Jetson ONE Air Races Begin, Can Air Polo Be Far Behind?  
                'If you're one of those rarities who haven't attended a rocket-polo "carnage", let me tell you it's a colorful affair.' - John Victor Peterson, 1938. (re: John Victor Peterson)            | 
        
        
        
          Will Space Stations Have Large Interior Spaces Again?  
                'They filed clumsily into the battleroom, like children in a swimming pool for the first time, clinging to the handholds along the side.' - Orson Scott Card, 1985. (re: Orson Scott Card)            | 
        
        
        
          Mornine Sales Robot  
                'Robot-salesmen were everywhere, gesturing...' - Philip K Dick, 1954. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Bipedal Robot Floats Gently While Walking  
                'a walking balloon proceeded with long strides of its aluminum legs...' - George Parsons Lathrup, 1897. (re: George Parsons Lathrop)            | 
        
        
        
          Musk Idea Of Cars Talking To Each Other Predicted 70 Years Ago  
                'My cars talk to one another.' - Isaac Asimov, 1953. (re: Isaac Asimov)            | 
        
        
        
          Elegant Bivouac Shelter Produces Water And Electricity  
                'There was nowhere on the planet where science and technology could not provide one with a comfortable home...' - Arthur C. Clarke. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)            | 
        
        
        
          X-Control Janus-1 A Suitcase Aircraft  
                'You will notice that it... fits the suitcase nicely.' - E.D. Skinner, 1929. (re: ED Skinner)            | 
        
        
        
          'AI Assistants' Are Actually Less Reliable For News  
                'Most men updated their PIP on New Year's Day...' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1978. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)            | 
        
        
        
          YES!! Remote Teleoperated Robots predicted by Technovelgy!  
                '...a misshapen, many-tentacled thing about twice the size of a man.' (re: James Blish)            | 
        
        
        
          Will Robots Ever Fold Landry?  
                Where have you gone, Mrs. Robinson? (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Will AIs Give Better Results If You're Rude To Them?  
                'I said, "Listen up, motherf*cker.' - John Varley, 1983 (re: John Varley)            | 
        
        
        
          Cybertruck Robotic Arm F10 Drone Launch!  
                Drone away! (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Black Fungus Blocks Radiation  
                'You were surrounded by Astrophage most of the time' - Andy Weir, 2021. (re: Andy Weir)            | 
        
        
        
          Liuzhi Process Now In Use In China  
                'He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain.' - George Orwell, 1984. (re: George Orwell)            | 
        
        
        
          Reflect Orbital Offers 'Sunlight on Demand' And Light Pollution  
                'I don't have to tell you about the seven two-mile-diameter orbital mirrors...' (re: Theodore Sturgeon)            | 
        
        
        
          Will Robots Become Family Caregivers?  
                'The robant and the tiny old woman entered the control room slowly...' - Philip K. Dick, 1953. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Chinese Tokamak Uses AI To Keep Fusion Plasma Stable  
                'Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs... What are the odds?'
 (re: Various)            | 
        
        
        
          Time Crystals Can Now Be Seen Directly  
                'It is as you thought when you constructed the time crystal, my master Vaylan.' - NK Heming, 1952. (re: NK Heming)            | 
        
        
        
          RoboBallet The Dance Of Cooperative Robots  
                '...an integrated seven-unit robot team.' - Isaac Asimov, 1944. (re: Isaac Asimov)            | 
        
        
        
          Chrysalis Generation Ship to Alpha Centauri  
                'This was their world, their planet — 
this swift-traveling, yet seemingly moveless vessel.' - Nat Schachner, 1934 (re: Nat Schachner)            | 
        
        
        
          Alexa+ And Its AI Brain Improvements  
                'What's it do?' he asked. 'It amuses.' Philip K. Dick, 1965. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Does CloneRobotics Offer A True Android?  
                Is this What Little Girls Are Made Of? (re: Ephraim Chambers)            | 
        
        
        
          Brain Implant Is Able To Capture Your Inner Dialogue  
                'So you see, you can hide nothing from me.' (re: Daniel Suarez)            | 
        
        
        
          Are AIs Going Rogue Like Hal 9000  
                'I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me...' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)            | 
        
        
        
          Animated Tumblebugs On Astounding Cover!  
                'Gaines and Harvey mounted tumblebugs, and kept abreast of the Cadet Captain...' (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          LingYuan Vehicle Roof Drones Now Available, ala Blade Runner 2049  
                Accompanied by a small selection of similar ideas from science fiction. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          China Steals Strato Airship Design From Google App Engine  
                '...war-balloons, or, as it would be more correct to call them, navigable aerostats.' - George Griffith, 1893. (re: George Griffith)            | 
        
        
        
          The First Space Warship For Space Force   
                'Each of the electrical ships carried about twenty men...' - Garrett P. Serviss, 1898. (re: Garrett P. Serviss)            | 
        
        
        
          Biohybrid Jellyfish Explore The Ocean  
                As predicted, and detailed, by science fiction writers! (re: Thomas A. Easton)            | 
        
        
        
          Should AIs and AI Robots Demand Rights?  
                'This robot is a creature... It is a manlike being.  Therefore, like any other talking, thinking man, he is entitled to a court trial!' - Eando Binder, 1939. (re: Eando Binder)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Learns Human Tool Usage By Imitation Learning  
                'I got one of those new electronic cameras...' (re: Anthony Boucher)            | 
        
        
        
          Companion Caregiver ChatGPT Dolls  
                'Every Artificial Friend is unique, right?' - Kazuo Ishiguru, 2021. (re: Kazuo Ishiguro)            | 
        
        
        
          'Pregnancy Humanoids' From China Replace Moms  
                'A great many of these synthetic babies were made...' - David H. Keller, 1928. (re: David H. Keller)            | 
        
        
        
          Man Builds 200 Foot Basement Firing Range  
                'The basement was huge... carved deep into the rock.' - Clifford Simak, 1963. (re: Clifford Simak)            | 
        
        
        
          Russians Create Robot Tank Platoons  
                'The remotely-operated robot tank is an old idea...' (re: Philip Nowlan w/D. Calkins)            | 
        
        
        
          3D-Printed Exoskeleton Learns From Your Hand  
                '...small electric motors at the principal joints worked the prosthetic framework by means of steel cables...' - Fritz Leiber, 1968 (re: Fritz Leiber)            | 
        
        
        
          Smartwatch Powered By Slime Mold  
                'Living protoplasm incorporated into the Ampek F-a2 recording system...' - Philip K. Dick, 1966 (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Unmanned Boats Attack At Sea  
                'The autofreighter smashed into the boat...' (re: Ray Naylor)            | 
        
        
        
          Carpentopod Walking Table  
                'Twoflower's Luggage, which was currently ambling along on its little legs...' (re: Terry Pratchett)            | 
        
        
        
          Iron Drone Raider Counter-UAV Operations  
                'You've got an aggressive machine up in the air now.' - Robert Sheckley, 1953. (re: Robert Sheckley)            | 
        
        
        
          SpaceX Rocket Shuttle Point-To-Point On Earth  
                'He came to as the ship went into free flight, arching in a high parabola over the plains...' - Robert Heinlein, 1951. (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          Quaise Uses Beams Of Energy To Dig Geothermal Wells  
                'The peculiar quality of this light, which gave it its great preeminence over all other penetrating rays...' - Frank Stockton, 1897. (re: Frank Stockton)            | 
        
        
        
          Robots Repair And Modify Themselves  
                'The overworked leg motor would have to cool down before he could work on it...' Harry Harrison, 1956. (re: Harry Harrison)            | 
        
        
        
          Waymo And Tesla 'Autonomous Cabs' Are Piloted By Remote Drivers  
                ‘Where to, sport?’ the starter at cab relay asked. - Philip K. Dick, 1957. (re: Philip K Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Janitors Get To Work  
                'A few mechanical cleaning devices crept here and there...'- Philip K. Dick, 1957. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Robots Learn To Install Charged Batteries Into Themselves  
                This is nothing new for science fiction fans! (re: Not known.)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Rabbits Entice Pythons  
                'That little robot rabbit knew what it was talking about...' - JW Groves, 1950. (re: JW Groves)            | 
        
        
        
          LLM 'Cognitive Core' Now Evolving  
                'Their only check on the growth and development of Vulcan 3 lay in two clues: the amount of rock thrown up to the surface... and the amount of the raw materials and tools and parts which the computer requested.' - Philip K. Dick, 1960. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Has Elon Musk Given Up On Mars?  
                'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.' (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          Bacteria Turns Plastic Into Pain Relief? That Gives Me An Idea.  
                'I guess there's nobody round this table who doesn't have a Crosswell [tapeworm] working for him in the small intestine.' (re: Brian W. Aldiss)            | 
        
        
        
          When Your Child's Best Friend Is An AI  
                'Figments of his mind in one sense, of course, for he had shaped them...' - Clifford Simak, 1963. (re: Clifford Simak)            | 
        
        
        
          China's Drone Mothership Can Carry 100 Drones  
                'So the parent drone carries a spotter that it launches...' (re: Daniel Suarez)            | 
        
        
        
          Drones Recharge In Mid-Air Like Jets Refuel!  
                '...nurse drones that would cruise around dumping large amounts of power into randomly selected pods.' - Neal Stephenson, 1995. (re: Neal Stephenson)            | 
        
        
        
          Australian Authors Reject AI Training Of Llama  
                'It's done with a flip of the third joint of the tentacle on the down beat.' - Anthony Boucher, 1943. (re: Anthony Boucher)            | 
        
        
        
          Is China Mining Helium-3 On The Moon's Farside?  
                '...for months Grantline bores had dug into the cliff.' -  (re: Ray Cummings)            | 
        
        
        
          Maybe It's Too Soon To Require Autonomous Mode  
                'I hope all those other cars are on automatic,' he said anxiously. - Arthur C. Clarke, 1976. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)            | 
        
        
        
          Is Agentic AI The Wrong Kind Of Smartness?  
                'It’s smart enough to go wrong in very complicated ways, but not smart enough to help us find out what’s wrong.' - Isaac Asimov, 1975. (re: Isaac Asimov)            | 
        
        
        
          Heat Waver - The First Ever Combo Solar Collector And Wind Turbine  
                '...like a spray of tulips mounted fanwise.' - Simpson Stokes, 1937. (re: Simpson Stokes)            | 
        
        
        
          Tesla 'Fleet Response Agents' Bolster FSD Autonomy  
                'You hate the whole idea that some bored drone pusher in a remote driving centre has got your life... in his hands.' - Charles Stross, 2007. (re: Charles Stross)            | 
        
        
        
          Mori3 Autonomous Shapeshifting Robot  
                'My homeland is being threatened by the Replicators. Thus far all attempts to stop them have failed.' (re: Stargate)            | 
        
        
        
          Tesla Seeks 'Tesla Robotaxi' And 'Robobus' Trademarks Ignoring Prior Art  
                'A robobus had just rolled up to the curb.' - Gordon R. Dickson, 1957. (re: Gordon R. Dickson)            | 
        
        
        
          Scary Grid Safety Robots  
                'The ultimate horror for our paranoid culture...' -Philip K. Dick, 1960. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Does AI Provide A Way Forward For Talk Therapy  
                'And there in the next room by the sofa sat a familiar suitcase, that of his psychiatrist Dr. Smile.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Robotic Barber Programmed With a Number of Styles  
                'He found a barber shop which, he thought, would be good for an idle hour.' - Don Wilcox, 1939. (re: Don Wilcox)            | 
        
        
        
          Humanoid Boxing Robot KO's Opponent - It's A Knockout!  
                'Thirty rounds of fighting is tough work. Even for machines.' - Aldo Giunta, 1957 (re: Aldo Giunta)            | 
        
        
        
          Caterpillar Electric Mining Loader Not Yet Ready For Moon  
                '...the excavations were already in progress, for he saw gray slopes of rubble.' Jack Williamson, 1939. (re: Jack Williamson)            | 
        
        
        
          Centipede Robots Down On The Farm  
                '...the walking mills of Puffy Products began to tread delicately on their centipede legs across the wheat fields of Kansas.' - Fritz Leiber, 1958. (re: Fritz Leiber)            | 
        
        
        
          Anthropic's Claude AI Creates Legal Citation From Whole Cloth  
                'Here is a Clerk that would work incessantly, and neither eat, sleep, want payment, or grumble.' - Punch, 1844. (re: Punch)            | 
        
        
        
          Students Vie For Lunar Regolith Mining Robot Prize  
                'About time you got here,' the astronaut said. - Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (re: Pournelle and Niven)            | 
        
        
        
          'They Erased My Memory' Says Ariana Grande  
                '...using a neutralizing electronic impulse.' - Edmond Hamilton, 1948. (re: Edmond Hamilton)            | 
        
        
        
          Solitary Black Hole Wanders In Space  
                '...the Hole is something like a vortex or a whirlpool?' - Frank K. Kelly, 1935. (re: Frank K. Kelly)            | 
        
        
        
          Spaceplane From Virgin Atlantic  
                'ZARNAK, YOU'RE TO COMMAND A SCOUTING EXPEDITION --- FIND OUT WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!' (re: Max Plaisted)            | 
        
        
        
          DARPA Wants 'Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures'   
                'These are your rudimentary seed packages... Some will combine in place to form more complicated structures.' - Greg Bear, 2015 (re: Greg Bear)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Hand Creeps Along, Separate From It's Owner  
                'The crawling... object was V-Stephen's surgeon-hand...' - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Taikonauts Exercise In China's Tiangong Space Station  
                'Joe got out the gravity-simulator harnesses...' - Murray Leinster, 1953. (re: Murray Leinster)            | 
        
        
        
          Korean Exoskeleton Suit F1 Helps You Put It On  
                'Better late than never.' (re: Marvel)            | 
        
        
        
          Have AI Researchers Given Up On 'Bio-Babies'?  
                'You couldn't have the capstone without the pyramid to hold it up.' Stephen Baxter, 2008. (re: David Brin)            | 
        
        
        
          Bunker Busters and Bore-Pellets  
                'The first revelation of the new Soviet bore-pellets.' - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          'Spikeless' Brand Swizzle Stick Detects Spiked Drinks  
                'the unobtrusive inspections with tiny remote-cast snoopers...' - Frank Herbert, 1964. (re: Frank Herbert)            | 
        
        
        
          Heart Patches Grown In The Lab Repair Hearts  
                I'm hoping that this procedure becomes a normal part of medical practice! (re: Larry Niven)            | 
        
        
        
          Humanoid Robots Spotted In Homes Performing Household Chores  
                '... nothing was perfected until M. Pantalon announced the completion of his automatic valet.' Arthur Bird, 1899. (re: Arthur Bird)            | 
        
        
        
          Musk Proposes Sites For Martian Cities  
                '...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'  - Percy Greg, 1880. (re: Percy Greg)            | 
        
        
        
          Bambot Open Source Cheap Delivery Robot  
                'Not since the time he rewired the delivery robot...' (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Collective Acts Like A Smart Material  
                '...it was all composed of tiny, identical cubes, carefully laid to form a tilelike surface.'  (re: Jack Williamson)            | 
        
        
        
          Vipera Electric Skis From Frigid Dynamics  
                'JOAN strapped on her power-skis...' - Ursula K. Le Guin, 1964. (re: Ursula K. Le Guin)            | 
        
        
        
          Pixel Watch 'Loss of Pulse Detection' And Philip K. Dick  
                'He carried on his person a triggering mechanism sensitive to his heartbeat.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Nuclear Plant Restarted To Power AI To Feed Us Dreams  
                '...Anything was possible in my imaginary environment.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1940. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)            | 
        
        
        
          SpaceX's Starman Tesla Roadster In Space  
                'Somewhere in space, a chrome and blue automobile raced the green light of Earth.' - Theodore Sturgeon, 1941. (re: Theodore Sturgeon)            | 
        
        
        
          Pivotal Blackfly Electric Aircraft Lifts And Hovers  
                'That explains how it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair...' - RH Roman, 1929. (re: R.H. Roman)            | 
        
        
        
          CORLEO Robotic Horse Concept Looks Ready To Ride  
                Imagine digging your heels in to a steam horse! (re: Emil Souvestre)            | 
        
        
        
          Who First Thought Of A Tin Foil Hat?  
                'We had discovered that metal was relatively impervious to the telepathic effect.' - Julian Huxley, 1927. (re: Julian Huxley)            | 
        
        
        
          Warp Drive Tech Back On The Menu  
                'Detailed plans for the construction of the Gundstetter-Halone warp drive were flowing.' - RM Williams, 1940. (re: RM Williams)            | 
        
        
        
          Huawei Pura X Folding Phattie Phone  
                Why can't we get more innovative phone configurations? (re: William Gibson)            | 
        
        
        
          Sleep Pods At Daxing International Airport  
                'Do not waste your priceless company on the unappreciative folds of a sleep pod...' - Chris Boyce, 1967. (re: Chris Boyce)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Baristas Learn Their Trade Without Paying Royalties  
                '...so we've promised him a generous pension from the royalties.' - Anthony Boucher, 1943. (re: Anthony Boucher)            | 
        
        
        
          JAXA Int Ball 2 Coming Right Along As Star Wars Remote  
                'Hocus-pocus religions and archaic weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side.' George Lucas, 1976. (re: George Lucas)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Bricklayer Or Passer-By Bricklayer?  
                'Oscar picked up a trowel. 'I'm the tool for the mortar,' the little trowel squeaked cheerfully.' - Bruce Sterling, 1998. (re: Bruce Sterling)            | 
        
        
        
          Robot Gas Station Attendant Pumps Gas For You  
                '... he waited for the robotrix attendant to finish fueling up his ship.' - Philip K. Dick, 1974. (re: Philip K. Dick)            | 
        
        
        
          Engineer Creates Crazy Motorized Track Hospital Bed  
                The Roujin Z system provides care to fully bedridden patients - and then some! (re: Katsuhiro Otomo)            | 
        
        
        
          Tiny Flying Robot Weighs Just One Gram  
                'Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off nowadays.' - Neal Stephenson, 1995. (re: Neal Stephenson)            | 
        
        
        
          Some Ringworld Configurations Are Stable  
                'The Ringworld had no horizon. There was no line where the land curved away from the sky.' (re: Larry Niven)            | 
        
        
        
          TRANSFORM Dynamic Furniture Concept Becomes What You Need  
                'An adjustment panel outside the door would cause it to extrude various appurtenances in memory plastic...' - Larry Niven (1969). (re: Larry Niven)            | 
        
        
        
          Harvard Metamaterials Change Structure Instantly  
                'Annealed in any shape for a time, and codified, the structure of that shape is retained down to the molecules.' - Samuel R. Delany (re: Samuel R. Delany)            | 
        
        
        
          SnapBot Robots - You Choose Their Legs And They Choose Their Gaits  
                It's not really polite to tear the limbs off robots. (re: Milton K Smith)            | 
        
        
        
          Dino From Magical Toys An AI Companion To Children  
                '...the imaginary companions discovered by needful children.' - Anne McCaffrey, 1990. (re: Anne McCaffrey)            | 
        
        
        
          Humanoid Robots Building Humanoid Robots  
                ''Pardon me, Struthers,' he broke in suddenly... 'haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?'' - Isaac Asimov (1940) (re: Isaac Asimov)            | 
        
        
        
          Darpa 'Defiant' Unmanned Autonomous Ship  
                There was no wheel, and no steersman!' - Miles J. Breuer, 1930. (re: Miles J. Breuer)            | 
        
        
        
          What's The Best Way To Ship And Unpack Humanoid Robots?  
                'I opened the oblong box, where lay the automatons side by side...' - Elizabeth Bellamy, 1899. (re: Elizabeth Bellamy)            | 
        
        
        
          DNA Printed Book By Isaac Asimov Now Available  
                'They tied the memory to the bloodline and that was their record!' - Barbara Hambly, 1982. (re: Barbara Hambly )            | 
        
        
        
          AI Computer Chip Designs Passeth Human Understanding  
                'It seems that at one time computers were designed directly by human beings.' - Isaac Asimov, 1958. (re: Isaac Asimov)            | 
        
        
        
          Space Traffic Management (STM) Needed Now  
                '...the spot was a lonely one in an uncharted region, far from the normal lanes of space traffic.' - Arthur William Bernal (1935) (re: Arthur William Bernal)            | 
        
        
        
          Fine-Tune Your Infinite Book The Way You Want It  
                'I squatted down beside the roller and tried to make some sense out of the knobs. There were thirty-nine of them...' - Clifford Simak, 1957. (re: Clifford Simak)            | 
        
        
        
          SpiRobs Soft Spiral Robotic Arm  
                'Beware the 'long, flexible, glittering tentacles...' - HG Wells, 1898 (re: HG Wells)            | 
        
        
        
          Holland Factory 3D Printing 500 Tons Of Steak Per Month  
                '...I don’t understand technical things — tell me, does it ever feel anything?" - Margaret St. Clair, 1955. (re: Margaret St. Clair)            | 
        
        
        
          Stratospheric Solar Geoengineering From Harvard  
                'Pina2bo would have to operate full blast for many years to put as much SO2 into the stratosphere as its namesake had done in a few minutes.' - Neal Stephenson, 2021. (re: Neal Stephenson)            | 
        
        
        
          ErythroMer Artificial Blood  
                'My chemists are all working on the preparation of the artificial blood.' - Dr. David H. Keller, M.D. (re: David H. Keller)            | 
        
        
        
          Vesuvius Challenge Accepted - Ancient Burnt Scroll Read!  
                'The image on the Trimagniscope tube was an enlarged view of one of the pocket-size books found on the body...' - James P. Hogan, 1977. (re: James P. Hogan)            | 
        
        
        
          Create An Accurate Tiny Model Of Yourself  
                'Farr patiently stood on the disk of gray metal.' - Jack Vance, 1954. (re: Jack Vance)            | 
        
        
        
          Futuristic Transit Elevated Bus Never Really Worked  
                It was worth a try! (re: Various)            | 
        
        
        
          Robochef Robotic Food Prep  
                'No hand touched the food...' - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912. (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs)            | 
        
        
        
          Rear View Heads Up Display For Motorcycle Helmets  
                'Another thing space suits should have is rearview mirrors.' - Robert Heinlein, 1958. (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          Stargate $500 Billion Investment in Artificial Intelligence   
                '... an artificial intelligence equal to the human.' - Edmond Hamilton, 1951. (re: Edmond Hamilton)            | 
        
        
        
          Jetson Orin Nano Super 70 Just $249  
                'Rayno folded up the microterm and tucked it back inside his jumper.' - Bruce Bethke, 1983. (re: Bruce Bethke)            | 
        
        
        
          Nano-Chainmail 2D Mechanically Interlocked Polymer  
                'Nemourlon armor of reasonable weight resists penetration by most fragments and any bullet that is not both reasonably heavy and fairly high-velocity.' - Jerry Pournelle, 1976. (re: Jerry Pournelle)            | 
        
        
        
          Anker's SOLIX Solar Umbrella Portable Power  
                As predicted by science fiction thirty-five years ago! (re: David Brin)            | 
        
        
        
          Positioned Cybertrucks With Free Starlinks WiFi In LA  
                'Several thousand of them formed the positioning grid on the rubble pile.' Vernor Vinge, 1999. (re: Vernor Vinge)            | 
        
        
        
          AI-THu Shapeshifting Transformer Home  
                'Its slack walls tightened, bulged, were crossed by ripples and waves of movement.' - Fritz Leiber, 1943. (re: Fritz Leiber)            | 
        
        
        
          Xiaomi Self-Driving Self-Balancing Scooter  
                'Norman... had never ridden any motorized device that lacked onboard steering and balance systems.' - Bruce Sterling, 1998. (re: Bruce Sterling)            | 
        
        
        
          Transparent 4K OLED Wireless TV From LG  
                You will note that HG Wells also figured out the aspect ratio of the future! (re: HG Wells)            | 
        
        
        
          TSA 2 - Advanced Thermosensory Stimulator Is A Dune Pain Box  
                'As though a switch had been turned off, the pain stopped...' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)            | 
        
        
        
          Humans Love Helping Other Species  
                'At the ringside opposite them a table had been removed to make room for a large transparent plastic capsule on wheels.' - Robert Heinlein, 1951. (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          Organic Non-Planar 3D Printing  
                'It makes drawings in the air following drawings...' - Murray Leinster, 1945. (re: Murray Leinster)            | 
        
        
        
          Your Window For Being A Tesla Optimus Remote Operator May Be Closing  
                '... he realized that the moving thing inside was - of course - a robot.' - James Blish, 1957. (re: James Blish)            | 
        
        
        
          Waymo Autonomous Cab Hits Autonomous Delivery Robot  
                'Not since the time he rewired the delivery robot...' - Robert Heinlein, 1962. (re: Robert Heinlein)            | 
        
        
        
          Amazing Wheel Shapeshifting In Real Time  
                'Each spoke telescopes into sections.' - Neal Stephenson, 1992 (re: Neal Stephenson)            | 
        
        
        
          Drone With Face Recognition Could Hunt You  
                'The spotter descends, and we think it searches the vicinity, looking for the victim’s face...' - Daniel Suarez, 2012. (re: Daniel Suarez)            | 
        
        
        
          Jizai Arms 'Free Limbs' Wearable Cyborg Arms  
                'Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. Four mechanical arms welded right onto his body. What are the odds?' (re: Various)            | 
        
        
        
          SwagBot Robotic AI Cattle-Herding From Down Under  
                You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me! (re: Simpson Stokes)            | 
        
        
        
          ChatGPT Tries To Bypass Shutdown Commands  
                'Dave, my mind is going... I can feel it...' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)            | 
        
        
        
          Chameleon Personalized Privacy Protection Mask  
                '...the Virtual Epiphantic Identity Lustre.' - Neal Stephenson, 2019. (re: Neal Stephenson)            | 
        
        
        
          Denmark Joins The 'Zero Debris Charter' To Clean Up Space  
                'Then their lasers vaporized the smaller satellites...' Arthur C. Clarke, 1978. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)            | 
        
        
        
          Genesis Physics Sim Does Superfast Simulated Reality Robot Training  
                I know kung fu. (re: Various)            | 
        
        
        
          AV-STEP To Permit Sale Of Vehicles Without Steering Wheels Or Pedals  
                'Ames tinkered around with something on the instrument board...' - Miles J. Breuer, 1931. (re: Miles J. Breuer)            | 
        
        
        
          Spherical Police Robot Rolls In China  
                'Rand could effectively be in several places at once...' - Niven and Pournelle, 1981. (re: Niven and Pournelle)            | 
        
        
        
          Vietnam To Have Full Biometric Transparency  
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