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Science fiction inspired most of Todays techno gadgets, long before the actual inventors created the devices often the device was discussed in great detail in the chronicles of a good book writer or on a television show.

The Automatic Door, Mobile Phone and Palm Top Personal Digital Assistants werew all things created in the mind on Gene Rodenberry. THE FLIP-PHONE: Gene Roddenberry et al.

The original, '60s Trek looks extremely dated today; although it's set hundreds of
years in the future, technology has caught up with it (and in some
cases surpassed it in ways that the creators could not have
anticipated). One thing that I find quite striking is the resemblance,
both in appearance and function, between the flip-open communicator
devices used by the crew of the Starship Enterprise and today's
wireless flip-phones.

When ”Star Trek: The Next Generation“ replaced the flip-style communicators with a ”com badge“ in the late 1980s, the future was again prefigured. Today, wireless LAN-based lapel communicators are commonly used in hospitals, offices and factory floors using voice over IP technologies.

Video over IP technologies has seen emergence of video phones and computers no can understand a degree of voice communication between the user and itself.

The Captains note pad in the original series also inspired a team of engineers at Apple to develop a device called an Apple Newton the worlds first palm top computer that recognized hand writing. The Newton is now dead in the water when many of its developers jumped ship to create its successor the Palm PC or PDA. This device has also evolved on to become integrated with a mobile phone communications device and is now called a smart phone.

If you know of any others I have not mentioned here please email me on questions@petersaville.net

# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 10:34 PM