ANPR Cams - Britain's Roadside Big Brother
The UK's ANPR cameras will log the movement of every vehicle on the roads. (re: Robert Heinlein)

T-Rot Thinking Robot Tends Bar, Chats
Finally, a real live bartending robot, who will mix and hand you your drink and listen to your troubles. (re: Harry Harrison)

Amazon Mechanical Turk - Humans Help Slow Computers
It turns out that there are still a few things that humans are good for, as far as computers are concerned. (re: Amitav Ghosh)

AI Software 'Robot' Lawyers Next Year
Software lawyers from Brin novel are just around the corner. (re: David Brin)

Implant For Nausea Relief
Newly patented system for relieving nausea already suggested by Lois McMaster Bujold. (re: Lois McMaster Bujold)

Earth Skunk Cabbage And Martian Desert Cabbage
Heinlein also wrote about cabbages that could regulate their internal temperature. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Military Sets PHASR On Stun
Send security down to the transporter - and don't forget the PHASR rifles. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

IMPASS Robot Has Snow Crash 'Smart Wheels'
Neal Stephenson's smart wheels from Snow Crash are ready to move off the drawing board. (re: Neal Stephenson)

DARPA's Radiation Decontamination (And 'Doc' Smith's Dekon)
DARPA and a host of scientists are working on decontamination techniques for dirty bombs. (re: E.E. 'Doc' Smith)

Bush Robots - Fingers On Your Fingers On Your Fingers...
From Heinlein to Moravec to MacLeod - bush robots are cool. (re: Robert Forward)

TMSUK Robot Carries Your Bags
John Brunner referred to an implementation of this idea that sounded like more fun. (re: John Brunner)

Remote Control For Humans
NTT's prototype of a consumer version of a galvanic vestibular stimulation machine really works. (re: Various)

Robofish Autonomous Fish-bot At London Acquarium
Autonomous fish-bots based on the common carp are swimming free in the London Aquarium. (re: Michael Swanwick)

Transparent Aluminum Armor Tested By Military
Transparent aluminum armor (ALON) well along in testing, and is considered superior to other see-through choices. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

'Cellborg' Humidity Gauge First Bacterial Cyborg
For the first time, a living bacterium is assimilated borg-style into an electronic circuit. Resistance is futile! (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Siemens Working On Stephenson's 'Mediatron'
Siemens has lowered the price of thin, flexibles displays enough to bring the mediatron, a flexible, updatable newspaper, into reality. (re: Neal Stephenson)