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SpaceX Wants A Moonbase Alpha
'And he had been sent with troops, supplies and bombs to command Russia's most trusted post, the Moonbase.' - L. Ron Hubbard, 1948. (4/6/2024) |
Vast Apartment Living Will Get Even More Vast
'What is your population', I asked. 'About eighty millions.' - Louis Tucker, 1929. (4/4/2024) |
NASA Wants Self-Driving Or Remote-Controlled Vehicles For Lunar Astronauts
'THE autobus turned silently down the wide street of Hydropole. Robot-guided, insulated from noise and cold...' (4/2/2024) |
Elon Musk Says Robotaxis Will Be Ready This August, 2024
'The car had no steering wheel, and no one drove!' (3/30/2024) |
Moonwalkers AI-Controlled Electric Shoes
Now that's power walking that Hugo Gernsback would have approved. (3/28/2024) |
Steve Jobs: 'Capture The Next Aristotle - With AI'
'It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct...' (3/26/2024) |
No Tips! Robotic Food Delivery In Phoenix
'...he rewired the delivery robot so that it would serve him midnight snacks.' Robert Heinlein, 1962. (3/24/2024) |
Electric Catamaran 'Explorer Eco 40m' Has 'Solar Skin'
'On went the electric-yacht faster and still faster.' - John Baker Hopkins, 1885. (3/22/2024) |
Orbital Mechanics, The Liftoff, The Turnover, The Retrograde Burn
'...the huge vessel had spun, with a sickening lurch, through a complete half-circle, the instant the power was reversed.' - EE 'Doc' Smith, 1928. (3/20/2024) |
Harvest Power From Tears And Blinking With Smart Contact Lens
'...he realized that it was not quite a clear lens. Speckles of colored brightness swirled and gathered in it.' - Vernor Vinge, 2001. (3/18/2024) |
Europa Clipper Plate Carries A Special Message
'...a universal cryptogram — yet it is one which can be interpreted by any intelligent creature on any planet in the Solar System!' - (3/16/2024) |
Micro-Robots Are Smallest, Fully Functional
'With a whir, the Scarab shot from the concealing shadows of the corner where it had hidden itself.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936. (3/14/2024) |
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Artificial Skin
Tight-fitting material that keeps the heat of the body from escaping into space.
(From Between Earth and Moon [1930] by Otfrid von Hanstein) |
Fixed Star Advertising
In which the positions of the fixed stars are changed to form advertising.
(From Pi in the Sky [1945] by Frederic Brown) |
Star-Globe (3D Map)
A celestial star map, done in three dimensions.
(From Pi in the Sky [1945] by Frederic Brown) |
Individual Flyer
Personal antigravity and wing unit.
(From Asteroid Pirates [1938] by Royal W. Heckman) |
Interplanetary Restaurant
An eatery and watering hole designed for use by a variety of space-faring races.
(From Asteroid Pirates [1938] by Royal W. Heckman) |
Automaton Steam Surgeon
Mechanized surgery.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
Ship That Swims Under Water (Submarine)
A Ship that could swim under Water.
(From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World [1666] by Margaret Cavendish) |
Rocketrix
A female rocket pilot.
(From Redemption Cairn [1936] by Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum) |
Bladder Birds
Alien life well adapted.
(From Redemption Cairn [1936] by Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum) |
Metallic Fingers
Robot fingers.
(From Rex [1934] by Harl Vincent) |
Solar-Powered Electric Runabout
A vehicle powered from the sun.
(From Let There Be Light [1940] by Lyle Monroe) |
Exfection
Tailored microbes to repair human flesh.
(From The Caryatids [2009] by Bruce Sterling) |
Radar
Detection of objects at a distance.
(From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo Gernsback) |
Appetizer
An amazing adjunct to science-based restaurants; a room that increases appetite with gas!
(From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo Gernsback) |
Food Pellets
Sustenance in a concentrated form.
(From The Republic of the Future [1887] by Anna Dodd) |
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Ten Years Ago In Technovelgy
E. Coli Forced To Evolve: Old Bacterium Learns New Trick
The general method was remarkably similar to a technique used by award-winning sf author Theodore Sturgeon in his classic 1941 story Microcosmic God. (re: Theodore Sturgeon) |
Nanotechnology Grand Challenge Events Called For
We've all had fun watching the recent Grand Challenge race run by DARPA. Let's help DARPA set up the nanotechnology Grand Challenge for very small vehicles. (re: Technovelgy.com) |
da Vinci Surgical Robot: Dr.'s Helper
A 2004 University of Michigan study noted that patients who were operated on with robotic surgeon assistance recovered more quickly with fewer or less obtrusive scars using a surgical robot. Similar devices are used in telemedicine; read a wry encoun (re: Peter Watts) |
Contour Crafting: 3D House Printer
Perhaps you've used those programs that let you design your dream house, creating a Computer Aided Design (CAD) file. Not quite ready to take up the hammer and start building? What if you could just "print" your house? (re: Bruce Sterling) |
RobotCop III - Not Quite R. Daneel Olivaw
In his classic 1953 robot story Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov teamed a human detective with a robotic one - R. Daneel Olivaw. Hong Kong has been testing robotic police officers for years, and has now introduced RobotCop III. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Poweriser: Extreme Sports Gear from The Diamond Age
In The Diamond Age, author Neal Stephenson creates a vivid picture of a future Shanghai. The novel mixes "futuristic" devices based on nanotechnology with simpler mechanical devices that are almost Victorian in their simplicity...
Imagine my surpri (re: Neal Stephenson) |
DARPA's BigDog Robot And Bradbury's Mechanical Hound
In his chilling 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury created the mechanical hound, a robot that accompanied the firemen and helped with their work... DARPA has made a multi-million dollar investment in the soldier of the future's best friend - Big (re: Ray Bradbury) |
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