Cool site that has searchable lists of science fiction inventions. The funniest bits have to be the corny sounding names of some of them. It must be a regrettable and completely unavoidable fact that any thing you invent as a scifi author will sound tacky in 20 years time. Perhaps people will be laughing at laptop or iPod in 20 years time too.
Technovelgy.com: Inventions from Science Fiction Books and Movies
February 24th, 2004 at 3:21 am
What, you think something called a Pocket Nucleo-Bulb sounds corny? okay, maybe a little
It could be worse; we could still be calling it Scientifiction - that was what Hugo Gernsbeck called it. Now, that’s corny.