How close are we to achieving Star Trek technology?

[Jeff T]

How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?

"So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies."

http://gizmodo.com/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-starship-enterprise-506174071

Note: this speculation is based on the "Alternate Reality"ship not the original NCC 1701

[Kheren]

Note: this speculation is based on the "Alternate Reality"ship not the original NCC 1701

You mean the 800+ meters monster of the first (Jar Jar Abrams) movie?(yeah according to Orci & Kurtzman, this is the true size of the Constitution class so as to explain away the titanic shuttlebay we see in the movie; of course it's not a gross scaling blunder of the FX team; Kirk's ship is really larger than the 24th century Sovereign and Galaxy classes!)

Yeah bet it would cost extra compared to Kirk's original 300 or so meters (Roddenberry) Enterprise... which btw is the one shown on the picture in its refit (ST TMP) version

[Jeff T]

Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work

http://www.technewsdaily.com/18051-star-trek-warp-drive-possible.html?cmpid=492405

[Jeff T]

One step closer to teleportation

A team of University of Queensland physicists has transmitted an atom from one location to another inside an electronic chip. 

Continue reading about this here... http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20131209-24789.html

[Jeff T]

'Star Trek' Tricorder Becomes Reality

"Decades after "Star Trek" made famous the small scanning device that could read your vital signs, the medical tricorder is now ready for prime time. The Scanadu can take everything from your heart rate to your blood pressure to your temperature in just 10 seconds. CNET's Kara Tsuboi shows us how it works and why the creator wanted to put medicine into the hands of patients."

http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50151130.html

Notice that McCoy is scanning Khan.... Don't wake him up Bones... things will go very bad... including adding something else for Jar Jar to ruin!

[Jeff T]

"Classic Star Trek contributed more to the modern world than phrases like "Beam me up, Scotty!" Many of the devices we saw decades ago are now available for use in the real world; we thank the engineers who made real these ten Star Trek technologies." - Bill Christensen, Technovelgy.com


Here is another  Top 10 Star Trek Technologies from Space.com

http://www.space.com/9705-top-10-star-trek-technologies.html

Enjoy!

[Jeff T]

Not exactly technology per se....

Anyway.... I meant to post this on the first day of the month:

"Many a Star Trek fan has marveled at their friends who seem to speak Klingon as fluently as they speak English, German, Italian, French or whatever their native language is. Well, the time has almost come for everyone and anyone on our Big Blue Marble to speak flawless Klingon. How? Easy, with an assist from the comprehensive Learn to Speak Klingon course from Rosetta Stone."

http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-rosetta-stone-learn-to-speak-klingon

[Storm Windfall]

We missed April Fool's Day? Oi!

[BLZBUB]

 It's still April ... and we're all fools ... so ...

[Jeff T]

Well... speaking of tomorrow's news today.... Microsoft debuts real Star Trek universal translator at conference.
(May 28, 2014)

This could be the closest thing to the Universal Translator in "Star Trek": a real-time video translation service for Microsoft's Skype.

Microsoft demonstrated the potential of its "Skype Translator" service at the inaugural Code Conference in California and included a clip from the TOS episode Metamorphosis, which prominently featured the device.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/363029/scitech/technology/microsoft-debuts-real-star-trek-universal-translator-at-conference


The impact and inspiration of Star Trek continues to bring us these amazing accomplishments.