With the remake of Star Trek is out in theaters; The Guardian online looked into how much of the technology in Star Trek is used in real life.
Today's equivalent of the Star Trek communicator is a flip-up mobile phone.
Kirk signs his daily captain's log on an electronic notepad like a PDA.
The bridge of the Starship Enterprise could only be seen on the view-screen. Today we have flat screen tv's
Uhura had an earpiece. Today we have bluetooth.
The weapon was a hand-held phaser. Today we have a Taser.
Officers checked new environments with tricorders. Today, many HAZMA emergency response teams use chemical detection equipment.
Video-conferences. Today we have it on a bigger scale.
Motion detector doors. Today, we have automatic doors in many places.
Hypospray devices were used to pass medicine through skin without being painful. Today, we have Jet injectors.
Transporters do not exist yet but they might do in the next 300 years. Physicist Dr.Ping Koy Lam and student Warwick Bowen have looked at teleporting test equipment . They had a sucessful test using a laser beam of light disembodied in one location and rebuilt 1 meter away in a second.
Information and Images
from:http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2009/may/15/star-trek-technology?picture=347310020
No comments:
Post a Comment