Tag: Star Trek

One of these things is not like the other…

From the CBC: James Doohan’s ashes headed for orbit Plans are on schedule for the remains of Star Trek actor James Doohan to head to a final frontier on Saturday. The Vancouver-born actor’s ashes are to be launched into suborbital space on a rocket launched from a private desert spaceport near Upham, N.M.So which is …

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Science fiction headline of the day:

“Star Trek shields will protect man in space.” From the TimesOnline story: “It’s no accident that Star Trek featured this sort of technology, as it had advisers who work for Nasa and it’s feasible,” Dr Bamford said. “The shields seem to be some sort of invisible barrier, which energy bounces off, and that sort of …

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Decisions, decisions

Life is one long series of decisions. Today, for instance, I had to decide on a topic for this column—and decided to write about the science of making decisions. Despite what we’d like to think, research continues to show that rational thinking often has little to do with our decision-making process. As Jerry Adler pointed …

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Hard on the heels of my column about ray guns…

…comes this story, headlined “Star Trek-like ‘Tricorder’ becomes science fact”: A press release at Purdue University has unveiled the startling news that a portable sensing system to analyze chemical components is now a reality. About the size of a large car battery, the unit is, at less than 20 pounds, much smaller than the refrigerator …

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"Bones" McCoy, call your office:

Your hand-held miniaturized rapid-acting virus detector is ready. And it doesn’t look a thing like a salt shaker.

Yes, it’s a silly way to spend $15,000…

…but if you don’t think this Star Trek-themed home theatre is cool, you have no poetry in your soul. Uh-oh, did I just let my inner geek out in public again? Darn.

Star Trek tech

“Like something out of Star Trek” has become a catch-phrase for all things high-tech. But as Erik Baard points out in articles recently posted to Wired Online, we live in such a high-tech age that the Star Trek future is beginning to look more like last Thursday. As Baard notes, fans have wondered for decades …

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