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Chinese Aircar Light And Airy, Not For Blade Runners
Daytime version. (re: Ridley Scott)

The Morphing Wheel And The Smartwheel
'If you surf over a bump, the spokes contract to roll over it.' Neal Stephenson, 1992. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Transporting Antimatter
'...drawing plans for the magnetic tongs and bed plates and relays.' (re: Jack Williamson)

Polish Turns Your Nail Into A Stylus
'He wrote on it, using the pointed fingernail of his right forefinger...' - Cordwainer Smith, 1950. (re: Cordwainer Smith)

I Wish This Plaudit Pin Was More Like A Wristpad
'Frank was cursing into his wristpad, switching between Arabic and English.' - Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992. (re: Kim Stanley Robinson)

World's Largest Teleoperated Arm
'...a pair so huge that Stevens could not conceive a use for it..' - Robert Heinlein, 1941. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Japan's AI Buddharoid Automonks
'...each of them is a neural mapping of the mind of a Tibetan monk who actually lived.' - Ray Naylor, 2022. (re: Ray Naylor)

MIT Computerized Bionic Leg Is Part Of The User
'The leg was to function, in a way, as a servo-mechanism operated by Larry’s brain, through the mediation of the electronic brain in the leg.' - Charles Recour, 1949. (re: Charles Recour)

The New Habitable Zones Include Asimov's Ribbon Worlds
'...there's a narrow belt where the climate is moderate.' - Harl Vincent, 1931. (re: Harl VIncent)

California Governor Candidate Calls For Voting By Phone
'... every veephone on the continent would display, over and over, two propositions.' John Brunner, 1975. (re: John Brunner)

Robots For Hire En Masse
'...small investors profited, too.' - Raymond E. Banks, 1956. (re: Raymond E. Banks)

China's Handheld Electromagnetic Gun
'Completely silent, accurate up to about twenty meters. No recoil...' - Richard Morgan, 2003. (re: Richard Morgan)

3D Printing A 12-Meter Boat Hull
'It makes drawings in the air...' - Murray Leinster, 1945 (re: Murray Leinster)

China Still Working On Rescue Robot That Eats People
Firefighter Rescue Robot Eats Humans - again! (re: Various)

Lawyer AIs Create Chaos In Our Legal System
'I want my lawyer program.' - David Brin, 1990. (re: David Brin)

Chinese Hospital Tries Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron' Cosplay
'He wore spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.' - Kurt Vonnegut, 1961. (re: Kurt Vonnegut)

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