From Sci Fi to modern tech we seen it time and time again .  From the imaginations of all those that bring us Sci Fi with futuristic technologies to realization of a scientist or a team of men and women working together to make what was once just words on a page , image in a magazine , or prop in a movie a reality.  When I come across articles such as these it reaffirms my belief that with out imagination and with out an outlet like Sci Fi . gadgets we use on a daily basis would never have come into being or at the very least would of been radically different then we are use to.

(Full article at Valpolife.com)

From Sci-Fi to Reality : Prosthetics

Earlier this year an exhibit demonstrated how the original Star Trek was a blueprint for today’s electronics. We have communicators (cellphones), tricorders (portable medical and environmental diagnostic tools) and ‘main screens’ (a plethora of projector and ever increasing flat panel televisions.) While we might not quite have warp engines and teleporters, it’s amazing to see how far technology had come to make science fiction science fact. One of these is the robotic limb. We’ve all see films where human and machine are melded with machine to improve their skills. Cyborgs like the Million Dollar Man have made us wonder what we are capable of using technology.