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"One could imagine a very ascetic sort of life ... where the body is ignored. This is something I've played with in my books, where people hate to be reminded sometimes that they have bodies, they find it very slow and tedious."
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Ed Morris really isn't up to a night on the town after dealing with endless visual ads on the way home from work on Ganymede.
For other science-fictional fashions, check out the biofabric from a 1970 J.G. Ballard story, and the scramble suit from PKD's A Scanner Darkly.
Consider the disappearing dress - an art project created by Helen Storey and a group of artisans.
(The Disappearing Dress [video file])
The garment is constructed of a water soluble polymer. When dissolved the fabric turns into a tiny amount of liquid gel which can be reconstituted into a solid once more or used to grow plants. The dress is a dramatic illustration of how the material behaves. In a light rain, the disappearing dress would act kind of like a plastirobe - at first opaque, then increasingly transparent. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'...there was no one alive who had ever seen them. But they existed in the Life Bank.'
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''...some bored drone pusher in a remote driving centre...'
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'Ames tinkered around with something on the instrument board when he got in; and in a few moments we were off.'
Torobo Humanoid Robot Hammers A Nail
7-axis dual arms, 3-axis waist (pitch, pitch, yaw), 3-axis neck (yaw, pitch, roll), and 4-axis undercarriage!
Lava Tubes On Moon And Mars
'...it never was built, or anything like that; it's just a big volcanic bubble.'
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'the monitors - almond-sized aerostats...'
Chaffeur Robot Musashi Will Drive Your Regular Car
'What would you do,' Eric asked the robot cabdriver, 'if your wife had turned to stone, your best friend were a toad, and you had lost your job?'
Space Exporers! Now, You Can Drink Your Own Urine
'those suits they wear -- call them 'stillsuits' -- that reclaim the body's own water...'
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