Archive for the ‘Science & Tech’ category
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The ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Computer Gaming Gear Could Be Yours!
Amazon has unveiled images for the ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ keyboard that has been specifically designed for the SWTOR MMO that was released last December. The keyboard by Razer has an LCD track panel, fully programmable keys, gold backlit illumination on all keys, and... -
Could A ‘Minority Report’ Advertising Interface Become A Reality?
According to TechCrunch recently, SoftKinetic has developed a new way for advertisers to deliver their messages. The new technology would personalize advertisements, targeting individuals in public spaces. People would approach a display equipped with SoftKinetic’s 3D camera... -
Foldit: More Than Just A Game
When I was fourteen, I became obsessed with ‘The Legend of Zelda’. Although my father played Atari games occasionally, he did not understand my hours spent with ‘Zelda’ when I constantly replayed areas, took notes, and perfected my homemade maps on pages and pages... -
How Probable Is A Zombie Virus Outbreak?
I like zombies. Fictional zombies. Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a classic, and I am fan of ‘The Walking Dead’ and of killing zombies in video games. The rise in popularity of zombie fiction has seen a variety of sources of survival tips including books (‘The... -
Science Feature: Lost In Hilbert Space
In an SF story I was once writing I needed to get the hero out of his closed prison cell. In the old physics, he could simply have blown a hole in the wall with some explosives – but of course, the guards never let him have any. In physics terms, the scientist is trapped... -
Science Feature: Friends and Lovers
You may have first learned your Myers-Briggs personality-type indicator (MBTI) through work. Perhaps you went for a job and they gave you a battery of psychometric tests; or maybe there was a team-building or personal development program and the instructor told you about the... -
Science Feature: The NeoCat
In the early hours I was awakened by paws, patting their silent way across my duvet. Claws slid across my cheek, encouraging my sleep-glued eyes to open. I awoke to behold the neocat as it sat, ghostly-green, on the pillow. ‘Caught-a-vole, caught-a-vole, caught-a-vole!’ it... -
Science Feature: God’s Rod
The Teacher stood at the mouth of the cave and gazed up at the midnight sky. Stars like jewels shone out over the freezing Afghan desert. Deep inside the caverns behind him, his followers were gathered around warm fires, talking quietly and preparing to sleep. From beyond the... -
Science Feature: Our Universe From Nothing At All
Many visitors to ScienceFiction.com will be familiar with the timeline of the Big Bang, the idea that our universe started from some kind of ‘gigantic explosion’ some 13.6 billion years ago. But this is not the version of reality accepted by most cosmologists: their... -
We Could See A Living Wooly Mammoth Clone In 5 To 10 Years
The next one might not be frozen. Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg may have egregiously left Mammoths out of Jurassic Park in lieu of their reptilian predecessors, but scientists now claim that cloning a Wooly Mammoth is a very real possibility and it might not take as... -
Science Feature: I Think, Therefore I Am
I first met René Descartes’ famous aphorism, “I think, therefore I am”, when I was a young teen. Naturally I wasted no time in deciding that the Great Man’s thought was trite and glib, a maxim whose proper home was surely the tee-shirt. Later, at university, I took philosophy... -
Science Feature: Newton’s Collapsing Universe
Sir Isaac Newton was possibly the greatest scientist who ever lived. But even great men can make mistakes – it’s just that their errors are more interesting than other people’s. Newton’s law of motion (force equals mass times acceleration) is taught in every high... -
Science Feature: Mind Reading
Michael vectors the hidden camera to a wealthy-looking patron on his first course. A click on the joystick and the second screen lights up: this is the one that reads the client’s mind. Mr. Rich-Guy seems happy enough according to the emotion-bar at the bottom of the display.... -
Science Feature: Has Greg Egan Gone Too Far?
Once upon a time, one of our most noted authors of ultra-hard SF wrote a novel about a bunch of aliens living in the interior of an asteroid in close orbit around a black hole. The author, Greg Egan, was so incensed by one of the reviews of this book – by Adam Roberts at Strange... -
Science Feature: Live Forever
Petra was brought into my office. There is something about it being the last day of your life which modulates every emotion: Petra looked scared, resigned, even – against the odds – slightly hopeful – but most of all she just looked bone-achingly weary. I stopped...
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mrgrimme: Boom, great review. Two things though... the timeline diverged at Kirks birth, with the ...
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