- 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.
- 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.
- 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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