"Wow, that phone looks like it's from Star Trek. Beam me up, Scotty"
"You can actually beam up with it."
"What? How?"
"Just press star... and then 'trek'"
"..."
I have one of these...
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jamonterrell
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· Score: 5, Funny
"Imagine a gun that uses fingerprint scanning to prevent you firing a shot,"
And in breaking news scientists have now developed an amazing device to prevent the firing of a gun via a small lever located on the side of the gun. Prior to firing the gun will automatically scan the lever on it's side to determine if the gun should fire. They've dubbed this lever "safety."
-- I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
Re:Vehicle that runs on bad news
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DoktorGonzo
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· Score: 3, Funny
Or one that runs on fear ("The Tick vs. The Big Nothing," anyone?). I bet Tom Ridge has one. "Red" actually means "Alaska is starting to run dry, but I won't give up my SUV."
I'm still waiting.
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bobdotorg
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· Score: 4, Funny
Where are the flying cars? We were promised flying cars. It's 2003 and WTF? No flying cars.
On (in?) the other hand, which sci-fi novel predicted USB powered dildos?
-- __
Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
maybe it will inspire someone to make me a goddamn flying car. Yeh I can just see it 3am the bar closes and 29 drunken rednecks proceed to try to take off from the parking lot.
-- Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers
It looks like a lot of the movies presaging future technologies are based on the works of Philip K. Dick. If that isn't a good reason to be mildly schizophrenic, hide out in your bungalow and eat LSD all day, I don't know what is!
Re:You didn't quite get it.
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Alamaz
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· Score: 2, Funny
The end of the article makes mention of people approaching him to develop the tech they saw in Minority Report. Anybody else smell MS in the mix. Remember their failed attempt at running a battleship with NT technology?
!!! As if cops don't have enough problems . . . just picture a tiny blue screen on a police revolver:
Cop 1: Crap! Cop 2: Whas wrong? Cop 1: Blue screen of Deaaaaargh!!!!!
In the future we will have newspapers that automatically repeat themselves.
Perhaps science fiction's most important invention
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vudufixit
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· Score: 2, Funny
Is the almighty "plot device." The "plot device" is basically any fanciful piece of equipment that is used, altered or modified in the service of resolving story points that actually require some real human problem solving. Many Star Trek TV episodes feature this piece of technology. Independence Day and countless other blockbuster films do, too.
The Plot Device has a real world counterpart. It's embodied in all of our technology, and all of our faith in technology to solve the problems of Nature's and Man's making.
I, for one, can't wait to see the end of that story...
Device from "Weird Science"
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Pettifogger
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· Score: 4, Funny
What we really need is a device that can be hooked to a mid-80s computer that will create really hot women from pictures we cut out of magazines and stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Quite possibly.
Stop right there. I have here the only working phaser ever built. It was fired only once, to keep William Shatner from making another album.
My mom's response to my new phone...
"Wow, that phone looks like it's from Star Trek. Beam me up, Scotty"
"You can actually beam up with it."
"What? How?"
"Just press star... and then 'trek'"
"..."
"Imagine a gun that uses fingerprint scanning to prevent you firing a shot,"
And in breaking news scientists have now developed an amazing device to prevent the firing of a gun via a small lever located on the side of the gun. Prior to firing the gun will automatically scan the lever on it's side to determine if the gun should fire. They've dubbed this lever "safety."
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
Or one that runs on fear ("The Tick vs. The Big Nothing," anyone?).
I bet Tom Ridge has one. "Red" actually means "Alaska is starting to run dry, but I won't give up my SUV."
Where are the flying cars? We were promised flying cars. It's 2003 and WTF? No flying cars.
On (in?) the other hand, which sci-fi novel predicted USB powered dildos?
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Does this mean that I can get my cloaking device now and walk naked around downtown?
maybe it will inspire someone to make me a goddamn flying car.
Yeh I can just see it 3am the bar closes and 29 drunken rednecks proceed to try to take off from the parking lot.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
It looks like a lot of the movies presaging future technologies are based on the works of Philip K. Dick. If that isn't a good reason to be mildly schizophrenic, hide out in your bungalow and eat LSD all day, I don't know what is!
The end of the article makes mention of people approaching him to develop the tech they saw in Minority Report. Anybody else smell MS in the mix. Remember their failed attempt at running a battleship with NT technology?
!!!
As if cops don't have enough problems . . . just picture a tiny blue screen on a police revolver:
Cop 1: Crap!
Cop 2: Whas wrong?
Cop 1: Blue screen of Deaaaaargh!!!!!
Slashdot: droud for nerds. Nothing matters.
In the future we will have newspapers that automatically repeat themselves.
Is the almighty "plot device." The "plot device" is basically any fanciful piece of equipment that is used, altered or modified
in the service of resolving story points
that actually require some real
human problem solving. Many Star Trek
TV episodes feature this piece of technology.
Independence Day and countless other blockbuster
films do, too.
The Plot Device has a real world counterpart.
It's embodied in all of our technology,
and all of our faith in technology to solve
the problems of Nature's and Man's making.
I, for one, can't wait to see the end
of that story...
What we really need is a device that can be hooked to a mid-80s computer that will create really hot women from pictures we cut out of magazines and stuff.
IAAL