ACTUV Game From DARPA Seeks Ender Wiggin
Gamers! your talents are needed by your friends at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (re: Orson Scott Card) |
KMR-M6 Hexapod Robot
Take a look at the video to see how quick this six-legged robot really is. (re: Michael Crichton) |
Location History Dashboard By Google
Make a map of your steps and check the statistics. (re: Jack Williamson) |
iPet Companion Provides Remote Kitteh Interaction
Will your company require you to play with kittens on sanity breaks? (re: Philip K. Dick) |
CSAIL Gets $7.5M To Develop Bird-Like UAV
The skies will one day be filled with them. (re: Greg Bear) |
China Bans Time Travel-Based TV Shows
China's General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television has a problem with 'made up' stories. (re: Various) |
StunRay Paralyzes With Light
This weapon has been around in different forms in sf for quite a while. (re: Michael Crichton) |
'Police POV' Uses On-Officer Cameras
Check out this new police reality television show; it uses technology introduced decades ago by sf writers and movie makers. (re: David Brin) |
Thanks For Being Open Apple, Amazon, Barnes And Noble
In which the author, a modern-day consumer, has a better-than-sfnal experience in shopping for a book. (re: Stanislaw Lem) |
Nanogenerator Intros New Energy Unit - The Pinch
Just the thing for the stillsuits of the future. (re: Frank Herbert) |
Thermal Ligating System Welds Soft Tissue
This device seals and cuts soft tissue in one stroke. (re: Gene Roddenberry) |
SmartBird Robotic Bird In Flight
Remarkable biomimetic robot from the Festo corporation (not Tyrell). (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Bulletproof Human Skin
This unique art project might actually work. (re: Various) |
Through The Crust, Into the Mantle
What's your favorite story of a visit to the interior of the Earth? (re: Lincoln Child) |
Google And The Psychohistorians
'A further necessary assumption is that the human conglomerate be itself unaware of psychohistoric analysis...' (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Is China Altering Web Traffic?
SF fans were prompted to think about this a generation ago. (re: Frank Herbert) |
Artificial Muscles Power A Motor
I'm pretty sure I read about this idea in the Sixties. (re: Martin Caidin) |
Quick-Charging Batteries Needed For Vehicles
3D films made by coating a surface with self-assembled nanoscale spheres may hold the answer to fast 'fill-ups' at vehicle recharging stations. (re: Philip Jose Farmer) |
Voice Stress Detection In Emergency Callers
Take two stress pills and call me in the morning. (re: Arthur C. Clarke) |
Reprogrammed Microbe Makes Butanol From Cellulose
Clostridium cellulolyticum likes chewing on biomass but does not normally make butanol. Now it does! (re: Hal Clement) |
Take Control Of Cars Wirelessly
You think you have complete control over your car - but for how long? (re: Keith Laumer) |
Active Electrostatic Radiation Shielding For Space Craft
You're going to need a shield out there; better get started. (re: John W. Campbell) |
Prospero, Robotic Farmer
Fascinating new approach to the idea of mechanized agriculture. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Meal Assistance Robot Feeds You
'Please robot... I want some more.' Reader help is requested. (re: Various) |
This Species Has Seven Sexes
Its seven sexes are rather prosaically named I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. (re: William Tenn) |
Single Atom Quantum Memory
Store the qubit from a polarised photon in a single atom of rubidium (re: Robert Heinlein) |
Building The World Wide Mind
The mind in the cloud? This concept is explored in a new book. (re: Niven and Purnelle) |
Your Computer Therapist Will See You Now
Computers are more helpful than ever. (re: James Blish) |
Real-Life Fantastic Voyage
Remarkable research and development efforts let us see inside the living cell better than ever before. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Police Sketch Artist Database Software
Bringing a new technological twist to difficult human art. (re: Joseph Killeam) |
Self-Charging Nao Robot Video
Nao learns to self-charge; I like the way he chills out while waiting for a full charge, too. (re: Stephen Barr) |
Fracking Gas Companies Suspend Operations
Let's not tell DARPA about the 'terrain deformation' possibility. (re: Various) |
Legal 'e-Discovery' Software Replaces Lawyers
Your virtual counsel will see you now. (re: David Brin) |
Microcamera Big As Grain Of Salt
New manufacturing process yields tiny cameras no larger than a coarse grain of salt. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun) |
Cloned Pets For $150,000
If you had the chance, would you bring your pet back from the dead? (re: Aldous Huxley) |
Google Cars Drive Faster, Safer Than You
This car reminds me of a predatory automobile from a recent story. (re: Daniel Suarez) |
India To Issue One Million Aadhaar Biometric IDs Per Day
Soon, every unique citizen in India will also have a unique, government-issued biometric identification card. (re: Robert Heinlein) |
LOPES Robotic Exoskeleton Assists Stroke Victims
This robotic exoskeleton is designed to both assist and assess stroke victims as they walk back from their illness. (re: Fritz Lieber) |
Liquid Lens For Optical Coherence Microscopy
New device may make surgical removal and biopsy of small, possibly cancerous lesions obsolete. (re: Gene Roddenbaerry) |
Cheetah Robot Will Run Faster Than Humans
I'd like to see a robot running at full speed for a cheetah, about sixty miles per hour. (re: William Gibson) |
First Millimeter-Scale Computer System
Tiny wireless networks and implantable glaucoma eye pressure monitors are just two possible applications. (re: Various) |
New Robot Skin Is Flexible, Sensitive, Solar-Powered
It's not just robots who will need super-sensitive skin. (re: Roger Zelazny) |
Dr. Watson Will See You Soon
Will Watson be the right computer to crack one of the intractable problems in medicine - namely, the failure of expert systems to assist or augment doctors. (re: Gene Roddenbaerry) |
Computational Photography: Image Of The Future
This remarkable idea will change the way you see photography. (re: Ridley Scott) |
Audi Robot Yearns For An Upgrade
Will the social robots of the future share their anxieties and their yearning for upgrades? (re: Philip K. Dick) |
The Interplanetary Internet
This idea is going to get off the ground sooner or later - Vint Cerf thinks sooner would be better. (re: Harry Gore Bishop) |
Robotic Hummingbird Spy
This tiny prototype weighs just 19 grams and has its own onboard video camera. (re: Roger Zelazny) |
Sysbrain Lets Satellites Think For Themselves
This 'special breed of software agents' is intended to give the satellites circling over your head a bit more autonomy. (re: George Lucas) |
Anti-Laser Is A Coherent Perfect Absorber
This device, which as of now has no practical applications, can absorb laser light perfectly. (re: Gene Roddenberry) |
Robot Learns To Clean Whiteboard, Suck Up To Teacher
What else can you teach this robot by example? I have the feeling that cleaning whiteboards is just the beginning. (re: Anthony Boucher) |
Solowheel Self-Balancing Unicycle
I'm not sure if this is the future of transportation, but you can carry it easier than a Segway. (re: Robert Heinlein) |
Technovelgy Has 2,000 SF Inventions, Ideas and Technologies
That's a lot of science fiction technology, ideas and inventions. (re: Various) |
Motorika Robot Therapy Helps Stroke Patients
This robotic therapy device has demonstrated efficacy in assisting stroke victims in recovering much of their lost mobility. (re: A.E. van Vogt) |
Videochat Robot: DIY Telepresence Robot
Another great project from Mr. Chung, this one lets you be in two places at once for just $500. (re: Niven and Pournelle) |
Inspired By Science Fiction?
Readers, I need your help! (re: Various) |
Robots Are Social Media, The TED Video
Fascinating TED video talk on social robots; links also to some of these robots covered on Technovelgy, with more information and video. (re: George Lucas) |
Bio-Retina Retina Prosthesis Project
This is a very promising design; the second gen device could offer 72x72 pixel vision almost immediately. (re: Gene Roddenberry) |
RhinoChill IntraNasal Cooling
Cools your head down fast! Farscape fans, this one's for you. (re: Various) |
Nanowire Transistors For Smallest Computers
I can see the nanomachine swarm coming now. No, wait, I can't see it. (re: Stanislaw Lem) |
Insectothopter Robotic Dragonfly CIA Tech From 1970s
See the video; this is pretty amazing for the 1970's. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun) |
Steppenwolf: Interstellar Rogue Planets May Support Life
'Like a lone wolf wandering the galactic steppe' rogue planets could harbor life in deep oceans. (re: George RR Martin) |
Affetto Child Robot With Realistic Facial Expressions
Is this little robot cute and friendly - or uncanny? You be the judge. (re: Brian Aldiss) |
Confession App For iPhone Catholic Church Approved
This app does everything but give you absolution. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Google Translate for iPhone App
Impressive app for Apple iPHone owners. (re: Hugo Gernsback) |
Cougar20-H Robot Hears Your Breathing
Just hold your breath to avoid detection. (re: Frank Herbert) |
Biocompatible Retinal Implants
Are organic implants better than silicon and metal electrodes? (re: Ridley Scott) |
Geremin Gesture-Controlled Dashboard
Better than buttons on the steering wheel? You be the judge. (re: Douglas Adams) |
HP TouchSmart 610 Reclining Touchscreen
The bridge crew from Star Trek: TOS will have no problem recognizing this kind of computer display. (re: Gene Roddenberry) |
Hamster Powers, Controls Strandbeest Walking Robot
This project is good practice for humanity, who may someday be able to help aliens get around in strange environments (like Earth). (re: Vernor Vinge) |
'My Boss Is A Robot' Project Automates Journalism
The end of the free blogging movement is almost here; your robotic overlord is being developed at Carnegie Mellon. (re: William Gibson) |
RoboEarth Lets Robots Learn From Each Other
To better serve us, we must allow robots to communicate the best practices of service with each other. (re: Frederik Pohl) |
LifeBot Tablet In-Ambulance Computer
This all-in-one medical tablet computer can be used by ambulance personnel and first responders to save lives. (re: Various) |
Active Stereo Nose Finds The Source
Another biomimetic robot, this one imitates dogs and crayfish to find sources of chemical clouds and plumes. (re: Ray Bradbury) |
Self-Cleaning SilverSport Gym Gear Uses Nanosilver
Stinky gym gear now a thing of the past? (re: Neal Stephenson) |
'The Daily' iPad App Is A Padloid
Slick, understandable user interface, lots of content and (finally) an aggressive price model makes this app worth a look. (re: John Varley) |
Skin Cell Gun Video
Amazing confirmation of the value of Dr. Gerlach's technique - and Philip K. Dick's vision of the future. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
True 3D Real-Time Holography
'Help me, Michael Bove. You're my only hope.' (re: ) |
Grow Cultured Meat In A 'Carnery'
It takes from 3 to 8 pounds of nutrient to create just one pound of meat; we can do better. (re: H. Beam Piper) |
Thinnest Pocket Projector
These tiny projectors will one day be a standard item in every smartphone. (re: ) |
Robotic Lettuce Farm Has Green Thumb
Automated farms take most of the back-breaking work out of growing lettuce. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Driver Alcohol Detection Systems for Safety By QinetiQ (And PKD)
Unfortunately, we cannot simply recline in the back seat and let the 'auto-auto mech' drive the car. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
'Medical Tricorder' Sees Viral DNA Quickly
This device could reduce the usual days-long process to wait for culture results with a specific diagnosis within minutes. (re: Gene Roddenberry) |
'Air Laser' Long-Range Sensor
The stronger signal should also allow for detection of much smaller concentrations of airborne contaminants. (re: Gene Roddenbaerry) |
Egypt Drops Dime, Pulls Plug On Internet
The government of Egypt made a few phone calls and poof! Its citizens have no Internet access - and we have no access into the country from outside. (re: John Brunner) |
China's Megacity 'Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One'
Even larger urban zones are planned. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Cultybraggan Nuclear Bunker Perfect For Data Crypt
Perfect for 'secure, anonymous, unregulated data storage.' (re: Bruce Sterling) |
Ikaros Solar Sail Craft Photo Of Venus
Impressive proof of the value of solar sail-powered vessels. (re: Cordwainer Smith) |
DLR Robotic Hand-Arm Is Super-Strong, Super-Tough
Take a look at a video of this robotic hand/arm system taking a beating from well-meaning researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics in Germany. (re: Robert Heinlein) |
Mall Robotic Ad Won't Leave You Alone
Does this sound familiar, Belgian shoppers? 'Morris pushed wearily past the salesrobot, up the sidewalk toward the residential-block that contained his living-unit.' (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Antenna Repairmen In Fact And Fiction
'I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.' (re: Arthur C. Clarke) |
Wasp Micro-UAV Used By Texas SWAT
Tiny surveillance drones are starting to appear over US cities. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Textile Energy Storage
It's a prototype systematic fiber-based electrochemical micro-supercapacitor. (re: Murray Leinsrer) |
Curvilinear Camera Combines Your Eye With Zoom
Going beyond the human eye? Someday, we will rebuild you better than you were before (re: EE 'Doc' Smith) |
Kiosk Looks At You, Then Decides On Your Meal
Machines will tell you what to eat, just by looking at you. (re: Douglas Adams) |
E-Camouflage - Invisible Tanks
How about an invisible jumping robot spider tank? (re: Various) |
PrimeSense WAVI Xtion Gesture Control Of TV
The same company that created Microsoft's Kinect wants to do more for you in your living room. (re: Douglas Adams) |
Magnetic Pills Steered Within The Body
Precise drug delivery could be achieved by controlling a special pill as it moved through the patient's gastrointestinal tract. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Evolutionary Robotics To Design Better Robots
Robots seem to walk better when they evolve the ability to do so. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Cliodynamics: Modeling Complex Societies Mathematically
'The basis of all valid psychohistory lies in the development of the Seldon Plan.' (re: Isaac Asimov) |
GhostBot Robotic Ghost Knifefish
This robot is highly maneuverable, thanks to its body-long fin. (re: Michael Swanwick) |
Moon Mining And Space Lawyers
Need a good space-lawyer? SF readers have been looking for one since 1941. (re: Nat Schachner) |
When You're Smiling, The World's Machines Smile With You!
The machines know when you're happy, so smile! (re: Various) |
EDV-01 Instant Self-Sufficient House
'There was nowhere on the planet where science and technology could not provide one with a comfortable home...' (re: Arthur C. Clarke) |
Robot Japan Dance Contest
Dancing robots have been seen in futuristic films before. (re: Fritz Lang) |
Mammoths In Five Years?
The plan to create living mammoths using mammoth DNA is apparently back on track. (re: John Varley) |
XWave Apps For iPhone See Brainwaves
Brainwave sensors for entertainment goes back at least a generation in sf. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Autonomous Construction By Teams Of Quadrotor Robots
These little robots buzz like wasps, and cooperate in the building of tower structures. (re: James P. Hogan) |
Biotic Video Games Use Living Cells
'The Ganymedean life form did not experience pain and had not yet objected to being made over into a portion of an electronic system.' (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Ad-Supported Free Telephone Calls
To make a free international call, just listen to a short ad or two. For now. (re: J.G. Ballard) |
400 People Volunteer For Mars
Would you volunteer to colonize Mars? (re: Robert Heinlein) |
Metallic Glass Stronger Than Steel
The new metallic glass is a microalloy featuring palladium. (re: Various) |
Philip K. Dick Robot Head Rebuilt Video
This newly posted video seems to indicate that PKD's robotic head has been rebuilt. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Uno By BPG Motors Transformer Like RIDEBACK
Is this the first real transformer vehicle? (re: Tetsuro Kasahara) |
Miami-Dade Police First To Use UAV Drones?
What US city will be the first to deploy surveillance drones developed by the military? (re: Larry Niven) |
iRobot AVA Telepresence Robot With iPad
If iRobot is entering the field of tele-operated robotics, the business case must be good. (re: Niven and Pournelle) |
Polaroid GL20 Video Sunglasses
Lady Gaga demonstrates this product, which she designed with Polaroid. (re: David Brin) |
Realtime Holographic Motion Display Video
In the case of 3D display gaming, it is best to let the Wookie win. (re: George Lucas) |
Samsung 19 Inch Transparent AMOLED Display
Will those open laptops on conference room desks be less of a barrier if their displays are transparent? (re: H.G. Wells) |
US Mil Gorgon Stare Lacks Multiheaded Basilisk Capability
This device is able to look down and photograph a four square kilometer section of a city. But that's all. For now. (re: Charles Stross) |
Living Earth Simulator For 'Ultimate Answers'
It's an explorational device, like the Large Hadron Collider. (re: Stanislaw Lem) |
Digital Radiation Spectrometer
Mr. Spock, if you could take just one tool down to a new planet, what would it be? (re: Gene Roddenberry) |
iRing Lunar Flex-Wheel
Might these wheels also work on Earth? Lunar expeditions are somewhat chancy these days. (re: Arthur C. Clarke) |
Read Google EBooks On Google TV
Isaac Asimov had a name for that. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
See Jesus? There's An App For That
AppTech intends to 'offer religious themed content through the various Smartphone operating platforms.' (re: Roger Zelazny) |
HRP-2 Auld Lang Syne Theremin
Happy New Year! (re: Herbert Goldstone) |
PR2 Robot Wanders 100 Km Autonomously
This is PR2 - why don't they let it wander around my house, folding the laundry? (re: Gregory Benford) |
ETH Quadcopters Perform Jingle Bells On Real Piano
They can do more than just watch you; they can entertain you over the holidays. (re: Herbert Goldstone) |
Nao Robot Video Demonstrates Improvements
Just in time for the holidays, the Nao robot has improved specifications and histrionics. (re: Various) |
Romeo Robot A Robant For Elder Care
Grasping the firm arm of my trusted robot Romeo, I totter into a brave new future. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
China's Spherical Walking Robot With Retractable Arms
Updated! Favorite design of supervillains patented! Diagrams show this walking spherical robot with retractable arms. (re: Philip K. Dick) |
Fracking Earthquakes
Oil companies pump a dense slurry into the rocks far under a town, hoping to create fractures to release natural gas. What could go wrong? (re: Various) |
MGX 3D Printed Goods Almost Has it
They almost have that Gibsonian business model figured out. (re: William Gibson) |
NASA Rail Launch In Supermarionation
Where should we look to find new ideas on how to get spacecraft into orbit? I'll give you three guesses. (re: Gerry Anderson) |
Earthworms Absorb Copper Nanomaterials From Soil
Update! on copper nanoparticle toxicity study. Engineered nanomaterials can be taken up from the environment and moved up the food chain. (re: Larry Niven) |
Robot Pianist Is Self-Correcting
This little robot is just starting out, but it can listen and learn from its own mistakes. (re: Arthur C. Clarke) |
Invisibility Cloak Fools Naked Eye
interesting new technique uses naturally-occurring materials to form an invisibility cloak. (re: EE 'Doc' Smith) |
Wet Kissing Cell Phone Prototype
Skip all that texting and smiley faces nonsense; these cell phone prototypes deliver the emotional goods. (re: Frederik Pohl) |
Medical Researcher 'Discovers' Integration
Updated! Do we need a specific type of scientist or researcher that specializes in knowing the specifics of many different fields of knowledge? (re: A.E. van Vogt) |
Binishells Graceful Housing
This may just be the quickest way to construct a permanent shelter. (re: Larry Niven) |
Snakebot Conquers Obstacle Course
Snake robots are becoming surprisingly versatile in their movements. (re: Greg Bear) |
New ESAIL Video: Deploy Tethers!
'A magsail can get you to Mars in about the same time it took the Mayflower to cross the Atlantic.' (re: Michael Flynn) |
Autonomous Adaptive Structure Uses Shape Memory Polymer
Part of an autonomous adaptive structure created at MIT. (re: J.G. Ballard) |
DoDAMM Autonomous Robot Sentry Gun
This gun targets and fires automatically. (re: Michael Crichton) |
Stretchable Silicon Electronics For Sports Apparel
Maybe Reebok could include a stopwatch along with the sensors; that's what Niven and Barnes fans are hoping. (re: Niven and Barnes) |
Robot Waiters And Receptionists In China Restaurant
Robotic waiters get better and better, take a look at this restaurant in China. (re: George Lucas) |
Sonic Screwdrivers Using Ultrasonic Force Fields
Ultrasonic force fields can apply real forces to tiny objects. (re: Various) |
Will Lucas Resurrect Dead Actors Digitally?
Is George Lucas obsessed with bringing dead celebrities back to life? He'd need at least one sfna-only technology to do it. (re: Various) |
UAVs Schooled In Thermals By Peregrine Falcons
The more efficiently a UAV can maneuver, the longer it can stay on station. Birds have millions of years of experience; let them teach us. (re: Roger Zelazny) |
Robots With Knives 3, Irregularly Shaped Meat 0
This HAMDAS-R robot is the latest in bots with knife-wielding skills; can you name any others? (re: Robert Silverberg) |
Google Ebookstore - Great Expectations In The Cloud
A few glitches in the cloud not withstanding, Google's eBookstore is open for business. (re: Stanislaw Lem) |