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SciFi to Real Life

Pimping your Gadgets with Sci-Fi Accessories

July 1, 2011

Once upon a time, portable computers were something confined just to the movies. Now we have multi-touch devices (think of the screens in Minority Report) and advanced personal communicators (we’ve had mobile phones for ages, but this is classic from Star Trek). Tablet PCs are also pretty common in Stargate Atlantis (but oddly they all [...]

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Spray On Clothes, Tshirts and Dresses Now a Reality!

September 22, 2010

Fabrican has patented an instant, sprayable, non-woven fabric, and now demonstrates that its not a scifi myth, but a reality. The product is being demonstrated at the London Fashion Week, and can be used to make Tshirts and Dresses (may be a bit cold for under garments )
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Developed through a [...]

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50 Cyborgs From Movies, Music, Manga, Games, Cartoons and Real Life

September 15, 2010

This post is inspired by Tim Maly’s 50 posts about Cyborgs, to celebrate the 50 years since the term was introduced.
Cyborg is a term coined in 1960 , when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. Also referred to as a cybernetic [...]

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Battlestar Galactica Ruined My Marriage And other Stories

September 14, 2010

Its interesting to see how Scifi Fandom affects peoples lives. Some people obsess about rebuilding props, sets and owning actual memorabilia. Others, well just obsess about their favourite shows, and sometimes this has unintended consequences. Some sink deep in depression with the coming of a less than stellar Scifi film, smashing hopes. Some lash out [...]

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5 Real-Life Spy Gadgets straight from Hollywood

August 24, 2010

Spy technology used to reside in the realms of the world’s superpowers and the Hollywood film industry. In popular culture, espionage has always been associated with amazing gadgetry that facilitates the covert and clandestine operations of spies. In recent years, gadgets that in the past were exclusive to government and corporate spies have been making [...]

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Invisibility Cloak – From Sci Fi To Harry Potter To Reality

March 19, 2010

Invisibility is the state of an object which cannot be seen. An object in this state is said to be Invisible (literally, “not visible”). The term is usually used as a fantasy/science fiction term, where objects are literally made unseeable by magical or technological means; however, its effects can also be seen in the real [...]

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