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PaXini Supersensitive Robot Fingers
'My fingers are not that sensitive...' - Ray Cummings, 1931. (re: Ray Cummings)

Congress Considers Automatic Emergency Braking, One Hundred Years Too Late
'The greatest problem of all was the elimination of the human element of braking together with its inevitable time lag.' - Bernhard Brown, 1934. (re: Bernard Brown)

The Desert Ship Sailed In Imagination
'Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue smoke.' - Ray Bradbury, 1950. (re: Ray Bradbury)

The Zapata Air Scooter Would Be Great In A Science Fiction Story
'Betty's slapdash style.' (re: Robert Heinlein)

Thermostabilized Wet Meat Product (NASA Prototype)
There are no orbiting Michelin stars. Yet. (re: Various)

India Ponders Always-On Smartphone Location Tracking
'It is necessary... for your own protection.' - Jack Vance, 1954. (re: Jack Vance)

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. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Is It Time To Forbid Human Driving?
'Heavy penalties... were to be applied to any one found driving manually-controlled machines.' - Bernard Brown, 1934. (re: Bernard Brown)

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) (re: Harl VIncent)

Robot Guard Dog On Duty
I might also be thinking of K-9 from Doctor Who. (re: Neal Stephenson)

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. (re: HG Wells)

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) (re: Alexander Belaev)

Google's Nano Banana Pro Presents Handwritten Math Solutions
'...copy was turned out in a charming and entirely feminine handwriting.' - Isaac Asimov (1949) (re: Isaac Asimov)

Edible Meat-Like Fungus Like Barbara Hambly's Slunch?
'It was almost unheard of for slunch to spread that fast...' - Barbara Hambly, 1985. (re: Barbara Hambly )

Sunday Robotics 'Memo' Bot Has Unique Training Glove
'He then started hand movements of definite pattern...' - Robert Heinlein, 1942 (re: Robert Heinlein)

Woman Marries Computer, Vonnegut's Dream Comes True
'Men are made of protoplasm... Lasts forever.' - Kurt Vonnegut (re: Kurt Vonnegut)

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