Star Trek Tech That Exists Today

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When Star Trek hit the air waves, talking computers were just a pipe dream. While teleportation remains elusive, several once-fictional technologies are changing the way people live and work. Here are some ways in which we're approaching the gizmos that Star Trek demonstrated (http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Star-Trek-Tech-that-Exists-Today/ba-p/7124). Speech recognition? Check. Holodeck? Sort of. Replicator? Workin' on it."

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/2037215/star-trek-tech-that-exists-today