Tag: SCI-FI

There may not be a more prescient, or dichotomous, living author than Ray Bradbury. The sci-fi writer has foretold of numerous modern gadgets and gizmos; in his classic 1953 novel 'Fahrenheit 451,' he wrote of flat-screen interactive televisions and headphones eerily similar to ear buds. His story 'The Veldt' describes in great detail "Happy-life Homes," a remarkable precursor to technologically ...

The movies are just rife with awesome gadgets and inventions that would come in pretty handy in the real world. My Small Business, a blog at the Sydney Morning Herald, compiled a list of its 10 favorite movie inventions, including details about potential real-world uses, and whether or not they're real (or even feasible). The list includes obvious options, like the 'Men in Black' 'neuralizer' ...

Discovery.com has rounded up some of Hollywood's most ridiculous explanations for time travel, including Superman reversing the earth and the quantum mechanics and "exotic material" underlying [SPOILER ALERT] the time-hopping island in 'Lost.' The time-traveling trope has been a stalwart in science fiction since the 18th century, and continues to be a defining characteristic of the genre. ...

If you've ever watched an episode of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' you know that many of science-fiction's predictions prove to be incredibly ridiculous and inaccurate. Thankfully, the learned sci-fi enthusiasts at Neatorama have compiled a Top 10 list of sci-fi gadgets and expeditions that actually have come to fruition, and of who, exactly, first articulated those prescient glimpses into the ...

Movies have long had an obsession with erasing memories. 'Total Recall,' 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind,' and 'Men in Black' all feature the intentional manipulation of memory as a central plot point. Until now, the concept of selectively erasing memories has dwelt in the realm of science fiction, but scientists believe they have made a major step towards making such a procedure a reality. ...

We've seen a myriad of display technologies come and go: CRT, LCD, SED, OLED, Plasma, Laser, and more. They've all had their respective day in the sun, even if they never really came to have an impact on the consumer market. Trying to figure out the next big thing is always a bit of a crap shoot, but Japanese researchers are expecting that by 2020 we could see holographic displays that could ...

Yesterday an icon in the world of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, died. The 90-year-old geek patriarch suffered from post-polio syndrome. Clarke is best known for his novel '2001: A Space Odessy' which began life as short story called 'The Sentinel' before Stanley Kubrick turned it into a hallucinatory sci-fi epic. Clarke is also credited with having first conjured up the idea of space ...