http://www.technovelgy.com/ The inventions of sf writers come to life in today's headlines at Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction. en-us Copyright 2004-2013, Bill Christensen Not your typical 'smart bullet' approach. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3967 'It rested among green parklands and... stood in total isolation, a glittering block of whites and flashing windows dotted with colors.'- Pournelle and Niven, 1981 (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3966 'George Walt's corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...'- Philip K. Dick, 1964. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3965 '...The ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound.'- Ray Bradbury, 1953. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3964 See the future of handheld, personal medical devices used with your smartphone. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3963 'This was the center of Interplanetary Communications.'- George O. Smith, 1942. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3962 '... the Scarab [flying robot] buzzed into the great workroom as any intruding insect might...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3961 'When he had first built them, they had been crude indeed, flying mechanisms with little more than a reflex-response unit.'- Philip E. High, 1968. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3960 Let's make the Roujin Z-0001 Robotic Bed! (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3959 'He waved his hand and the circuit switched abruptly.'- Philip K. Dick, 1955. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3958 '...leaning against one of the slender stalks of a sunshade-photocell collector.'- David Brin, 1990. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3957 Organlegging may not be the growth industry that some fear. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3956 'Sound trackers on the roof could zero in on weapons action...'-Greg Bear, 2007. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3955 'They have ... germs that eat pretty near anything, and produce oil as a waste product.'- Hal Clement, 1950. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3954 'It turns sunlight into electricity, just like any solar power converter, but you spray it on.'- Larry Niven, 1995. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3953 'Black, oblong, no larger than the end of Paul's thumb... It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers.'- Frank Herbert, 1965. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3952 'It took about seven minutes ... for the cookie cutters to be randomly distributed throughout the victim's organs and limbs.'- Neal Stephenson, 1995. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3951 'He sipped the cognac that the robot bartender handed him...'- Alfred Bester, 1956. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3950 'To this Foyle affixed a power pack the size of a pea and switched it on.'- Alfred Bester, 1956. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3948 'His hands flashed over the keyboard - it had not been there a moment before, but it was operative...'- Frederik Pohl, 1965. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3947 A drug that party relieves the need for sleep. From the 1966 story Fantastic Voyage (Novel) (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2407 Water ice at the poles of the Moon. From the 1990 story The Ring of Charon (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2406 A fanciful design for a device that gathers solar energy. From the 1990 story Earth (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2405 Specialized humans who excel at engineering tasks. From the 2006 story Storm Thief (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2404 A device that allows a pursuer to follow a spaceship through hyperspace. From the 1953 story Second Foundation (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2403 A software program that copies itself to other computers. From the 1970 story The Scarred Man (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2402 Device secured to a person that ensures compliant behavior by threat of force. From the 2006 story Storm Thief (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2400 Device for secure communication. From the 2006 story Storm Thief (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2399