From Trekkie tricorders to Wolverine’s wares, we look at 7 Science Fiction Technology That
Actually Exists Now.
7.
Tricorder • You
heard right folks, they’ve finally invented the oh so sexy, oh so sleek tricorders used
in Star Trek.
• A Tricorder is a nifty machine that the medical team used to scan bodies for vital
signs and even in engineering to diagnose what’s wrong with the starship.
It took so long but scientists have finally developed a real life tricorder; it’s called
the Scanadu and it can tell your core temperature, blood oxygenation, heart rate and even blood
pressure in just 30 seconds by holding a little device against your forehead.
While the Scanadu is pretty rad, it won’t be able to diagnose your Starfleet engine,
yet.
• We’re still in the early stages of getting the a full-fledged, Shatner-esque tricorder
but we’re getting closer.
There’s a competition to create called the Tricorder X prize, which challenges entrants
to create a hand-held device capable of diagnosing a bunch of diseases.
So fingers crossed this year we’ll finally have tricorders that are the real McCoy, instead
of just the Bones.
Oh that’s terrible.
6.
Demolition Man • Virtual reality headsets have taken us
one step closer to the hot sex in the Demolition man.
Except ours aren’t two-player.
• They’re more for enhancing your masturbatory missions.
Let’s not forget the very hot and very weird sex Sandra Bullock has with Stallone using
headsets that make your brain feel like you’re actually getting your trunk stroked.
And now with virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift you can have the fully immersive
porn experience wet dreams are made of.
• In fact, in the modern world, VR porn might be the closest thing you can get to
someone else touching your junk without having to pay a prostitute, or go Tinder-hunting.
Maybe one day we’ll have the type of headsets that link us to other people but for now,
it’s a one player game.
5.
Adamantium • For the noobs in the back; Wolverine’s
super strength endoskeleton is made of a crazy strong fictional metal called Adamantium.
Only now, it’s not so fictional.
• Scientists have finally invented a metal that’s so strong it’s like a real life
Wolverine is just around the corner.
Well, sort of.
It’s in the theoretical stage still.
The as yet alloy is light weight, with a potential melting point of about 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
• It’s made from the very rare metal called hafnium, mixed with some good ol’ carbon
and nitrogen.
Even though it’s still early days, we’re one step closer to a real life X-men.
That’s what I call squad goals.
4.
Evil Robots • The most advanced AI ever created recently
admitted on live television that she wants to destroy all of humanity.
I’m betting it was that time of the month where Sophie needs a reboot.
Uhh also Terminator called and wants to know why the shit you invented Skynet.
• Not to mention the scientists that recently created a robot that’s able to learn from
its experiences and surroundings.
So of course it has tried to escape a number of times despite being reprogrammed.
They’re probably going to dismantle him after he caused chaos by wandering into traffic.
• I for one am terrified and a little aroused.
Just think of what this kind of technology means for the sex toy industry.
You’ll be able to have a sex toy that knows what it’s being used for and then run away
or jump into a garbage disposal.
3.
Invisibility Cloaks • Harry Potter is a little less sci-fi and
more fantasy but this invention is so cool, I’m going to allow it.
• Hold onto your wands folks: they’ve invented a flipping invisibility cloak but
you can’t go snooping into the girl’s Gryffindor dormitories yet.
Scientists have developed a material that makes raised objects appear flat.
Finally, a product that hides your boner.
Well, other than the waistband of your pants.
• The material uses different layers with electric properties that an object which would
have scattered the surface waves.
It’s sort of like if camo-pants actually camouflaged you instead of just making you
look like a tool.
2.
Rail gun • For the fellow nerdilicious homeboys playing
at home, the railgun is old hat in the sci-fi world.
• They’ve been used in Elysium, Babylon 5 and Wesley Snipes uses one in the previously
mentioned Demolition Man.
So what are these epic pinnacles of sci-fi?
They’re basically projectile launchers that use electromagnetic energy instead of gun
powder.
They’re fast as hell and they fire further than your run of the mill guns.
• And of course America has spent half a billion dollars developing the technology.
The projectiles travel at six times the speed of sound and a single shot can pierce three
concrete walls.
Who on earth would need all that fire power?
America of course.
1.
Total Inception • There are plenty of times sci-fi about
messing with people’s memories; Total Recall did it best when they inserted Arnie into
a false life.
• And now, neuroscientists have taken a little Total Recall and mashed it with some
Inception.
They implanted memories into mice while they were sleeping.
Double sci-fi penetration, boom!
Neuroscientists attached electrodes to the brains of the mice while they were exploring;
then when the mouse was asleep, his brain was forming new memories the scientists stimulated
the reward center of his brain.
That’s what kicks in when you get laid or eat something amazing.
• After the mice associated a particular place with the reward center of their brains,
they spent 5 times more time there than anywhere else in their maze.
So by manipulating their brain chemistry, they made the mice think they’d had an awesome
time somewhere that was really shitty.
One day those scientists will get bought and brainwash people into thinking they love the
dentist.
Those sick fucks.
When scientists have figured out how to do this with humans though, I’d like to please
forget there was ever a remake of Total Recall.
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