Robotender Ernie First Robot Bartender
This is a surprisingly early robotic bartender that could really do it all - except maybe ask for your keys. (re: Alfred Bester)

RI-MAN Face Tracking, Electronic Nose Robot Update
This 'bot has some great features not documented earlier. (re: Katsuhiro Otomo)

Cheoptics 360 3D Display Technology
This new display would be perfect for tradeshows and conventions, not to mention the control room of your rocket ship. (re: Edmond Hamilton)

Snake-Arm Robot In A Plane
No, really. There are snake-arm robots in planes - not on planes, but in them. (re: H.G. Wells)

Cabrini-Green Windy City Musical Building
The partially demolished towers of Cabrini-Green project in Chicago are now playing mournful music appropriate to the Windy City. (re: George R.R. Martin)

Sketch Furniture Ultra Rapid Prototyping
Amazing technology so advanced only children's fantasy could predict it; the purple crayon is included. (re: Murray Leinster)

NextFest 2006 Devices, Stories And Pictures
NextFest had so many cool things that I'm still digging into my pile of digital photos and writing stories. (re: Various)

World's Highest Resolution Seamless Display Has 60M Pixels
Not just a hi-res display, this is a means of having an arbitrarily large high resolution display. Sixty million pixels is just the beginning. (re: Ray Bradbury)

HAL Robotic Suit Ready For Production
Those Heinlein robotic exoskeletons you ordered? Limited functionality suits will soon be available for about $600 per month. (re: )

Unmanned Hotels Project By Itochu/Orico
The impersonal hotel gets even more so; the Hotel Hendrix from Altered Carbon comes closer. (re: Richard Morgan)

World's First Artificial Human Liver Grown In Lab
The creation of 'mini-livers' from stem cells may be in time to avoid the dangers of too much demand in the organ transplant field. (re: Larry Niven)

Robotic Hands Get A Grip
Blue collar droids get their wish this Christmas - better hands! (re: Various)

N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Insect From Tyco
This so-called toy is a terrifying realization of the deadly insect robots in Crichton's Runaway; Gene Simmons, beware! (re: Michael Crichton)

Shadow Robot Hand With Air Muscles
The Shadow Hand provides a very humanlike feel, due to the unique muscles that power hand motions; seen at NextFest 2006. (re: Various)

Biological Cybernetics Lab Dextrous Robot Hand
Very quick to respond, the only difference is the 'clacking' sound it made when it gestured; seen at NextFest 2006. (re: Various)

Bionic Dolphins And Whale Waldoes
Amazing prototype submersible is not your father's water toy; this baby's got a Corvette engine. (re: David Brin)