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Miss Alabama Beauty Contest Offers Different Standards
'...they moved with the ease of dandelion puffs.' - Jack Vance, 1952. (11/29/2024) |
Has Musk Given Up On Full Self Driving (FSD)?
'...some bored drone pusher in a remote driving centre...' - Charles Stross, 2007. (11/27/2024) |
Prufrock-3 'The Monster' Ready To Launch
Just go for it. (11/25/2024) |
Drones In Vast Airborne Grids
'These pods were programmed to hang in space in a hexagonal grid pattern...' (11/23/2024) |
Starship Special Edition For Lunar Shuttle
Love those special edition spaceships. (11/21/2024) |
Capturing Asteroids With Nets
'...the meteor caught and halted just as a small boy catches a swift ball in his cap.' V.E. Thiessen, 1947. (11/19/2024) |
Project Hyperion - Generation Ship Designers Needed!
'We have decided that it shall be but one ship... it must contain everything needed to take us through the generations.' - Judson Reeves, 1930. (11/17/2024) |
AI Welfare Position At Anthropic Filled By Human
'You’re the robopsychologist of the plant, so you’re to study the robot itself...' - Isaac Asimov, 1941. (11/15/2024) |
Marslink Proposed By SpaceX
'It was the heart of the Solar System's communication line...' - George O. Smith, 1942. (11/13/2024) |
Simple Way To Defeat AI Face Recognition
'... designed to foil facial recognition systems.' - Neal Stephenson, 2019. (11/11/2024) |
Wood-Panelled LignoSat Launched
'The Consul remembered his first glimpse of the kilometer-long treeship...' - Dan Simmons, 1989. (11/9/2024) |
Laser-Beam Welding In Orbital Factories
'His contract with Space Industries required him to work summers in their orbital factory.' - Jerry Pournelle, 1976. (11/7/2024) |
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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) |
Disk-Shaped Landing Pads
Used instead of typical landing gear with wheels.
(From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
Precrime
A system by which criminal acts are known before they occur.
(From The Minority Report [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
Landing Legs
Projections from the base of a space craft that allow it to land upright in gravity.
(From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
Celestial Atlas
Planet-by-planet descriptions throughout known space.
(From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
Cometeering
Exploring a comet!
(From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Command-Disk
A device that sends out audible tones to control flesh-monsters.
(From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Space-Phone
A device for communicating with space ships, both ship-to-ship and ground-to-ship.
(From The Message From Space [1930] by David M. Speaker) |
Ascension-Framework
A tower to which the space craft is attached, holding it vertical for its flight upward.
(From Evans of the Earth-Guard [1930] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Funnel-Shaped Landing Framework
A special purpose landing dock area that is wider at the top until the craft is captured toward the bottom.
(From Evans of the Earth-Guard [1930] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Landing Arms
Arms that poke out from a space craft to allow it to land on solid ground, in gravity.
(From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
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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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