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Name |
Author (Publication Date) |
| George Lucas (1976) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1965) | |
| James Blish (1957) | |
| Tom Maddox (1986) | |
| Vernor Vinge (2006) | |
| Jack Vance (1962) | |
| E.M. Forster (1909) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke (1953) | |
| William Gibson (1996) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1992) | |
| Stephen Spielberg (2002) | |
| H.G. Wells (1936) | |
| Warren Hammond (2007) | |
| Murray Leinster (1931) | |
| Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes) (1992) | |
| H.G. Wells (1899) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| Douglas Adams (1979) | |
| Greg Bear (2003) | |
| Greg Bear (2003) | |
| Stephen Spielberg (2002) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1969) | |
| Ridley Scott (1982) | |
| William Gibson (1996) | |
| E.C. Tubb (1958) | |
| H.G. Wells (1936) | |
| Manly Wade Wellman (1938) | |
| David Drake (1997) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1969) | |
| Jack Vance (1964) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1960) | |
| Stanislaw Lem (1961) | |
| William Gibson (1999) | |
| H.G. Wells (1899) | |
| Thomas A. Easton (1990) | |
| Isaac Asimov (1953) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| H.G. Wells (1899) | |
| Arthur C. Clarke (1968) | |
| Charles Stross (2007) | |
| Ray Bradbury (1953) | |
| Harry Harrison (1965) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| Neal Stephenson (2008) | |
| Jack Vance (1971) | |
| Michael Crichton (1985) | |
| Larry Niven (1976) | |
| John McTieman (1987) | |
| Isaac Asimov (1953) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1969) | |
| David Brin (1990) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1954) | |
| John Varley (1992) | |
| Vernor Vinge (1992) | |
| Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth) (1952) | |
| Philip K. Dick (1954) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| Vernor Vinge (2001) | |
| Neal Stephenson (1995) | |
| Milton Lesser (1956) | |
| Frank Herbert (1965) | |
| H. Beam Piper (1948) | |
| H. Beam Piper (1948) | |
| David Brin (1994) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1928) | |
| Francis Flagg (1932) | |
| Edmond Hamilton (1928) | |
| Arthur J. Burks (1938) | |
| Ray Bradbury (1951) | |
| H.G. Wells (1936) | |
| Vernor Vinge (1999) | |
| Bruce Sterling (1988) | |
| A.E. van Vogt (1945) | |
| Bruce Sterling (1988) | |
| Philip Frances Nowlan (1928) | |
| William Gibson (1996) | |
| Frederik Pohl (1965) | |
| Robert Silverberg (1969) | |
| Murray Leinster (1945) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1930) | |
| Arthur K. Barnes (1938) | |
| Brian Aldiss (1969) | |
| Stephen Spielberg (2002) | |
| Larry Niven (1976) |
Related Science Fiction in the News
Smart Contact Lens With Power Harvesting Circuits Prof. Babak Parviz adds to his work on smart contact lenses by adding a very usable power source. (re: Niven And Barnes, 11/15/2009 ) |
Interactive TV Patent From Sony Sony brings us one step closer to the TV parlors from Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Thanks, Sony. (re: Ray Bradbury, 11/15/2009 ) |
Transparent OLED Display Gets Bigger H.G. Wells knew futuristic cool stuff when he thought of it - and now, you can look at a real-life prototype. (re: H.G. Wells, 10/29/2009 ) |
LongBox Plus Apple Tablet Equals Digital Comic Books? Philip K. Dick helps you imagine the possibilities of a battery-powered comic book in a story from the mid-Sixties. Thanks, Phil. (re: Philip K. Dick, 10/27/2009 ) |
Sony 360 3D 'Stereo Tank' Video A video of the Sony prototype 360 degree viewable 3D display has finally made it onto youtube. (re: Robert Heinlein, 10/22/2009 ) |
Unlimited Size Mitsubishi OLED TV Screen Now, you can take the incremental approach to the fine old American game of 'my big screen TV is bigger than yours'. (re: Various, 10/8/2009 ) |
Phantom City Alternate NYC This art museum project uses an iPhone app to take its exhibit of alternate New York city projects all over the city. (re: Various, 10/2/2009 ) |
Magazine To Have Video-In-Print Integration of video into print magazines creates bizarre hybrid; augurs newspaper-sized displays. (re: Philip K. Dick, 8/21/2009 ) |
BrainPort - See With Your Tongue By Year's End Tongue vision will be available to everyone, hopefully, if the FDA approves it. (re: Various, 8/16/2009 ) |
Touchable Holography Display Video presentation shows that it is possible to touch a three-dimensional holographic object. (re: Frederik Pohl, 8/6/2009 ) |
Coolpix S1000pj Projector Camera This camera does more than point-and-shoot; it is a projector and camera all in one. I think Jack Vance had this one designed - in his mind - about forty years ago. (re: Jack Vance, 8/4/2009 ) |
Touchscreen Touches You Back This display presents dynamically changeable physical buttons on a visual display. (re: Varioius, 7/22/2009 ) |
Digital Booth Babe Display 3mm Thick Fascinating display created for trade shows; I wonder if the creators of this display saw Young Sherlock Holmes twenty-five years ago. (re: Steven Spielberg, 7/11/2009 ) |
Responsive Mirror, Mirror On The Wall A special display lets users see themselves in two different sets of clothing at the same time. (re: Harry Harrison, 7/1/2009 ) |
Orwell's Telescreen Now Available Initially, this device could be used to create wearable displays that also offered eye tracking. However, it's basically a display that both presents an image and takes pictures at the same time. (re: George Orwell, 6/6/2009 ) |
OLEDs Connected In Stretchable Display Why not just print a watch onto your sleeve? With this device from Takao Someya and colleagues, you can do it now if you want. (re: Niven/Barnes, 5/17/2009 ) |
On/Off Luminescent Ink Prints On Fabric Not just glow in the dark; you can selectively illuminate pixels for that sleeve watch that Niven and Barnes got you all worked up about a couple of decades ago. (re: Niven/Barnes, 5/10/2009 ) |
Amazon Kindle DX XL E-Reader Amazon finally unveils its new, large screen version of an e-reader. (re: Stephen Spielberg, 5/6/2009 ) |
Allosphere Display Like X-Men Cerebro Unique spherical display looks like something from the movies. X-men movies. (re: Various, 4/25/2009 ) |
Kindle Orwellian Nightmare An edition of the Times which might have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. (re: George Orwell, 4/16/2009 ) |
PQ Labs Multi-Touch G2 Hands On Interface This display might just sneak in ahead of both Microsoft and Apple; video shows how a customized interface can help game play. (re: Various, 3/29/2009 ) |
Touch EPD Touch Screen EPaper Display E-paper, e-shmaper - now there's a way to interact directly with your e-paper display, getting rid of those clunky control keys and boards. (re: Greg Bear, 3/13/2009 ) |
3D Television Display In Real Time Interesting implementation of the 3D display idea; an exemplary video both explains the concepts and demonstrates the device. (re: Robert Heinlein, 3/6/2009 ) |
Kindle 2's Missing Cover If the Kindle 2 had a cover, it would look like this. (re: Douglas Adams, 2/26/2009 ) |
Toshiba OLED Video Wallpaper Powered By SF With this many players in research and development, some kind of video wallpaper is bound to make it into production. (re: Vernor Vinge, 2/26/2009 ) |
Samsung Transparent OLED Display And H.G. Wells As shown in H.G. Wells' 1936 movie Things to Come - here's your transparent display. They could be a bit larger... With video. (re: H.G. Wells, 2/17/2009 ) |
Dynamic Agenda Wallpaper Glows With Your Achievements This room-sized tribute to your busy life is the best possible way to dominate a meeting. (re: Issac Asimov, 1/30/2009 ) |
Samsung W7900 Show Cell Phone Digital Projector Video shows an impressive little projector inside a cell phone; wouldn't you rather watch your pocket videos on a larger screen? (re: Jack Vance, 1/29/2009 ) |
Roadside LED Signs May Not Be Believed Got kind of a whiff of Neuromancer from this story; makes me think twice about those signs, though. (re: William Gibson, 1/27/2009 ) |
Gel Tactile Display Unique display uses a hydrogel to communicate information via touch. (re: Various, 1/17/2009 ) |
Transparent Thin Film Transistors Fabbed With Nanotubes If you could implant some sort of flexible display right in (or on) your skin, what would you display on it? (re: Schachner and Zagat, 1/12/2009 ) |
Flexible OLED Wrist Display Like Pip-Boy Flexible OLED display now available in a wrist-worthy format. (re: Roger Zelazny, 1/7/2009 ) |
3G Watch Phone From LG Electronics Remarkable technology from LG electronics promises to bring video to a wrist near you. (re: H.G. Wells, 12/31/2008 ) |
Wapix YJMM Chrono-Pictographic Frames (From Hogwarts?) Interesting art project prototype has literary antecedents. (re: J.K. Rowling, 12/24/2008 ) |
NanoTouch Touchscreen Works From The Back Radical solution to a common problem is slick - but will people like using it? (re: Various, 12/21/2008 ) |
Samsung Folding Screen Cell Phone Video I think that William Gibson called this one pretty closely back in 1986; watch the video and read the excerpt from the novel and judge for yourself. (re: William Gibson, 12/1/2008 ) |
LCD Panel Fingerprint Scanner Interesting LCD display has a hidden function - it can also take your fingerprint. (re: George Orwell, 11/6/2008 ) |
Live Via 'Hologram' On CNN Interesting technique used to project the 3D image of a correspondent back to the studio for use in a live broadcast. Not a true hologram, but it looks like telestereo to me. (re: Edmond Hamilton, 11/5/2008 ) |
Flapping Display From Samsung Breezy OLED Okay, marketing guys, I really want to show off just how thin this OLED display is, how flexible the substrate. EC Tubb nailed this one in 1958. (re: E.C. Tubb, 10/29/2008 ) |
World's Thinnest TV - Sony Bravia ZX1 This television is pretty close to being the same size and thickness as a poster, which might get some Niven fans thinking. (re: Larry Niven, 10/13/2008 ) |
Holographic 3D Television - And No Glasses A nice step forward has been taken in creating true 3D holographic displays without funny-looking glasses. (re: Robert Heinlein, 10/7/2008 ) |
DoCoMo Cellphone Projector This looks like a pretty cool way to see movies in your cubicle, or make a slide presentation without a lot of extra gear. (re: Jack Vance, 10/1/2008 ) |
Plastic Logic Reader 8.5x11 E-Book Very hopeful story for those of us who are looking forward to a nice piece of e-paper to work with. (re: Various, 9/14/2008 ) |
E-Ink Cover World's First Very impressive first effort; Esquire leads the way in bringing this futuristic technology right to your local news stand. (re: Greg Bear, 9/9/2008 ) |
Toshiba LED Pico Projector Forty years ago, this was a science-fictional item. (re: Jack Vance, 9/1/2008 ) |
Digital Daewoo Folding Screen DID-FS I think Vernor Vinge might have seen this coming; it's a fascinating combination of old and new. (re: Vernor Vinge, 8/31/2008 ) |
Beijing Opening Ceremonies 3D Display Like X-Men I loved the 3D 'digital' display; human-powered and low resolution, but still amazing. (re: Various, 8/9/2008 ) |
3D Cellphone From Seiko Epson Display technology brings unprecedented resolution to cellphone displays, as well as more D's. (re: George Lucas, 8/8/2008 ) |
Microsoft Surface Sphere w/Send To Dark Side Gesture Can you guess what the 'send to the dark side' gesture does? What movie do you think of when it comes to spherical information displays? Let me know. (re: L. Frank Baum, 7/30/2008 ) |
E-Ink Cover For Esquire Magazine This September, you should see the first example of e-ink paper on the cover of a magazine. Not the last, I'm sure. (re: Philip K. Dick, 7/22/2008 ) |
gCubik 3D Handheld Display Display prototype aims towards three-dimensional images without special glasses, in a hand-held form factor. (re: Robert Heinlein, 7/16/2008 ) |
Two Page E-Book Makes Readers Flip This is an idea that has been tried before; take a look at the video and then see what Toshiba developed four years ago. (re: Neal Stephenson, 6/26/2008 ) |
Tactile 'Display' For Fingertips Can your fingers 'see' at a distance? This flexible display could make tele-feeling transfer systems possible. (re: Various, 6/11/2008 ) |
DimP Video Player Controls By Touch Very interesting way to gain direct control over your videos; skip the dull side controls and just manipulate the action directly. (re: Various, 5/27/2008 ) |
Fluke Handheld Thermal Imager Predator-Style Very nifty thermal imaging device you can point and shoot with. Unaccountably, a shoulder blaster is not offered in combination with this device. (re: , 5/26/2008 ) |
Shinoda Plasma Video Wallpaper Nice prototype presages small-scale production of even larger version this fall. (re: Vernor Vinge, 5/15/2008 ) |
Pilot View FPV 2400 Sees Out Model Plane Window This is a pretty cool idea; for those who don't have the time or the money to get a pilot's license and plane, here's a way to get up in the air more cheaply. (re: Various, 5/11/2008 ) |
E-paper You Can Write On From Seiko Epson E Ink Collaboration produces a very nifty e-paper display that you can write notes on if you wish. (re: Isaac Asimov, 5/10/2008 ) |
Where's My Hand Waving Gesture Recognition Interface? The time is past for mere wishful drooling over movie-style gesture recognition interfaces. I want my hand waving interface. Now. (re: , 4/24/2008 ) |
AirStrike Interactive Display: The Summoning This display technology video has gotten a lot of attention; I'm not convinced. Especially about the 'holographic' part. (re: Edmond Hamilton, 4/23/2008 ) |
Retinal Scanning Display Projects Images On Retina This display uses your own retina as a screen upon which to show an image; the idea is at least fifty years old. (re: Pohl/Kornbluth, 4/12/2008 ) |
Multi-Touch Illuminate Table The GestureTek device beats the MS Surface in at least one important respect; ordinary consumers can buy one now. (re: Various, 4/7/2008 ) |
Sensisphere Multitouch Hemisphere Display The Sensisphere is a design concept prototype that may be less practical than MS Surface, but it's still cool. (re: Various, 4/6/2008 ) |
Gesture Recognition TV Watches You Would you want a set top box with a camera in it watching you watch television? (re: George Orwell, 3/21/2008 ) |
iRex Iliad E-Book Reader AND Writer For an alternative to the Amazon Kindle, consider the iLiad device from iRex. No mere reader, it also lets you write all over your ebooks. (re: Stanislaw Lem, 3/9/2008 ) |
e-Menu Interactive Restaurant Menu This is a very nicely done implementation of a great idea - you'll think of this one the next time you're wondering 'where is my waiter?' (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 3/9/2008 ) |
Microsoft Surface Sphere: Multi-Touch Crystal Ball And who do we know who would possibly be interested in something as far-fetched as a spherical computer display? (re: Frank Baum, 3/6/2008 ) |
Transparent Mobile Search - Just Frame The Question Fascinating interface design presents an interesting solution to the problem of stating (framing) your search query. (re: Charles Stross, 2/24/2008 ) |
Tattoo Display Fueled By Blood Ever misplaced your cell phone, or forgotten to charge it? If this concept becomes reality, your problems are solved. (re: John Varley, 2/22/2008 ) |
Readius Polymer Vison E-Ink Video This video lets you see the future in the palm of someone else's hand. (re: William Gibson, 2/15/2008 ) |
Nautilus Home Theater Causing Nemo-Envy One can almost imagine Prof. Arronnax, Conseil and Ned Land, smoking cigars made from nicotine-rich seaweed, enjoying the latest moving pictures. (re: Jules Verne, 2/11/2008 ) |
Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall Gives CNN Magic I'd like to see multiple CNN news personalities using this device at the same time - fighting over screen real estate. (re: Steven Spielberg, 2/6/2008 ) |
AquaScript Information Waterfall Display Do you sometimes feel drenched in an endless rain of information? Well, now you really can - text and graphics both. (re: Various, 2/4/2008 ) |
Circuit Smart Contact Lens, Presaged By Niven, Barnes and Vinge Vernor Vinge called this one in his 2001 novella 'Fast Times at Fairmont High.' Larry Niven and Steven Barnes didn't do too badly, either. (re: Vernor Vinge, 1/17/2008 ) |
Multi-Touch Table For Factory Inspection I think Fritz Lang called this one about seventy years ago; but the new one has that nifty multi-touch technology. (re: Fritz Lang, 1/10/2008 ) |
Wiimote Head-Tracking Virtual Reality Display I'm starting to think that there is nothing you can't do with a Wiimote. Virtual reality display for a few bucks? No problem. (re: Various, 1/9/2008 ) |
SHOW Lensless PicoP Projector World's Smallest This amazing little device was foreseen thirty-five years ago by SF Grandmaster Jack Vance. (re: Jack Vance, 1/3/2008 ) |
Philips Flexible E-Paper World's Highest Resolution LG Philips will be showing this flexible e-paper next week, but you can see it today on Technovelgy. (re: Neal Stephenson, 1/3/2008 ) |
Digital Billboards Fighting Crime 451-Style Digital billboards are being used for more than just pushing consumer junk. (re: Ray Bradbury, 12/24/2007 ) |
Wiimote-Based Multi-Touch Whiteboard It might just be quicker to list the things you CAN'T do with a Nintendo Wii remote; great hack from CMU. (re: Various, 12/19/2007 ) |
Readius Rollable Display Starts Mass Production You can roll up a newspaper, magazine and even a paperback book; try that with a Kindle. The Readius uses a great display technology. (re: William Gibson, 12/15/2007 ) |
eScroll Design Takes E-Books Way Back Sure, the Amazon Kindle has a future, but what about an eBook design with a past? (re: Various, 12/9/2007 ) |
Ray Bradbury: Your Parlor TV Walls Are Almost Ready Can you dance faster than the White Clown, shout louder than 'Mr. Gimmick' and the parlor families? Better start practicing, because the TV parlor is just about ready. (re: Ray Bradbury, 11/2/2007 ) |
E-Paper By Bridgestone: Ultrathin And Supersized Your foldable, crushable, tossable e-paper will be ready by 2009; see a sample now. (re: Neal Stephenson, 10/22/2007 ) |
Round Screen LCDs Take Us Back I've had enough of rectangular displays - this one is pleasingly round. (re: H.G. Wells, 10/20/2007 ) |
JVC Clapper Gesture Recognition TV Yes, that's right, you've wasted your valuable vegetating hours looking for the remote for the last time. (re: Douglas Adams, 10/7/2007 ) |
Sony OLED TV Superthin This remarkably thin television is now available in Japan; expensive, but the future usually is (at first). (re: Larry Niven, 10/2/2007 ) |
Autostereoscopic 360 Degree Light Field Display The frame rate of this interactive display is remarkably high. (re: Edmond Hamilton, 9/2/2007 ) |
HIPerSpace Offers Highest Display Resolution The engineers at UCSD are at it again, creating the world's highest resolution display. (re: H.G. Wells, 8/23/2007 ) |
HypoSurface Walls Are Full Of Life This remarkable new display surface is a pretty good implementation of a J.G. Ballard idea from the 1960's. (re: J.G. Ballard, 8/17/2007 ) |
kameraflage Seen By Cellphone Cameras Only This is an interesting use of a little-known property of digital cameras. (re: Roger Zelazny, 8/1/2007 ) |
iPhone Medical Image Viewer Physicians are always looking for a tool that lets them take patient information with them. (re: Various, 7/25/2007 ) |
Paper Four Video Excellent video really shows off cool display technology. (re: Philip K. Dick, 7/10/2007 ) |
Transparent TV From Active Inc (And H.G. Wells) This looks like a great product - H.G. Wells would be very glad to see it, having thought of it seventy years ago. (re: H.G. Wells, 7/6/2007 ) |
MulTicket Is Isaac Asimov's Idea Very cool concept - but it's been around for a while. (re: Isaac Asimov, 7/6/2007 ) |
Tangible 3D Display: Reach In And Touch With Haptic Glove Grab virtual reality by the ..., well, you know what I mean. (re: Various, 7/1/2007 ) |
Nanowire Electronics Transparent And Flexible Remarkable advance brings clear displays much closer - and clearer. (re: Various, 6/27/2007 ) |
Interactive Paper Four Sounds Off This revolutionary product will also improve those school science fair projects... (re: Harlan Ellison, 6/6/2007 ) |
Microsoft Surface Multi-Touch Display Microsoft's implementation of a multi-touch display looks smooth - but take a look at the earlier efforts. (re: Various, 5/30/2007 ) |
A4-Sized Color E-Paper Unrolled By Philips South Korea's LG Philips does it again with this amazing full sheet of e-paper. (re: Neal Stephenson, 5/14/2007 ) |
DigiDesk Touch-Desk Microsoft's Sci-Fi Desk of the Future I think Fritz Lang had the spirit (and form) of this device as early as 1927. (re: Fritz Lang, 5/6/2007 ) |
Book-Style Interface For Web, TV, Radio Watanabe is slowly working toward a future written by Neal Stephenson and posited by MIT's Media Lab. (re: Neal Stephenson, 4/29/2007 ) |
Star Wars Binoculars A Cognitive Technology Threat Warning Come on, you've wanted some of those nifty Star Wars binoculars since about 1977 - admit it. (re: George Lucas, 4/13/2007 ) |
Largest OLED Display This new display is getting closer to those cool TVs that we can just unroll and hang wherever we like. (re: E.C. Tubb, 4/11/2007 ) |
Sony DataTiles Inspired By What SF Movie? The cool Sony DataTiles are back in the news, and they were inspired by a particular science fiction movie. (re: Arthur C. Clarke, 4/8/2007 ) |
Podtech Gesture Research Turns Hand Into Mouse Gesture recognition is getting cheaper; soon your hand will be a mouse. (re: Steven Spielberg, 4/6/2007 ) |
How Long To Run From One End Of TV To The Other? 12 Seconds! How to best measure the size of your TV? Would you believe you'll need your running shoes and a stopwatch? (re: H.G. Wells, 3/28/2007 ) |
World's Largest Tablet PC From Sharp Forget about packing this one under your arm. (re: Ray Bradbury, 3/16/2007 ) |
Polymer Vision Readius With Merely Foldable Display I liked the idea of a fully rollable display better. Picky, picky, picky. (re: William Gibson, 2/17/2007 ) |
Gravitonus Ergonomic Workstation Just ask yourself this: does my gaming system orient me properly to the Earth (or other local) gravitational field? I didn't think so. (re: , 2/14/2007 ) |
Pyro Dancin' to the Infernoptix Beat This is so great - now see more details than ever before with this amazing display. (re: , 2/11/2007 ) |
Gemotion Bas Relief Display Unique technology provides a soft, 'living' 3D surface vision. (re: Various, 1/23/2007 ) |
Khronos Projector at NextFest 2006 Very cool interface should give you a new thought about the iPhone - flexible screen! (re: Various, 1/21/2007 ) |
iPhone Multi-Touch Screen's Big Brother(s) If you think Steve Jobs is a good salesman, watch Jeff Han. (re: Stephen Spielberg, 1/12/2007 ) |
Philips Readius E-Ink Video This video really demonstrates how cool this device is. (re: William Gibson, 12/11/2006 ) |
Lifeblood And Beta Tank Bubble-Based 'Stereo Tanks' Unusual sculptures that use bubbles as pixels in low-res displays - 2D and 3D. (re: Robert Heinlein, 11/23/2006 ) |
Concrete Screen Technology Bucks Trend Forget about those flimsy thin screens - here's a display that will stand up to the real world. Don't drop it on your foot, though. (re: Various, 11/10/2006 ) |
Cheoptics 360 3D Display Technology This new display would be perfect for tradeshows and conventions, not to mention the control room of your rocket ship. (re: Edmond Hamilton, 11/7/2006 ) |
World's Highest Resolution Seamless Display Has 60M Pixels Not just a hi-res display, this is a means of having an arbitrarily large high resolution display. Sixty million pixels is just the beginning. (re: Ray Bradbury, 11/2/2006 ) |
Toshiba Interactive 3D Display Video At SEATAC 2006 Very nice video on Toshiba's slick 3D display, which now seems to offer additional interactive features. (re: George Lucas, 10/14/2006 ) |
Icuity iWear iPod Video Glasses Remarkable realization of the videoshades from the cyberpunk sf era. (re: Bruce Sterling, 9/6/2006 ) |
V-Rambo Wristwatch Video Receiver This device allows soldiers to see on the other side of buildings, or over the next hill, using real-time video. (re: Ray Cummings, 7/27/2006 ) |
AMOEBA Tank Forms Letters Today, Aliens From 'Abyss' Tomorrow Create letters with standing waves; will it be possible to create effects like the water aliens in Abyss sometime soon? (re: , 7/26/2006 ) |
Mitsubishi Aurora Vision LED Screen And H.G. Wells Enormous public high definition screen predicted by H.G. Wells seventy years ago. (re: H.G. Wells, 7/25/2006 ) |
Explay Nano Projector Pocket Display Remarkable display projector is smaller than even science fiction authors imagined. (re: Jack Vance, 7/2/2006 ) |
Vernor Vinge Smart Contact Lens On Wired Vernor Vinge got there first - but Wired drew it up real nice for us. (re: Vernor Vinge, 6/29/2006 ) |
Infernoptix Digital Pyrotechnic Matrix Display Doomsday display or not, one look at this display and you'll forget all about that fancy-pants plasma screen. (re: Various, 5/29/2006 ) |
Heliodisplay M2i - Interactive Midair Touchscreen The newest Heliodisplay offers interactive 'touch screen' features - but you don't actually touch the display that hangs in mid-air. So, it's actually a 'no-touch-screen...' (re: Frank Herbert, 5/17/2006 ) |
Origami Cell Phone Concept Great concepts galore from a company called Inventables; I found one that is a twenty-year-old sf idea. (re: William Gibson, 5/11/2006 ) |
Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP Has Maximum Headroom Science meets science fiction today as you can finally have the online look you wanted; face manicuring (like Bruce Sterling) or full-on avatar (like Max). (re: Bruce Sterling, 5/1/2006 ) |
Apple Apparently Working On Orwell's Telescreen Now, Apple would never create a tool suitable for totalitarian governments - but here's what we could use it for. (re: George Orwell, 4/26/2006 ) |
Brain Port Tongue Vision In Use By Navy SEALs Can the military train you to see sonar like a dolphin with a tongue-based interface? Truth may not always be stranger than fiction - but this time it might be. (re: Various, 4/24/2006 ) |
News E-Papers From Plastic Logic Newspads and mediatrons, science fiction staples, are now making the prototyping rounds. (re: Arthur C. Clarke, 4/24/2006 ) |
PixelOptics SuperVision Optimizes Your Sight You may not be Superman, but SuperVision is closer than you think. The military get it first, then maybe at an optician near you. (re: Various, 4/24/2006 ) |
HIPerWall Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall Think you like your current display? This one might wrap all the way around your dorm room. (re: Ray Bradbury, 4/22/2006 ) |
Philips 100-Inch TV Parlor Ray Bradbury warned us about big TVs; you can just about get one now. (re: Ray Bradbury, 3/8/2006 ) |
True 3D Plasma Display Researchers demonstrate a 3D display that does not depend on binocular eye tricks - and real plasma in mid-air! (re: Edmund Hamilton, 2/23/2006 ) |
Multi-Touch Interaction Overlord Control Screen Use both hands and all your fingers with this interface, just like Earths' Overlords. (re: Arthur C. Clarke, 2/13/2006 ) |
Apple Video iPod - And HG Wells Apple's iPod is a great way to take movies with you. (re: H.G. Wells, 10/12/2005 ) |
Pioneer 3D Hand Waving Interface Here's a way to draw pictures in the air - on your PC. (re: Philip K. Dick, 10/3/2005 ) |
Philips Readius E-Reader With Rollable Display First prototype of a rollable display electronic document reader. (re: William Gibson, 9/4/2005 ) |
The 'Flying Carpet' of Seyed Alavi Stand tall - two miles tall - and walk the earth like a giant on this 'flying carpet.' (re: Larry Niven, 8/30/2005 ) |
Heliodisplay - Futuristic Display Technology Films like Star Wars show how images projected into the air might be used. The Heliodisplay from IO2Technology projects images - both still pictures and video - into mid-air. It works with most video sources. It is also interactive, forming a floatin (re: George Lucas, 8/18/2005 ) |
Toshiba Flatbed 3D Display Remember when R2D2 and Chewbacca were playing a chess-like game with projected pieces? Toshiba invented a table like that. (re: George Lucas, 7/29/2005 ) |
Fujitsu Bendable Electronic Color Display - With Memory The flexible screen has an image memory function that keeps a vivid color picture in view without expending electricity. (re: Larry Niven, 7/13/2005 ) |
Finally, Good Graphics For SF E-Paper Science fiction writers have been talking about the virtues of electronic paper for decades; finally, mobilepc magazine has given us the graphics we've been waiting for in their "Wonders That Will Be" issue. (re: Neal Stephenson, 12/20/2004 ) |
Nomad Virtual-Cockpit Helmet-Mounted Display Commanders in the field need better situational awareness; Microvision has created the Nomad Virtual-Cockpit Helmet-Mounted Display. (re: David Drake, 12/14/2004 ) |
Virtual Retinal Displays Get All Geordi With It Scientists have been hard at work; the Human Interface Technology Laboratory is continuing work on virtual retinal displays - and building in a very Star Trek look while they're at it. (re: Frederik Pohl, 10/30/2004 ) |
Minority Report-Style 'Discovery Informatics' At Purdue University Purdue University researchers are developing a Minority Report-style environment with high-performance computers and artificial intelligence software. The new 'data CAVE' takes a new approach to data-mining. (re: Stephen Spielberg, 10/20/2004 ) |
Microvision Laser Monocle: Technician Retina-Vision Microvision's Nomad Expert Technician System shines laser light right onto your retina, providing images and diagrams that seem to float in the air in front of you. (re: Frederik Pohl, 4/29/2004 ) |
Sony LIBRIe E-Ink Electronic Book Update The Sony LIBRie electronic book solves the most serious problems of past e-book hardware. And, in the near future, it may be able to replace parchment copies of The Daily Prophet, the wizard newspaper from Harry Potter. (re: Neal Stephenson, 4/23/2004 ) |
Projection Commercials: Extreme Plasma Television X3D Technologies has created a projection system for three-dimensional product advertisements. Author Alfred Bester has seen this future, and walked right through it. (re: Alfred Bester, 3/23/2004 ) |
Toshiba SD-Book: An E-Book With Two Pages This unique electronic book has two LCD displays in a very familiar configuration. You have your favorite book open before you, and read it without ever turning a page. (re: Neal Stephenson, 3/22/2004 ) |
9X Media Video Wall: Bradbury's Parlour Walls Come To Life The 9X Media Video Wall, a massive flat panel video display, is probably too expensive to buy on a fireman's salary, but they come very close to the parlour walls from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. (re: Ray Bradbury, 3/22/2004 ) |
Reversible LCD: Two-Sided Electronic Paper Mitsubishi has a prototype reversible LCD panel; a two-sided liquid crystal display that can show different images on each side. Like two-sided smart paper! (re: Neal Stephenson, 3/3/2004 ) |
Philips Rollable Display (Active-Matrix) These remarkable displays are flexible, and can be rolled up and put away when not needed. (re: Larry Niven, 1/27/2004 ) |
Three Dimensional Flat Panel Screen Announced On October 13, 2003 Sharp Electronics released the first laptop computer capable of 3D images without needing to use special glasses, the Actius RD3D. (re: Robert Heinlein, 10/13/2003 ) |
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