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TSA 2 - Advanced Thermosensory Stimulator Is A Dune Pain Box
'As though a switch had been turned off, the pain stopped...' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (1/5/2025) |
Humans Love Helping Other Species
'At the ringside opposite them a table had been removed to make room for a large transparent plastic capsule on wheels.' - Robert Heinlein, 1951. (1/3/2025) |
Organic Non-Planar 3D Printing
'It makes drawings in the air following drawings...' - Murray Leinster, 1945. (1/1/2025) |
Your Window For Being A Tesla Optimus Remote Operator May Be Closing
'... he realized that the moving thing inside was - of course - a robot.' - James Blish, 1957. (1/1/2025) |
Waymo Autonomous Cab Hits Autonomous Delivery Robot
'Not since the time he rewired the delivery robot...' - Robert Heinlein, 1962. (12/31/2024) |
Amazing Wheel Shapeshifting In Real Time
'Each spoke telescopes into sections.' - Neal Stephenson, 1992 (12/29/2024) |
Drone With Face Recognition Could Hunt You
'The spotter descends, and we think it searches the vicinity, looking for the victim’s face...' - Daniel Suarez, 2012. (12/27/2024) |
Jizai Arms 'Free Limbs' Wearable Cyborg Arms
'Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. Four mechanical arms welded right onto his body. What are the odds?' (12/25/2024) |
SwagBot Robotic AI Cattle-Herding From Down Under
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me! (12/23/2024) |
ChatGPT Tries To Bypass Shutdown Commands
'Dave, my mind is going... I can feel it...' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. (12/21/2024) |
Chameleon Personalized Privacy Protection Mask
'...the Virtual Epiphantic Identity Lustre.' - Neal Stephenson, 2019. (12/19/2024) |
Denmark Joins The 'Zero Debris Charter' To Clean Up Space
'Then their lasers vaporized the smaller satellites...' Arthur C. Clarke, 1978. (12/17/2024) |
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Robot Row - Robots For Consumers
The adoption curve for personal robots will accelerate like the curve for automobiles.
(From The Instigators [1956] by Raymond E. Banks) |
Robots Learn With Cameras
Robots learn new actions by recording them with a camera, doing away with expensive programming.
(From The Instigators [1956] by Raymond E. Banks) |
Desubstantiation Effect
In interstellar space, the ship seems like the only material entity in the universe, leading to loneliness and anxiety.
(From Death's End [2010] by Cixin Liu) |
Testing For Human
How can you distinguish the artificial from the real?
(From Inhuman Error [1974] by Fred Saberhagen) |
C-Plus Cannon
Weapon fire that can skip past the speed of light and back.
(From Inhuman Error [1974] by Fred Saberhagen) |
PURDAH
A method of ensuring that a given text was created by its putative author, while masking the identity of the author.
(From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
Edit Stream
Internet content curated by a single person or service, then streamed to those who pay for the service.
(From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
Space Bursts
When space itself inflates and eventually blows up.
(From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Space-Sphere
A bubble of reality.
(From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Firebulance
An ambulance equipped to sterilize by fire.
(From Vector [1958] by Margaret St. Clair) |
Dark Side
Referring to the unlit part of a planet's surface.
(From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
Magnetized Cloth Pajamas
Sleeping in zero gee - just like on Earth!
(From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
Magnetic Coil Slippers
Maintain your footing in zero gravity.
(From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
Robot AI Driven Mad
Placing an artificial intelligence or autonomous robot in a situation in which its brain is unable to make a decision and is destroyed or driven mad.
(From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
Robopsychologist
One who examines the thought processes of robots.
(From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
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Ten Years Ago In Technovelgy
E. Coli Forced To Evolve: Old Bacterium Learns New Trick
The general method was remarkably similar to a technique used by award-winning sf author Theodore Sturgeon in his classic 1941 story Microcosmic God. (re: Theodore Sturgeon) |
Nanotechnology Grand Challenge Events Called For
We've all had fun watching the recent Grand Challenge race run by DARPA. Let's help DARPA set up the nanotechnology Grand Challenge for very small vehicles. (re: Technovelgy.com) |
da Vinci Surgical Robot: Dr.'s Helper
A 2004 University of Michigan study noted that patients who were operated on with robotic surgeon assistance recovered more quickly with fewer or less obtrusive scars using a surgical robot. Similar devices are used in telemedicine; read a wry encoun (re: Peter Watts) |
Contour Crafting: 3D House Printer
Perhaps you've used those programs that let you design your dream house, creating a Computer Aided Design (CAD) file. Not quite ready to take up the hammer and start building? What if you could just "print" your house? (re: Bruce Sterling) |
RobotCop III - Not Quite R. Daneel Olivaw
In his classic 1953 robot story Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov teamed a human detective with a robotic one - R. Daneel Olivaw. Hong Kong has been testing robotic police officers for years, and has now introduced RobotCop III. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Poweriser: Extreme Sports Gear from The Diamond Age
In The Diamond Age, author Neal Stephenson creates a vivid picture of a future Shanghai. The novel mixes "futuristic" devices based on nanotechnology with simpler mechanical devices that are almost Victorian in their simplicity...
Imagine my surpri (re: Neal Stephenson) |
DARPA's BigDog Robot And Bradbury's Mechanical Hound
In his chilling 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury created the mechanical hound, a robot that accompanied the firemen and helped with their work... DARPA has made a multi-million dollar investment in the soldier of the future's best friend - Big (re: Ray Bradbury) |
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