Robot unemployment hits all-time high...Maybe it did TOO good a job? The town of Dublin, Ohio has fired a police officer. This particular officer...
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Living in the Future
Every now and then, some mundane thing in my daily life makes me pause and realize that I’m living in the future. Sure, there’s plenty of room for both SciFi dreams and nightmares in the future future, but lots of things today really are kind of amazing. This recurring “Living in the Future” topic explores those, along with past SciFi roots that might have inspired them.
City-Cooling Bricks
Smart bricks for hot cities Cities get hotter than the surrounding countryside. Heat Islands are a long-known phenomenon, largely attributable to...
Universal Vaccines
Is this the end to mutation whack-a-mole? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a universal coronavirus vaccine. That’s awesome....
Tangible holograms
Images you can move with your hands Did you ever watch Minority Report or any MCU movie and drool over the idea of having a computer...
Tech-enhanced instruments
You don’t need a music teacher to get started When Guitar Hero came out in 2005, a lot of players caught flack for playing plastic guitars...
Phantom Chess
For the modern enthusiast with old world style. First They Had Chessboards, Then Computers, Now This. Chess is among the oldest games on Earth, and...
Nanoleaf
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Withings BeamO
It’s got a few key functions covered In the Star Trek universe, a tricorder is a handheld miracle capable of scanning and analyzing just...
Electric Cars – Do Androids Dream of Electric Vehicles?
The roads are quietly evolving Year by year, electric vehicle adoption inches higher. Gasoline isn’t going to be around forever, and even while it...
Future tech sample platter (CES 2026)
Some of the future is on sale, but it’s expensive Every year, the future gets a little bit closer. Some of it arrives. A few bits and pieces fade...
AI-Assisted Archaeology
How to build a better archaeologist. AI needed a hobby, and this could be it. Between roughly fifteen hundred and twenty-two hundred years ago, in...
Delivery robots
Delivery food, minus some stranger’s car. Note: Don’t tip the robot. How would you feel if you order a burger and fries on Uber Eats and a little...
Interactive art exhibit
Step Into the World of Art - Literally A framed picture on a wall. A parade of tourists marches past with a glance. Some pretentious bohemian with a...
Bird Buddy
Do You Like Birds? I’ll Show You Birds!Or at least, this fun gadget will… Binoculars, field guide, hiking boots, there’s a standard, stereotypical...
Water-reduced vegetables
Researchers at TAU have developed a water-conserving technology for tomatoes using one of my favorite technology platforms: CRISPR. Specifically,...
Disney Holodecks
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Brain.fm
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Fluora smart plants
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Flying Cars
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The End of Backbreaking Labor
Job posting from 2040: Entry level construction job Will be supervising 20 employees No physical limitations You’ll be building bridges and...
Google Maps Timeline: The Argument-Killing Machine
"We haven’t been to X in ages." "What was the name of that little Italian place we stopped at the day we went to Y?" "Yes, we went to Z on our...
Yachts Are Evolving – Into Starships?
Early space travel was never going to be cheap… When I came up with the story of Hotel Caledonia (mission 7 of Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire ), the...
Genetically engineered plants
Your Garden Center Doesn’t Carry THESE (yet…) Maybe you wanted to add a pop of color to a living space or just enjoy tending to living things and...
SciFi contact lenses – the biggest monitor is the smallest
Early in Terminator 2 we are privy to a view from the terminator’s perspective. Cast in villainous shades of red, it shows an augmented reality...