“DIY ‘Back to the Future’ hoverboard actually hovers”
Nice. I might even be tempted to buy something like that.
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.
“RIP: Peak Oil – we won’t be running out any time soon”
It’s so hard to find a good, credible, looming disaster to panic about, and then those pesky scientists keep destroying the few that we manage to find. Runaway global warming keeps getting kicked in the teeth by inconvenient facts. Nuclear power disasters persistently refuse to be anywhere near as disastrous as people hope. Scientific advancement …
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“Crush! Kill! Destroy!”
Remember that one? It came from an episode of Lost in Space that I saw when I was maybe seven or eight, and it has stuck with me all these years. I even looked it up a little while back… apparently I’m not the only one it has stuck with.
“Life-size Portal gun to shoot onto shelves soon”
I’m a big fan of the game Portal, and it’s fairly classic, but I’m baffled by this. Replica swords and other medieval weapons I can understand, even replica firearms, but a replica portal gun doesn’t even sound as interesting as a replica lightsaber (which I refuse to even consider until a blade portion actually appears …
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“NASA close to approving first sci-fi flick shot in space”
A science-fiction film actually made in orbit. Talk about… wait for it… a match made in heaven. 😉
“Printed jaw lets woman swallow again”
This sort of thing might have come directly from a science-fiction action story, where the hero is patched up in an unbelievably short time between epic space battles. Who says the future is always far away? 😉
“Conclusive PROOF of human activity causing glacier to VANISH”
“Designer ice cubes“? More proof that life imitates art, I guess. 😉
“Incoming! Self-guiding bullet could strike from a mile away”
I have decidedly mixed feelings about this. Like any tool, it could be either good or evil depending on who wields it, but the amount of power it provides greatly amplifies both possible outcomes — and in another five or ten years, it will probably be available to anyone who’s willing to spend the money. …
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“iPhone doc will detect cancer, diabetes – boffins”
I never thought that I’d live to see a working Star Trek-esque medical tricorder, but it seems that I might… at least a poor-man’s version of one, that requires placing a sample on or in the device. Even better, the smartphones we’re toting around today might already have all the hardware needed, if I’m reading …
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“Star Trek tractor beam to save Earth from asteroid Armageddon”
No, there’s no real Star Trek-style tractor beam (yet, anyway). What they’re discussing is parking a large spacecraft near such an asteroid and using its gravity to drag the asteroid onto a course that would miss the Earth. That assumes that we detect the threat early enough to launch such a craft, get it into …
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