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Cortana, Your Personal Assistant
'If I were you, Man Forrester, which is to say, if I were human...'- Frederik Pohl, 1965. (re: Frekerik Pohl)

Pepper, Your Robot Companion
'She's - she's not like a machine. She's like a person. A living person.'- Philip K. Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Secret Service Wants Sarcasm-Detection Software
There must be some website able to help them. (re: Matt Groening)

ForceShoes, NASA's Exercise Sandals For Astronauts
'Joe got out the gravity-simulator harnesses.'- Murray Leinster, 1953. (re: Jack Williamson)

Google Developing 'KITT' Functionality For Android?
Ah, but when will they develop the 'Hasselhoff' functionality? (re: Various)

Brainflight Brain-Controlled Airplane
Mr Gant, you must think in Russian. Can you do that? (re: Various)

Skype's Translator Like Gernsback's Language Rectifier
'He immediately turned the small shining disc of the Language Rectifier on his instrument till the pointer rested on French.'- Hugo Gernsback, 1911. (re: Hugo Gernsback)

Is The OutRunner Robot Like Smartwheels?
'Each spoke telescopes into five sections.'- Neal Stephenson, 1992. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Self-Healing Plastic Fixes Even Big Holes
'The room had been strained and healed faultily....'- JG Ballard, 1962. (re: JG Ballard)

3D Printed Food Served In German Nursing Homes
'The food slot gave him flat reddish-brown bricks.'- Larry Niven, 1970. (re: Larry Niven)

Google Autonomous Electric Car Prototype Unveiled
'She gestured him ahead of her, toward a bubble-car...'- Larry Niven, 1976. (re: Larry Niven)

Samsung Round Wearable And HG Wells
'He flicked out a little appliance the size and appearance of a keyless watch'- HG Wells, 1899. (re: HG Wells)

Focus Life Gear Protects From Virtual World
'Stooping, he peeled off thick overtrousers as massive as the coat.'- Robert Heinlein, 1941. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Tesla's 100th Supercharger Station!
'Recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village..'- John Jacob Astor IV. 1894. (re: John Jacob Astor IV)

Crabster Robot Deployed At Korea's Sewol Ferry Disaster
Remote-controlled robots helping out in time of need. (re: HG Wells)

GiraffPlus Robot Helps Elderly At Home
SF writers wrote about telemedicine much earlier than you think. (re: EM Forster)

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