Examining the 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this handbook peers through the lens of today s science, looking at which ones have become reality and how they work, and which are still in the imagined future will we ever get to ride our jetpacks ? From prototype to realization, the technological evolution of each inventionsuch asthe Star Trek communicator, which has become today s cell phone; the robot pets of Dr. Who;
Vanilla Sky’s cryonics; and even Sleeper s orgasmatronis charted in thisveritable history of the future.