Category: Science Fiction
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Part of the “keyboard” from the briefcase computer has been identified. Many of the keys come from a Remington “Super Riter” typewriter; a dirt cheap copy of which was located on ebay. It appears that the larger right-hand component is likely a simple box made to order for the prop, with keys from the typewriter…
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Thanks to commenter “Mr_Hiena: ” the phone component of the “laptop” appears to be a Bogen TQ12a intercom: Fortunately there were (“were“) two of these on eBay. The two were identical to each other, but *not* to the unit shown above; the unit above, and the one in the “laptop,” have little tabs on…
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I would love to have a replica of the briefcase “laptop” that was built for “2001: A Space Odyssey.” I don’t know that I’ll have the time or the funds to actually see that happen myself, but I’d love to see *someone* pull it off. Maybe figuring out what the source of the various bits…
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A Russian movie from 2022 seems to have had some good VFX depicting a series of relatively small asteroid impacts shotgun-blasting a city: On the one hand, you can say that the Russian VFX people are quite good. on the other, you can point out that in 2022, Russians got a lot of practice with…
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Asking for a friend. Technology for the wrong cause pic.twitter.com/VrzQlhSszR — Clement Ben IFS (@ben_ifs) March 26, 2023
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Season three of “Star Trek Picard” has been an astonishing breath of fresh “Star Trek.” After four dismal years of “Discovery” insulting the fandom and crapping on the legacy, and two hideous seasons of “Picard” that took a steamer on the character of “Picard,” season three, under new management, has really turned things around. And…
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After watching these videos, I’m glad I passed on buying into the Mars Industries 1/18 scale “Airwolf” kit. There are a lot of problems with it. A *lot* of problems. There are design issues, uncured resin, quality control issues and, most shocking to me, problems with the vac-formed transparencies. The problem with *those* was that…
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At last, my collection of “Tom Swift Jr.” novels is complete. Since I’m a miser/dirt poor, I was only willing to spend a pittance for each book, but if you wait long enough pretty much everything shows up on ebay. Woo. And because why not, here’s the next shelf over: On a…
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This is a “cut scene” from a video game (“Star Wars: Squadrons”) and is a few years old… but it’s the best official non-“Rogue One” Star Wars that has come out since Disney bought the franchise.
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