Science fiction does a good job in imagining what the future could look like. But what's even cooler is when science fiction inspires real-life inventions that do the things we only thought existed in movies and books. Check it out below:
Invisibility coats.
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The first sci-fi movie in 1902 France featured astronauts visitng the moon.
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Instant frozen food? Common today, magic a hundred years ago.
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Flying cars - things you saw in The Jetsons, but Terrafugia's TF-X is making that a reality.
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Shark repellant - there's such a thing. Scientists have created a device that uses magnetism to overwhelm some of the shark's sensors that will send them swimming away.
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Star Trek's communicator - we call it a smartphone these days.
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Dog thoughts-to-speech - a headset called No More Woof uses a dog's brainwaves to tell you what they are thinking. Not sure how accurate this is.
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Video chatting - unheard of 70 years ago. Before it was created of course.
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Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was written in 1869, before submarines were made real.
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Mosquito drones are real. They look like the real thing and can even inject you with poison.
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Holograms - we're closer to this than ever. Now we even have holographic displays on some cars and we're bringing back dead artists with this tech.
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Replicators - now called 3D printers. You can pretty much make anything you want. Probably more in the future too.
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Supervirus - There is such a thing and we should all be afraid of it. It can be created in a lab.
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Smartwatches - James Bond won't be the only one donning devices like these anymore.
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Self-cleaning doors. Doorknobs are truly one of the dirties places in the house. Now there are self-sterilizing door handles which use UV light to kill off germs.
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Facial recognition - As seen in countless movies, now some police departments are using this tech to identify people.
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Curing blindness (sort of.) Star Trek's Geordi La Forge's Visor on the show allowed him to see. Today, there are retinal implants that could do the same.
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Wiping your memory - in Men in Black, they used the Neuralyzer to erase a recent memory. Scientists today are testing a drug which can block an enzyme in your brain for memory retention.
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Self-tying shoes. Nike is making them this year. Marty McFly won't be the only one anymore.
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Hoverbike - seen in Star Wars, there's now a hoverbike in the works which could be ready by 2017 and made by Aerofex.
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Killer robots - Killer robots are always in sci-fi movies. Now the U.S. military has created a mini-tank robot that can be outfitted with weapons.
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