Ponders Always-On Smartphone Location Tracking
'It is necessary... for your own protection.' - Jack Vance, 1954. (11/17/2025)
Amazon Will Send You Heinlein's Knockdown Cabin
'It's so light that you can set it up in five minutes by yourself...' - Robert Heinlein, 1940. (11/15/2025)
Is It Time To Forbid Human Driving?
'Heavy penalties... were to be applied to any one found driving manually-controlled machines.' - Bernard Brown, 1934. (11/13/2025)
Replace The Smartphone With A Connected Edge Node For AI Inference
'Buy a Little Dingbat... electropen, wrist watch, pocketphone, pocket radio, billfold ... all in one.' - Raymond F. Jones, 1945. (11/11/2025)
Artificial Skin For Robots Is Coming Right Along
'... an elastic, tinted material that had all the feel and appearance of human flesh and epidermis.' - Harl Vincent (1934) (11/9/2025)
Robot Guard Dog On Duty
I might also be thinking of K-9 from Doctor Who. (11/7/2025)
Wearable Artificial Fabric Muscles
'It is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature...' HG Wells, 1898. (11/5/2025)
BrainBridge Concept Transplant Of Human Head Proposed
'Briquet’s head seemed to think that to find and attach a new body to her head was as easy as to fit and sew a new dress.' - Alexander Belaev (1925) (11/3/2025)
Google's Nano Banana Pro Presents Handwritten Math Solutions
'...copy was turned out in a charming and entirely feminine handwriting.' - Isaac Asimov (1949) (11/1/2025)
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Human Head Transplant
Putting a human head on a new body, surgically.
(From Professor Dowell's Head [1925] by Alexander  Belaev)
Robot Farm
A farm staffed and run entirely by robots.
(From Let Freedom Ring [1950] by Fritz  Leiber)
Personality For Robots
Making each robot distinctive.
(From Reunion on Ganymede [1938] by Clifford  Simak)
Oblong
A smartphone.
(From Klara and the Sun [2021] by Kazuo  Ishiguro)
Fishcam
Seeing through the eyes of a robotic fish.
(From Slow Life [2002] by Michael  Swanwick)
Dingbat
An alien mechanical parasite.
(From Deadly Host [1945] by Raymond F.  Jones)
Prowlie
A police vehicle.
(From Stand on Zanzibar [1968] by John  Brunner)
End of Cars
Humanity finally sees sense and gets rid of personal cars.
(From Stand on Zanzibar [1968] by John  Brunner)
Replacement of Brain with Computer
Removal of the brain of an ordinary man, and installation of a calculating machine.
(From The Ableist Man in the World [1879] by Edward Page  Mitchell)
Stinger
A biological assassin.
(From The Hanging Stranger [1953] by Philip K.  Dick)
Robot Hands
Human-like appendages for the ends of upper limbs.
(From The Iron World [1937] by Otis Adelbert  Kline)
Large Utility Calibrated Yield (LUCY)
Storage of solar and wind power as potential energy.
(From Efficiency [2022] by Paolo  Bacigalupi)
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