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    silentstriderm: Real holographic simulated evil Lincoln is back!!! more »
    gorehound: The Sex Room Will Not Be Telivised more »
    Boas_MC: This is seriously cool stuff. I love that folks are working on bringing more of our senses into media play. It'll be interesting to see how they event... more »
    JamalPullus: That pic is from Voyager's holodeck and not from the Enterprise. Thats Captain Gateway and the hologram Doctor from Voyager. more »
    evildead1971: ok, i'm setting my cryogenic tube for 1,000 years. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Oh come on! We know where this is going... SEX!!! BTW screw (figuratively) holograms!!!! Where's my sexbot? more »
    atrus123: Hopefully android technology will advance quicker than tactile holography technology, so that when Moriarty does show up, we'll be able to call upon C... more »
    Grey_Area: What? No Overdrawn at the Memory Bank!? Blasphemy! [www.imdb.com] Okay, just kidding. It was pure cheesetronium from 1983. But it was from a John Varl... more »
    bluehinter: Doctor Who came (debatably) pretty close to VR a couple of other times: The earliest I can think of was the Master Brain computer in the second Doctor... more »
    cynopt: Ah, naughtiness on the holodeck, one of the leading causes of slash-fiction on the internet. Reminds me of my favorite bit from Trekkies: "This IS cou... more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Flag! The penalty is on Graeme, Unnecessary Roughness... Jeff Fahey gains 10 yards, 1st down. more »
  • #holograms

    Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer

    Sure, the characters in the Enterprise's holodeck would occasionally try to kill you, but when they worked, the tactile holograms looked like incredible fun. Now researchers are getting closer, creating holograms that can be felt and respond to human touch. More »
  • #virtualworlds

    The 5 Science Fiction Tales That Made Us Love Virtual Reality

    For almost as long as there has been science fiction, there's been virtual reality, teaching us about worlds inside machines before we even knew what the internet was. Here are five of the earliest, and best, VR stories we grew up with. More »
  • #virtuality

    Ron Moore Drags Us Back To The Holodeck

  • #fengshui

    How To Improve Your Starship's Feng Shui

    When you're cruising across the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds and battling super-intelligent crystaline beings, the slightest mistake can spell disaster. So it's vital to have good feng shui on your starship's bridge. Just look at this flight deck from the movie Red Planet: cramped, ugly and angular, with no way for energy to "flow" around the space. We asked experts how to improve your starship's feng shui. Click through for tips, plus a gallery of command centers with good and bad feng shui. More »
  • #triviagasm

    A Brief History of Reality Distortion Fields, Starring Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs is the first non-science fiction character to possess a reality distortion field (RDF). Apple's MacWorld 2008 conference kicks off tomorrow with a keynote from Jobs, which leaves gadget lovers and iPod fiends white-knuckled on Tuesday morning as news of the next "insanely great" thing trickles out of Moscone Center in San Francisco. Why does this speech cause such furor (and fury) every year? RDF, of course. We've got the scoop on how Jobs came to posses the RDF, and we've got four other famous RDFs from science fiction for you to contemplate as you await the mind-control ray that will emanate from MacWorld tomorrow. More »