Bad Physics in Movies: When Hollywood gets science wrong
It's a bird. It's a plane. No... it's Hollywood's bad physics.
Tag: Star Trek
Boeing develops force field reminiscent of Star Trek
Boeing, a major aircraft and military manufacturer, just secured a patent that describes a Star Trek-like force shield, meant to ...
Star Trek walking cane lends virtual touch to the blind
The walking cane has helped the blind navigate obstacles for thousands of years, and its design has remained largely unchanged ...
Sensitive robots to dramatically improve machine-assisted surgery
More than on one occasion, the Enterprise's chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy laments how barbaric surgeons of the XXth ...
Star Trek holodeck-like imaging offers a whole new perspective on virtual reality
Computer scientists at University of Illinois at Chicago have created what can only be described as a real-life Star Trek ...
NASA: ‘warp drive is plausible’ – experiments under way
We've seen a lot of concepts cross the realm of SciFi into reality, however transferring fabrics of imagination to practical applications which ...
Real-life, working Tricorder developed by Trekkie-scientist and made open source available
Sometime at the beginning of the year I mentioned in post that once stepping into the age of Terahertz electromagnetic ...
Warp drive of doom – scientists find faster than light travel would end in gamma-ray blast
Faster than light travel is not only an exciting SciFi concept which has spurred the imagination of countless geek generations ...