iPad or PADD ?
With the recent burst of enthusiasm for the iPad it suddenly occurred to me that I’d seen it all before.
Just seems remarkably similar to the PADD – Personal Access Display Device that I’d seen in the mid 1990′s (or more accurately that hails from the year 2374) as seen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD
Different versions of the PADD were available depending on your species, Klingon and Cardassian, for example, often being more angular than the Federation ones, and consisted of a large touchscreen area for entering or reading data.
How long will it be before we see the Apple iTransporter and iReplicator ?
Footnote:
Science Fact or Fiction
Replicator ?
check out the Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or EBF3150, from NASA
… creates parts for airplanes — not food and drink — and uses an environmentally-friendly construction process to manufacture layered metal objects. This technique could revolutionize the aviation industry and may have applications for the future spacecraft and the medical community as well. It can be used to make small, detailed parts or large structural pieces of airplanes.
check out the video from the NASA link at
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/electron_beam.htm#
Transporter ?
As it happens, I noted an (old) article in the UK Newspaper – The Independent – which describes potentially the first breakthrough using the revolutionary technology of Quantum Teleportation.
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