Space Mirrors Could Create Mars Pocket-Eden
Rigel Woida has been given funding to explore an unusual means of making Mars more comfortable for human exploration. (re: Niven, Pournelle, Flynn)

UK SimCity-Style Social Policy Model - A Kingdom In A Box
UK social science researchers make an old idea new again - Stanislaw Lem's 'kingdom in a box.' (re: Stanislaw Lem)

Terminator Tongues - USAF Seeks Voice Transformation Tech
Why does the USAF want soldiers to be able to talk like someone else? (re: Various)

Robots Making Smaller Robots Making Smaller Robots
Robotic technologies make possible smaller and smaller manufactured goods - too small for people to make. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)

Dr. Google Works For Patients, Doctors
Physicians who used search engine giant Google to make diagnoses did amazingly well. (re: Various)

Propulsion System For 'Fantastic Voyage' Robot
A novel propulsion system that works for micro-robots to be injected inside the body. (re: Harry Kleiner)

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)