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Virtual iPhone Phrasebook Brings Us Closer to the ‘Babel Fish’ | Epicenter | Wired.comIn Douglas Adams’ best-selling novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a space traveler can stick the Babel fish right into his ear, making it so he could understand speakers in any language. Emirates Airlines’ iLingual iPhone app doesn’t realize his dream, but it’s a step in the right direction....
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Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 171 | Gallifreyan EmbassyLive show reviewing The Waters of Mars with live feedback, Dave AC's birthday and Doctor Who's 46th Anniversary, and more. Hosted by Louis Trapani, Ken Deep, and Dave Cooper.
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Episode 7 of Hitchhiker's Guide to British Sci-Fi | Art Trap ProductionsWe look at the new The Prisoner (2009) series re-imagined, Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Paradox, and more.
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Doctor Who on Holiday | Gallifreyan EmbassyThe 10th Doctor (David Tennant) looks like he is ready for a holiday in a photograph included in an article by The Press Association
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Preview the 'Inside the TARDIS' Special Coming to BBC America (Video) | Gallifreyan EmbassyBBC America airs a special catch-up special before The Waters of Mars
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The 15 Coolest Weapons Born From Sci-Fi CinemaThe 15 Coolest Weapons Born From Sci-Fi Cinema November 17 2009 While spending most of the past weekend sick in bed, I took in my daily dose of fluids, vitamins and viewings of various DVDs I have here at the house. My usual comedic selections weren't doing it for me and instead I began to ...
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Mad scientists blame time travelers for collider failure | DVICEIt was weird enough that scientists said a bird dropping a piece of bread on an electrical substation managed to shut down power to the Large Hadron Collider. Now two respected physicists are blaming that incident on a time-traveling bird, sabotaging the collider's mission of finding the Higgs ...
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What would George Orwell think of Google Dashboard? | DVICEThanks to Google, most people know who Eric Arthur Blair is. Doesn't ring a bell? You might know him better by his pen name, George Orwell. You know — 1984, Animal Farm? The question is, if he were alive today, what would he think of Google, and its power to spread information — sometimes very ...
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Sci-fi illustrations by Shusei Nagaoka ::: Pink TentacleIn the 1970s and 1980s, the sci-fi art of Japanese illustrator Shusei Nagaoka graced numerous album covers and appeared in a variety of advertisements, magazines, and movie posters. Here is a small sample of his fantastic work.
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4 reasons why V's motherships don't make sense | DVICE4 reasons why V's motherships don't make sense So ABC's V is here (episode 2 airs tonight), reminding us for the zillionth time that gigantic, mile(s)-wide flying saucers are THE conveyance of choice for any kind of alien visitors. (See: District 9, Independence Day, the original V, Alien ...
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