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Not your typical 'smart bullet' approach. (SF in the News)
'It rested among green parklands and... stood in total isolation, a glittering block of whites and flashing windows dotted with colors.'- Pournelle and Niven, 1981 (SF in the News)
CARMAT Bioprosthetic Total Human Heart Replacement
'George Walt's corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...'- Philip K. Dick, 1964. (SF in the News)
'...The ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound.'- Ray Bradbury, 1953. (SF in the News)
See the future of handheld, personal medical devices used with your smartphone. (SF in the News)
The Interplanetary Internet, Vint Cerf Speaking
'This was the center of Interplanetary Communications.'- George O. Smith, 1942. (SF in the News)
Drosophila Robotica, The Mechanical Fly
'... the Scarab [flying robot] buzzed into the great workroom as any intruding insect might...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936. (SF in the News)
Robo-Raven Flapping Wing Robot Bird
'When he had first built them, they had been crude indeed, flying mechanisms with little more than a reflex-response unit.'- Philip E. High, 1968. (SF in the News)
Japan's Nursing Home Robot Plan
Let's make the Roujin Z-0001 Robotic Bed! (SF in the News)
Samsung Smart TVs With Gesture Control
'He waved his hand and the circuit switched abruptly.'- Philip K. Dick, 1955. (SF in the News)
Swiss HCPVT Giant Photovoltaic 'Flower'
'...leaning against one of the slender stalks of a sunshade-photocell collector.'- David Brin, 1990. (SF in the News)
Mini-Livers Made By 3D Printer
Organlegging may not be the growth industry that some fear. (SF in the News)
Smartphone Sensor System Tracks Gunfire
'Sound trackers on the roof could zero in on weapons action...'-Greg Bear, 2007. (SF in the News)
Bacteria Now Make Biofuel Like Oil
'They have ... germs that eat pretty near anything, and produce oil as a waste product.'- Hal Clement, 1950. (SF in the News)
Peel And Stick Thin Film Solar Cells
'It turns sunlight into electricity, just like any solar power converter, but you spray it on.'- Larry Niven, 1995. (SF in the News)
A Big Collection Of Small Books
'Black, oblong, no larger than the end of Paul's thumb... It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers.'- Frank Herbert, 1965. (SF in the News)
Mu-Gripper Microsurgical 'Robots'
'It took about seven minutes ... for the cookie cutters to be randomly distributed throughout the victim's organs and limbs.'- Neal Stephenson, 1995. (SF in the News)
'He sipped the cognac that the robot bartender handed him...'- Alfred Bester, 1956. (SF in the News)
Microbattery Extreme High Performance
'To this Foyle affixed a power pack the size of a pea and switched it on.'- Alfred Bester, 1956. (SF in the News)
Fujitsu Touchscreen Mixes Real And Virtual Worlds
'His hands flashed over the keyboard - it had not been there a moment before, but it was operative...'- Frederik Pohl, 1965. (SF in the News)
A drug that party relieves the need for sleep. From the 1966 story Fantastic Voyage (Novel) (new Technovelgy item)
Polar Ice by Roger MacBride Allen
Water ice at the poles of the Moon. From the 1990 story The Ring of Charon (new Technovelgy item)
Sunshade-Photocell Collector by David Brin
A fanciful design for a device that gathers solar energy. From the 1990 story Earth (new Technovelgy item)
Specialized humans who excel at engineering tasks. From the 2006 story Storm Thief (new Technovelgy item)
A device that allows a pursuer to follow a spaceship through hyperspace. From the 1953 story Second Foundation (new Technovelgy item)
Computer Virus by Gregory Benford
A software program that copies itself to other computers. From the 1970 story The Scarred Man (new Technovelgy item)
Device secured to a person that ensures compliant behavior by threat of force. From the 2006 story Storm Thief (new Technovelgy item)
Device for secure communication. From the 2006 story Storm Thief (new Technovelgy item)