Rhenium Diboride Like Metal, Crystal
Tip for creating latest super-tough material found in Doc Smith. (re: E.E. 'Doc' Smith)

Kryptonite Discovered By Scientist
Boffins are finally able to identify mysterious mineral. (re: DC Comics)

Almost Niven's Flashlight Laser
Take a look for yourself at this one. (re: Larry Niven)

Speciation Driven By Cosmic Cycles?
Poul Anderson came up with something very similar to this idea fifty years ago. (re: Poul Anderson)

Deflector Shields For Spacecraft?
Interesting idea from the UK on how to protect space travelers Star Trek-style. (re: E.E. 'Doc' Smith)

Building Shaker Quake Machine
Engineers get out from behind their laptops and shake up a real 275-ton building. (re: Vernor Vinge)

Clever Clocks Get You Up
Can't get up in the morning? Here's a handful of clocks that use every trick in the book to wake you up. (re: Various)

Nanotech Self-Healing Houses
If a house had the right kind of walls, could it alter enough to heal itself? (re: J.G. Ballard)

Interview With Greg Bear On Quantico
This exclusive Technovelgy interview includes Greg Bear's comments on the ideas and devices used in his book Quantico. (re: Greg Bear)

Internet Routing In Space Now, Venus Equilateral Station Later
Sooner or later, there's going to be a real communications network up there - George O. Smith knew it in 1942. (re: George O. Smith)

Big Brother Now Watching George Orwell's House
Here's an added incentive to visit the house in which George Orwell wrote 1984 - something not mentioned in the guidebooks. (re: George Orwell)

Star Wars Binoculars A Cognitive Technology Threat Warning
Come on, you've wanted some of those nifty Star Wars binoculars since about 1977 - admit it. (re: George Lucas)

Domo Robot No Mere Housekeeper
Domo is back in the news with new advances in assistive robotic technologies. (re: Isaac Asimov)

Largest OLED Display
This new display is getting closer to those cool TVs that we can just unroll and hang wherever we like. (re: E.C. Tubb)

Nanogenerator Harvests Mechanical Energy
We might not need to keep track of a half-dozen little charger devices if this works. (re: Frank Herbert)

UK's Orwellian 'Baby' Brother Cams
The British are really going overboard with their surveillance society. (re: George Orwell)