Fiction turned Reality?

1. The Mobile Phone

Invention credited to Martin Cooper of Motorola. He made the first-ever handheld mobile phone in 1973 called the Motorola DynaTac which weighed at 2 kgs. In an interview in 2015, Cooper mentioned that the inspiration for this creation to the Dic Tracy comics in which a character used a device called the ‘ wrist two-way radio ‘.

2. Holograms

In the 1977 Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi received a holographic message leading to the iconic scene, ‘Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.’ Recently at the Bringham Young University in Provo, Utah an electrical engineering professor and hologram expert Daniel Smalley and his group created something similar.

He said,’ It’s not a hologram. A 3D image that floats in the air, that you can walk all around and see from every angle, is called a volumetric image.’

His team has managed to create such 3D images which can float around in the air.

3. Digital Billboards

Andrew Phipps Newman the CEO and co-founder of the company DOOH Advertising assumed inspiration from the famous 1982 sci-if movie Blade Runner. In the movie was a scene when, while scanning the skyscrapers appeared a dynamic billboard on one of the buildings.

Newman’s company is created in 2013 has since been dedicated to this digital advertisement format of a billboard. DOOH (Digital Out-Of-Home) media is the term that refers to any digitized display advertising that appears in a public environment. This includes digital billboards, outdoor signage, and networked screens found in even businesses-oriented gatherings areas such as stadiums, malls, and hospitals.

4. ISS

In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, there has been a space station established on the lower earth orbit where astronauts could stay and research in microgravity. This was the inspiration that lead to the creation of the international space station in 1998.

5. Tablets

Also in 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman appeared using a sort of flat-screen computers for watching news updates and reading popular periodicals. This was the idea of Stanley Kubrick who called it the ‘Newspad’. He stated it was a device meant to access news related stories and such.