{"id":9231,"date":"2011-05-09T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9231"},"modified":"2013-03-27T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T13:53:23","slug":"gadgets-from-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/gadgets-from-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadgets from science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.com\/2011\/05\/09\/ten_fantasy_gadgets_you_wish_you_owned\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Cox<\/a> rounds up ten geeky gadgets from science fiction shows and movies that he thinks we&#8217;d all like to have:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow is always round the corner in the world of tech, and gadgets that started life in the imaginations of mad folk are starting to become a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Tools that give us superpowers may seem impossible, but ultramobile computing is a reality these days, with commonplace kit that seems more capable than devices Gene Roddenberry dreamt up.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve already looked at fantasy blades you wished you owned, it&#8217;s about time we talked-up the fantasy tech, after all, we are <em>Reg Hardware<\/em>. So here&#8217;s ten of our favourite gadgets from popular culture that may or may not be the tech of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if there&#8217;s anything you think we&#8217;ve missed and give us your views on its commercial prospects in the comments section at the end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His choices are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloaking device &mdash; <em>Predator<\/em>\n<li>Holodeck &mdash; <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hologram communication &mdash; <em>Star Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Orgasmatron &mdash; <em>The Sleeper<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Peril Sensitive Sunglasses &mdash; <em>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Personality glasses &mdash; <em>Joe 90<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sonic Screwdriver &mdash; <em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Timebooth &mdash; <em>Bill &#038; Ted&#8217;s Excellent Adventure<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Telepathic Lens &mdash; The Lensman series<\/li>\n<li>Teleportation belt &mdash; <em>The Tomorrow People<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Cox rounds up ten geeky gadgets from science fiction shows and movies that he thinks we&#8217;d all like to have: Tomorrow is always round the corner in the world of tech, and gadgets that started life in the imaginations of mad folk are starting to become a possibility. Tools that give us superpowers may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[894,122,85,223,193,101],"class_list":["post-9231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-doctorwho","tag-movies","tag-sf","tag-startrek","tag-starwars","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2oT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19604,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions\/19604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}