As a teenager he devoured popular science fiction books like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Ender's Game, " and always had a wild imagination.
If this is the first commercial implementation of graphene, we're not going to grumble, even if it's not the science fiction-like super product we'd been hoping for.
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LOVEFiLM will also bring popular NBCU science fiction dramas like the smash hit Heroes, in addition to David Hasselhoff's ultimate '80s cult TV classic Knight Rider, to its members.
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Humans may never have the ability to change into the Incredible Hulk when angry, but donning one of these may soon make the robotic gear in scenes from Alien and Iron Man seem less like science fiction fantasy and more like a new world of enhanced abilities for everyone.
It is the next few steps in the process that sound like science fiction.
After all we are talking about the humanization of gizmos, and that does feel a bit like science fiction.
That may seem like science fiction to many, and private companies don't usually talk down the promise of their products.
If some of this sounds like science fiction, so did manned lunar vehicles in 1950, or self-driving cars in 2000.
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Companies had explored similar technology for controlling video games, but building hardware controlled by brain waves still seemed like science fiction.
"You'll know it when you see it, " Lamia said about what felt futuristic enough without being too much like science fiction.
The future looks a lot more like science fiction in health care than in any other part of our daily lives.
He's hoping the upcoming Fringe, an X-Files-like science fiction drama from Lost creator JJ Abrams, will prove a push in that direction.
Some of this stuff may sound like science fiction to you.
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Though it may sound like science fiction, a renowned South Korean robotics expert believes he has developed the first generation of technology to give robots human-like qualities.
The events above sound like science fiction, but they're not.
These scenes may sound like science fiction, but with the right investments and strategies today, most of them can and will be available in the next few years from the companies that focus on innovative ways to use technology and data analytics to deliver personalized solutions.
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Directed energy has long been considered science fiction (and frankly some of the real world programs should have stayed in science fiction), but it looks like this is the generation where we will finally see it be used on the battlefield.
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It sounds like this science fiction is going to cost some people plenty of hard cash.
It may seem like science-fiction, but armies of remote-controlled bots are a reality.
Will it be able to compete with other science fiction third-person shooters like Dead Space and Mass Effect or the upcoming Star Wars: 1313?
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The former, an X-Files-like science-fiction drama from Lost creator J.
Well-meaning folks just trying to give their kids a head start in life routinely get taken to the woodshed for giving their children synthetic monikers that make them sound like science-fiction characters, perhaps the slimy progeny of unscrupulous succubi.
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"It was really like those science-fiction movies, " he said.
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But, like the best science fiction, Minority Report didn't shy away from tackling big ideas, and it had as much to say about our present condition as it did about the future.
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They might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at their most basic level these medical micro-robots are man-made protein "machines" that produce movement through chemical reactions.
The ability of a device to read both gestures and speech seemed like something out of science fiction, and the possibilities one could imagine with such a device were limitless.
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That is hardly surprising because the glasses seem like something out of a science-fiction novel.
Perhaps a book that seems like a young-adult science-fiction title but it happens to have an extremely graphic sex scene buried somewhere in the middle.
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