SF Gizmos & Gadgets

welcome to the future Or, all the futuristic stuff I've always dreamed of owning. And who hasn't dreamed of owning items we see in a movie, or on TV. I remember my friend Linda and I desperately wanting to join the USS Enterprise so we could each have a phaser, not realising till much later on, that this meant we might end up being an Infamous Red Shirt — usually the first characters to get shot at or die a grisly death in nearly every episode of Trek! But that didn't stop us dreaming or pretending during lunch break that our bananas were communicators. Flipping them open, and then, talking to them. No wonder I was considered a weird kid at school. It didn't stop with Trek, I lusted after the tech in most SF TV shows I’ve watched over the years. From light sabres to magnetic boots, to the TARDIS and Firefly's 'Serenity'. I wanted it all and, when I found out I needed H. G. Wells' Time Machine to travel into the future, I started creating my own fictitious hardware and tech by writing…