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You thought your Bluetooth headset gave you that certain je ne sais quoi cyberlook — perhaps like Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation after assimilation by the Borg.

There aren’t very many games today that, graphically, give one goose bumps. While movies like James Cameron’s Avatar or Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings have graphical effects that appear absolutely real, many wonder if games will ever achieve that level of detail.

What does open source software have in common with manufactured parts? Both involve a growing movement of “do it yourself” (DIY) packaging and distribution that follows the open source model of the free Linux operating system (OS).

The cool technological future. Transporters, replicators, universal communicators, radical life extension, and — of course — flying cars.

Mathematician and SF writer Vernor Vinge has a thing for contact lenses.

Supercomputing is the engine that drives our science, commerce, and communication. Giant search engines trawl the net with billions of queries, molecules are modeled and modified in massive simulations, and deep under Wall Street hulking processors trade massive blocks of money at the speed of light.

BowGo’s pogo stick –- patented by Carnegie Mellon and based on technology developed for robotic legs –- is likely to dominate Pogopalooza, the annual gathering of the best extreme pogo athletes in the world.

An accident has happened to you and your spouse. Your spouse is complaining that he or she has severe abdominal and head pain.

Wave your hand and the Rolex materializes on your arm like so much smoke. And then… poof… it’s gone.

Sure, it holds 500 gigs of movies, music, and data, but the demands of modern computing are starting to make that spinning silver-platter in your typical hard-drive look downright antiquated.