Can Science fiction ever get the Science right?

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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:37 pm

Inspector Gadget wrote:

Star Trek did invent the mobile phone.

I think Maxwell Smart had one before Star Trek.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArBEnKcoMw

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:15 pm

James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, which many a lad has chased around West Africa, had a built in mobile phone and satnav in 1964, which predates Get Smart's shoe phone. Smart had a nifty watch IIRC.

Startrek's medical bay also had pneumatic syringes. Recently I was somewhere where the sliding door went 'woosh' just like the ones on the Enterprise Smile

. I'd pay good money for a go on a holodeck, that should be almost doable by now.

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:26 am

Roycropper wrote:

I'd pay good money for a go on a holodeck, that should be almost doable by now.

There's about 5 different versions in development now. It's not to the extent of the star trek holodecks, but it's getting closer...
http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/introducing_the_real-life_holodeck

or if you don't want to wait, there is this:
http://www.dvice.com/2013-4-22/vr-helmet-plus-treadmill-peek-first-real-holodeck

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:42 am

^^ I'm not a Trekkie. But if a holodeck is this: Hologram Singer. Then it's here already.

Proper weird though. Confused

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:54 pm

I was always a fan of the original Star Trek but refused to watch the Next Generation as I found the whole concept Blasphemous. Now I did get over it but it was off the air before I watched a single episode. For the most part I enjoy all of the Spin Offs although Deep Sleep Nine was a bit of well a Yawn….

I remember watching the following Gem on a Black and White Viking TV (Complete with Bunny Ears) as a Youngster. I would really like to think this happened in Real Life because the Great Simmons can do anything can’t he?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaaS6WScGnY

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:39 am

It's the transporter that I want. For unruly clients.

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:05 am

Gerry Anderson was from the future. He had reusable space craft and STOVL before we did. Cool

And a permanently manned space station for good measure.

One thing we do need is, Lady Penelope's tea pot with built-in mobile phone.

Then I could talk to lads and have a cuppa at the same time.

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:35 am

^
The Tracy's, Brains, Lady Penelope and Parker - sounds like some good characters to bait lads with Smile

Has it been done already?

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:36 am

Captain Pugwash wrote:

One thing we do need is, Lady Penelope's tea pot with built-in mobile phone.

Then I could talk to lads and have a cuppa at the same time.

that's not a bad idea. And it can be done with today's tech... so what are you waiting for?! Get inventing! It could make you riches...

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:01 am

^ you'd be fine until the phone rings and you pour scalding hot tea in your ear.

On the sliding door front, Dr Who had them in an early episode on the Dalek home world. (Daleks of course led to the invention of the wheelie bin, just that the modern day version doesn't have such homicidal tendancies)

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