Tech in Sci-Fi
In Star Wars, this fictional energy sword is weilded primarily by the Jedi.
What is a lightsaber?
Nintendo's Mario made his first appearance in this 1981 platformer arcade game.
What is Donkey Kong?
This 1995 feature film was the first full-CGI movie produced by Pixar.
What is Toy Story?
This 2008 Pixar film follows a solitary robot deserted on Earth to clean up garbage.
What is WALL-E?
These portable devices became popular in the late 2000s, offering internet connection from anywhere and can even still make phone calls.
What are smartphones?
When it came to teleportation, "Beam me up, Scotty" was used regularly in the first series of this franchise.
What is Star Trek?
After a failed joint venture to release a console with a CD system, this next generation console became one of the rivals for the Nintendo 64.
What is the Sony Playstation?
This 2001, fully CGI film was the first to win an Academy Award and features a green ogre.
What is Shrek?
The 2001: A Space Oddessy film features this fictional artifical intelligence saying, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Who is HAL 9000?
These devices allow you to read books without using any paper.
What are eReaders?
"Doc" Brown selected this unique car to customize and make a time-machine out of for the film series "Back To The Future".
What is a DeLorean?
Within hours of this 1993 PC game's release, University networks began banning it due the taxing networks due to the multiplayer feature.
What is Doom?
This fictional motorcycle exists within the world of TRON and is fully CGI.
What is a Light Cycle?
In the film Terminator 2, this model of the terminator can transform via liquid metal.
What is the T-1000?
These devices became popular in the 2010s in "Makers Spaces" and can create objects with iterative layers of material.
What are 3D Printers?
This 1999 film featured a new filming technique called "bullet-time" simulating a frozen moment at numerous angles.
What is The Matrix?
Considered the first 3D game, this 1973 game led multiplayers down numerous twists and turns to find each other.
What is Maze War?
In this 1958 Alfred Hitchcock feature, the title sequence was considered one of the first uses of CGI in film.
What is Vertigo?
In the Blade Runner film, this is the name for synthetic humans.
What are Replicants?
Invented in it's current form in 2013, these devices serve as a self-balancing personal transporter, albeit they still have wheels.
What are hooverboards?
This 2013 film co-produced by Spike Jones features a man who develops a relationship with an artificially intelligent virtual assistant.
What is "Her"?
This term is used to describe players who strive to complete games as fast as possible.
What is speedrunning?
In 1994, this fully CGI television series follows the adventures of characters protecting the computer world of Mainframe.
What is Reboot?
An abridged version of this term was popularized by George Lucas in the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction.
What is Android (or Droid)?
This technology superimposes computer-generated images over the user's view of the real world.
What is Augmented Reality (AR)?