“‘Star Trek’ communicators free up doctors’ time”
Quite interesting…
Archive of posts filed under the Science Fiction and Fantasy category.
Topics pertaining to science fiction and/or fantasy, in book, TV show, or movie formats.
The Dark Knight
GoddessJ and I finally managed to see The Dark Knight last night, on our third try (the previous two tries were all sold out by the time we got there, for the entire evening). It’s good — damn good! After watching the scene where Batman wrecks the Batmobile, and then suddenly takes off in its …
“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”
I like most of what Joss Whedon comes up with (the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and Firefly, for instance), so when I heard that he was involved in this site, I had to check it out. I’m not sure who plays Dr. Horrible, though he looks very familiar (he might be one of the …
The HandSolo Mobile
This was apparently an April Fool’s joke that I just saw for the first time. After I stopped laughing, I started thinking… it actually sounds like a good idea, at least to a point.
“Doomsday fears spark lawsuit over collider”
Sorry, but I don’t buy it. In my work with compression theory, I learned a lot about probability. If any of these doomsday scenarios were possible, they would have happened somewhere in the universe already — probably a lot of somewheres — and science would have seen some evidence of them. Like most good scientists, …
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RIP Gary Gygax, “Father of D&D”
A moment of silence please, to mourn the passing of the creator of a game that defined a generation of young nerds, including yours truly. (Thanks, Joshua.)
The Ever-More-Ubiquitous Webcam
In the David Brin SF novel Kiln People, the main character (a detective) follows someone’s movements at one point by tracking them via the public and private webcams that cover nearly every square inch of the city. When the book was first released in 2002, the reader could have been forgiven for thinking that was …
“Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells”
Science meets science fiction, and people benefit, once again. 🙂
“Researchers share video contact lens vision”
In-eye TV, anyone?
“Interview with author of Love & Sex With Robots”
This article interests me. Not for the prurient aspects — sorry, I’m just not all that interested in dolls, even life-sized and anatomically-correct ones — but for what happens when artificial intelligence can make them a lot more real? When you can easily believe that a robotic woman is the real thing, except that she’s …
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