As the YouTube description says, “In 1980, the Star Trek Winnipeg organization produced their own public access show, discussing Star Trek and other science fiction.”
It’s like a pre-Internet vlog, discussing their fanzine and the other things that club does.
(via Tyler Shipley on Facebook)
Would you like to have a home computer that looks like the one from Star Trek? Of course you would — and this guy has coded up what looks like a skin for his operating system that does just that, based on the LCARS system from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Now, I happen to have a 17″ touchscreen that’s just waiting for me to do something with, and I think I may have found my something.
I hope this guy releases the source code.
This one’s for my friend Dallas.
(via MeFi, which puts it as “yesterday’s future … here today”)
It’s the NCC-1701. But it’s a pizza cutter. It’s like geek Nirvana. For a certain kind of geek.
It’s $25 from Thinkgeek, which is on the reasonable side for a piece of cool Star Trek-ery. But is pretty darn expensive for a pizza cutter.
I mean, really, how often do you use that tool? Not when you order, because restaurant pizza comes presliced.
And if you really need to cut up a home-made pizza, my suggestion is to use that pair of kitchen scissors that is sitting in your knife block. Seriously — way easier than a pizza cutter.
But you should still buy this for the kitsch.
It’s like Inception-level deep mashing-up-ness: This is a trailer for a book about a zombie attack at a Star Trek convention.
And it looks awesome. I know The Walking Dead starts at Halloween, but wouldn’t it be great to also have this as a series?
Dear Shatner yes! By all that is wonderful in the world, I love this hoodie.
It is $40 from Threadless, and was designed by Paulo Bruno.
Okay, “just around the corner” in geologic terms. Or, more appropriately, cosmological terms. A noted futurist, Michio Kaku, has released a book talking about how impossible-sounding technologies may be available for us to use in decades or a century — no more than a millennium, for sure.
His book, “Physics of the Impossible“, sounds pretty rad, but he also stopped by The Guardian for a Q&A podcast:
Some 80% of the technologies portrayed in science fiction like Star Trek and Star Wars – including force fields, teleportation, telekinesis, mind-reading and invisibility – will become possible within the next century …. Within centuries to millennia, even time travel, starships and “warp drive” may become possible, says Kaku.
“What we usually consider are impossible are simply engineering problems … there’s no law of physics preventing them.”
I’m jazzed by the possibilities here — and listen to the podcast, he’s pretty convincing. Kaku is an expert in string theory, and no matter what you think about string theory (I’m on the fence, yet) you have to be deadly-smart to understand or master it.
For people who think that Star Trek is too way out there to ever come true, just think about this: Cell phones today are already (in my opinion) better, smaller and more functional than the communicators in the original series. And your iphone? Well, that’s about 75% of a tricorder.
I’ve downloaded the podcast, actually, and uploaded it so you can listen to it here (It’s about 22 minutes long).
