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tqft sent in this article about science fiction devices and concepts making it to the real world.

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  1. Shortest Slashdot article ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quite possibly.

  2. The Collector: by efishta · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Wow... by Nastard · · Score: 4, Funny

    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'"

    "..."

  4. I have one of these... by jamonterrell · · 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."

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  5. I'm still waiting. by bobdotorg · · 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?

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  6. in the future by js7a · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the future we will have newspapers that automatically repeat themselves.

  7. Device from "Weird Science" by Pettifogger · · 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.

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