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Meet Your Miniature Android Duplicate
New company makes bespoke androids based on your photograph; Chuckie never had it so good. (re: Manly Wade Wellman)

Hoverit Lounger Suspended Vonnegut Dream
Quite the lifestyle enhancement, this clear acrylic lets you lounge upon an invisible field of magnetic force. Now with Hoverit Lounger video! (re: Kurt Vonnegut)

Cloaca No. 5 Bionic Bowel, At Last
This art project has a somewhat more serious side; some people with gastric, colon or other cancers could use a bionic replacement. (re: Various)

Skynet Now Generating Paralinguistic Phenomena Via Markup In Text-to-Speech Syntheses
New IBM speech tech simulates human speech so well, you may not be able to judge by voice alone whether it is your mother - or a Terminator. (re: Various)

Reputation As Property
Whether you say 'whuffie' or 'strakh,' young and old sf fans understand the value of reputation. (re: Jack Vance)

Pong-Playing Robot Plus Three Bonus Robot Gamers
This simple yet sort of scary robot excels at one task - computer pong. Oh, and see 3 more examples of robots playing as well as you. (re: Various)

Radio-Controlled Beetle By UC Berkeley
The researchers picked rhinoceros beetles because they look cool - enslaved. (re: Thomas A. Easton)

EATR - DARPA's Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot
Is a voracious autonomous robot able to feed itself and sustain free movement throughout all of eternity a really neat idea? DARPA thinks so - and so do I. (re: Philip Reeve)

Minority Report Ads Watching You Always
Those Minority Report ads that looked stylish in 2002 are starting to look a bit more intrusive now. (re: Steven Spielberg)

Dynamic Agenda Wallpaper Glows With Your Achievements
This room-sized tribute to your busy life is the best possible way to dominate a meeting. (re: Issac Asimov)

Planetary Hard Drive
Storing information in natural deposits and fields. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Inflatable Church Bouncy Like Heavenly Clouds
Inflatable churches make a lot of sense, just as they did in the novel I read over thirty years ago. (re: John Brunner)

Samsung W7900 Show Cell Phone Digital Projector
Video shows an impressive little projector inside a cell phone; wouldn't you rather watch your pocket videos on a larger screen? (re: Jack Vance)

Biomimetic Robots Blow Your Mind
Robot models challenge your perception of the entire industry; shockingly Suessian. (re: Various)

Sweatbot SAM - Sweating Agile Manniquin
Handy industrial research robot or metaphor for our consumer culture? You be the judge. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Roadside LED Signs May Not Be Believed
Got kind of a whiff of Neuromancer from this story; makes me think twice about those signs, though. (re: William Gibson)

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