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    Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    One item that has blown you away.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Ghostbusters proton pack... since it's Halloween

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Hmmmm, so many to choose from :

    H.A.L. from 2001.
    HG Wells' Time Machine.
    StarTrek comms badges (Bluetooth ?)
    Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet
    Daleks, TARDIS - Dr Who
    The Interocitor, This Island Earth
    GORT, Day the Earth Stood Still (original not that naff rework)
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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Forget light-sabers, Schwartz from Spaceballs takes the cake.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    THE HUD screen used by many films, but in particular Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

    It's not just how cool it looks.. it's the fact that I WANT ONE!!

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    I love teleportation systems from Star Trek.
    Imagine not being stuck in the queue every morning!

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Quote Originally Posted by MDK View Post
    I love teleportation systems from Star Trek.
    Imagine not being stuck in the queue every morning!
    Imagine being stuck in a queue to use the teleporter!

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    The whole light sabre/helmet setup in the original Star Wars when Luke first started his Jedi training on the Millennium Falcon - or the tech used to create the monster chess board in the same movie. For the 1970's, that was still totally mind blowing - and not a lot since has really out done it.

    That, and the hoverboards in Back to the Future... even as an over-the-hill adult, I still want one.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    It has to be from "the 6th Day", the virtual headset that his mate has.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Definitely the food replicators from star trek.
    Those teleporters aren't really teleporting you, they are doing a copy/paste and then deleting the original from the buffer!

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    The warp engine from Star Trek, jump gates from Babylon 5 and others, or the stargate network from the same named movie and TV shows.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    A Shotgun with unlimited ammo without reloading - many films.

    Zombies are never far away >.>

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    As the TARDIS has already been suggested, I'm going to go with a cheap way to get around it - Bill & Ted's phonebox.

    Also, it just occurred to me that Mission: Impossible predicted Google Glass.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Shadow Battlecrab from Babylon 5 (okay was not in a B5 movie). Supposedly dark and evil, it is beautifully elegant, efficient, organic technology which does make me wonder why choose a human as its CPU. ;-)

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Sonic screwdriver from Dr.Who, what pickle can't it get him out off.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What is your coolest technology from the films?

    Quote Originally Posted by GrahamC View Post
    Sonic screwdriver from Dr.Who, what pickle can't it get him out off.
    Awaits the day when a certain fruit company release a 'magical' iScrewdriver. ;-)

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