Topics pertaining to science fiction and/or fantasy, in book, TV show, or movie formats.
Boing Boing has a fascinating entry on technology-induced synaesthesia today. Human vision, and visual interpretation of non-visual data, has always fascinated me. This goes one step further, because it mentions using this sort of thing to overcome physical sensory defects (such as inner-ear problems affecting balance).
One of those little technologies (mentioned in SF novels in passing) that has always fascinated me is self-cooking foods, or food packaging that automatically cooks the food it contains when it’s opened. That’s why I was delighted to see this story on Boing Boing just now. Geek heaven! Now, if they can just do the …
Okay, I admit it. I broke down and went to see it this afternoon. I knew it would be mobbed this evening and all weekend, and I just didn’t want to wait. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll just say that the changes (that I could detect, anyway) are few and fairly tolerable, …
As a long-time fan of Spider-Man stories, I was somewhat disturbed at the changes that were made to the canonical Spider-Man for the recent movies. The radioactive spider was out, replaced by a genetically-spliced one — more hip and new-millennium, you know. He now generated webbing from within his arms, instead of using a fast-setting …
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All sorts of interesting news today… this article talks about biofeedback technology being used in games. It’s a nice idea, but I don’t think this one’s going to happen real soon either: “Mom, I need a biofeedback controller for my Nintendo.” “A what?” “It’s this really neat thing that reads your mind and lets you …
This is one of those little SF technologies, like the flying car, that has long been dreamed of but has never happened. It’s easy to understand why the flying car hasn’t — safety concerns, security concerns, and price. But the only reason I can come up with against short-range wireless power is the chicken-and-egg problem: …
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The first line of this article goes “A group of American aerospace engineers have written a book on how to defend the earth against alien invasion.” I have to ask… why would an alien race bother?