Tag Archives : science fiction

Ecco Camper by NAU Encourages You to Start Exploring the Great Outdoors

Ecco Camper by NAU Encourages You to Start Exploring the Great Outdoors

Ecco Camper concept from NAU is an all electric and futuristic concept that takes your breath away. In fact, we have not been seeing quite a lot of interesting designs and this one comes as a breather which we have been waiting for a long time. The camper is designed to be eco-friendly, and is also meant to make you feel as if you are straight out of [...]
Wrist Mounted Displays for the U.S Army Straight out of the Fallout

Wrist Mounted Displays for the U.S Army Straight out of the Fallout

Science fictions or video games never cease to amaze us.  The ahead of time and make believe sequences or stuffs have always fascinated us till no end. Of late the U.S Army seems to have fallen for them. A mini computer wrapped around the wrist which draws an odd similarity to the Pip-Boy 3000(an arm mounted Personal Information Processor) is where [...]
Print your own food

Print your own food

The Brazilian Marcelo Coelho and his Israeli counterpart Amit Zoran are co-creators of a dream of science fiction that can print from food combinations created by users. Researchers at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created machines that mix, prepare and, incredibly, “print” foods. The project is called [...]
Dr Who for games is almost here

Dr Who for games is almost here

As of June 5, the game City of the Daleks will be available for download at BBC English TV channel, as the first of a series of four “interactive episodes” of the science fiction series Doctor Who The games that make up the “Doctor Who: The Adventure Games” were developed by British company Sumo Digital and will be compatible with PCs [...]
The Scientific Plausibility, Environmental Message, and Political Statement of ‘Avatar’ (oh, what the heck, enjoy it as a visual spectacle)

The Scientific Plausibility, Environmental Message, and Political Statement of ‘Avatar’ (oh, what the heck, enjoy it as a visual spectacle)

Charles Q. Choi in his article entitled The Real Science of ‘Avatar’ in SPACE.com states that “the movie is set on the fictional Pandora, one of the many moons of a fictional Saturn-sized gas giant, Polyphemus, which is located in the real Alpha Centauri system, which at nearly 4.4 light-years away is the closest star system to Earth. [...]
Avatar’s Moon Pandora:  could leap from science fiction to reality soon

Avatar’s Moon Pandora: could leap from science fiction to reality soon

The current movie hit Avatar shows humans visiting ‘the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora.’ Such ‘life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.’ Soon, what science fiction used to offer in the realm of habitable moons may just become a reality with the [...]
Virtuality: The Insider Story

Virtuality: The Insider Story

Ronald D Moore’s Virtuality has wowed the hearts of many people and we have all been sighing over the cute crew members. Now we get to see an insider’s feel of what it is like to be part of the famous FOX Network show, as io9 interviewed Michael Taylor and asked him for more details. The interview deals with the script, changes, how technology [...]
Alien CD Rack if You Ever Get Abducted

Alien CD Rack if You Ever Get Abducted

Imagine you are traveling in an inter galactic space ship and you suddenly see there is nothing out in the space but a huge rock. The rock turns out to be a planet on which live strange alien beings. Somehow these aliens are impressed by your CD collection and ask for a ransom, if you do not give them all your CDs, you would be used for ‘test’. Well, [...]
Google Backs the Idea of Machines Being Smarter than Humans

Google Backs the Idea of Machines Being Smarter than Humans

Apparently, there is a new Singularity University, which is being chaired by Raymond Kurzweil. The idea of the University is to study and prepare for the day when machines, computers, and robots will be smarter than humans. Interestingly, Google has backed the idea and is ‘supporting’ the ‘University’ to conduct such studies. [...]
Steampunk Phone Looks Cooler Than 3G Phones

Steampunk Phone Looks Cooler Than 3G Phones

The idea behind Steampunk movement is to rebel against the modern and connect the distant past that ran on steam with a future that is ethical, innocent, and ‘green’ like the steam era of the early 20th century and late 19th century was. If you were not satisfied with previous launches of Steampunk mice and keyboards, you can now expect [...]