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Photos: Life imitates Star Trek

by | 10-05-06

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The Communicator

Fans of Star Trek in the 1960s were dying for the show's future to become real. Apparently many of today's engineers and designers felt the same way. Forty years later, a trip through an electronics store turns up a surprising amount of Trek-inspired gear. Is life imitating Star Trek or was Gene Roddenberry's creation oddly prescient? CNET went to the set of "Star Trek: New Voyages" to get an up-close comparison. Take a look and decide for yourself.

The Motorola Razr (top) is a perfect example. You can carry it on a belt or in a pocket, flip it open and talk wirelessly with people far, far away.

It works an awful lot like Kirk's Communicator.

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More technology imitations...gparsons611@... | 10/06/06

Regarding the TransporterYour Mom 2.0 | 10/06/06

More replication than transportxLoggr | 10/06/06

Good TimingYour Mom 2.0 | 10/09/06

Actually, ...JackOfAllTech | 09/09/08

LikeTonytheTiger | 09/10/08

Right.TonytheTiger | 09/10/08

Regarding transporter mythtroym@... | 10/10/06

Too cost prohibitivesenaa@... | 10/12/06

And why would that be bad?kschmidt@... | 07/13/07

RE Transporter Technologyrichardlees1960@... | 10/11/06

Scientists teleport two different objects Oct 5help@... | 10/19/06

Regarding the transporterneale.foulds@... | 07/13/07

MORE TECNOLOGY IMITATIONS...NEES | 10/06/06

Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact--an old truismsenaa@... | 10/12/06

Clockwork Orange "Crappy"??WKL | 10/20/06

another book to look intojeasterlingtech@... | 07/13/07

Others to add.Geoffrey.Gerlach@... | 10/06/06

Life imitates TrekJaytmoon | 10/06/06

Guys, and Ladies,Old Guy | 10/06/06

Famous Quote: "Start Trek is the mother of invention"James Brown | 10/06/06

Roddenberry???Ken Cox | 10/06/06

Just spotted this on Yahoopgkoko@... | 10/06/06

oh no!! the borgtechr@... | 10/06/06

needle free injectionstechr@... | 10/06/06

needle free injection PROBLEMSrichn@... | 10/08/06

RE: problemstechr@... | 10/09/06

Needleless injections actually started much earlier...senaa@... | 10/12/06

Star Trek lives on, Yeah, of course!Wayfarer | 10/07/06

Art imitates life? - Nahh Geeks ruletygerflower | 10/07/06

Borg as in...tkeller@... | 09/10/08

Robert Heinlein was just as visionarySensei Humor | 10/13/06

Gene Roddenberry..Keen Observermail@... | 10/15/06

All is SFCimmaron | 10/18/06

which is whytygerflower | 10/19/06

RE: (Photos: Life imitates Star Trek)ksbubbs@... | 07/13/07

RE: (Photos: Life imitates Star Trek)kevg | 07/13/07

RE: (Photos: Life imitates Star Trek)kschmidt@... | 07/13/07

What about the automatic sliding doors?jprice@... | 09/12/08

Wow. Commendations to you all...tkeller@... | 09/10/08

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