http://www.technovelgy.com/ The inventions of sf writers come to life in today's headlines at Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction. en-us Copyright 2004-2012, Bill Christensen From the Office of the Chief Technologist. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3647 Dangerous professions can be made safer with robots. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3646 Linked chains of polymer molecules... with 'dangling side chain' molecules. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3645 Human courage plus technological progress equals science fiction in the news! (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3644 'Why simulation?' 'He's beginning to do things I didn't anticipate.' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3643 For once, an sf author filed a patent on a great idea - Hugo Gernsback saw this one coming. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3642 Unique control surfaces are everywhere, it seems. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3641 'Automatic relays clicked as the robot studied the identification clip.' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3640 '...new islands bringing life to a watery desert.' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3639 Robots continue to become more capable. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3638 'For a wild instant he had thought there was a man on Jupiter already...' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3637 Cadillac luxury, in an autonomous vehicle. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3635 'The population density shocked McKie...' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3636 Clever device lets researchers use those red/blue 3D glasses they picked up at the local theater... (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3634 '... a lifesize and moving and stereoscopically perfect image, flashed across the void of space to my apparatus by means of etheric vibrations...' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3633 'You're biochemically incapable of getting off...' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3632 'There was the butler robot, hard at work, his copper face expressionless.' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3631 Will farms become safer with robots? (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3630 First successful perching on a human hand. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3629 'It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.' (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3628 A device that used bone conduction to transmit sound. From the 1923 story Acoustic Apparatus (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2222 An impenetrable device containing information for your eyes only. From the 1951 story Foundation (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2221 A gentleman's servant, roboticized. From the 1951 story The Jester (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2220 Devices used by homeostatic newspapers to gather news autonomically. From the 1963 story If There Were No Benny Cemoli (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2219 A single-home solar-powered energy source. From the 1952 story Ring Around the Sun (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2218 A pre-built house that can live off the grid. From the 1952 story Ring Around the Sun (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2217 An autonomous device that kept itself hidden while keeping track of an individual's activity. From the 1952 story Ring Around the Sun (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2216 An institution of learning where regular folks learned how to start a farm on an asteroid. From the 1951 story Asteroid of Fear (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2215