- [Narrator] As technology
continues to progress
at an astonishing rate,
we're beginning to achieve things
that have previously only existed
in the imaginations of
science fiction writers.
Here are 10 things that you can find
in the real world right now,
instead of having to watch Star Wars,
or Star Trek, or star anything.
- Amazing!
- [Narrator] Number 10, robot snipers.
If you're into video games at all,
then at some point, you surely encountered
an automated sentry turret.
Unlike another player, it doesn't
have to worry about aim, reaction time,
or anything like that,
only pure death on sight.
If you've always wanted to experience
this sort of fun in real life,
just take a trip to the Gaza strip,
where the Israeli Defense Force,
is working toward making this a reality.
Parts of the controversial area,
are patrolled by remote controlled,
.5 caliber machine guns,
that detect intruders via
ground sensors and drones.
Pillboxes containing the guns,
are interspersed every
several hundred meters.
Currently, a human being
is still in the loop,
a soldier back in command,
must authorize the gun to fire.
Although he isn't responsible for aiming,
detecting, or anything else.
However, they are working towards
cutting off humans entirely,
and making them fully autonomous.
Number nine, self-steering bullets.
Bullets are a pretty effective
way of killing someone,
but there's always the problem
of actually having to hit them.
Bullets have had basically
the same technology,
for practically a century,
but DARPA is looking to change that.
Since we're going to have
self driving cars here pretty soon,
why not some self driving bullets?
DARPA's EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance,
or EXACTO bullet, can
course correct itself
after it's been fired.
Because the weapon is topic
secret, classified information,
nobody knows exactly how
the bullet actually works,
but Sandia National Labs, has a similar
self guiding bullet, that
makes use of tiny fins,
and others speculate that the bullet
has some way of altering
its center of mass.
Elsewhere, a Texas based
startup called Tracking Point,
is developing a scope,
capable of enabling anyone
to accurately hit targets,
up to 1400 hundred yards away.
This is done with their
precision guided system,
which includes a network tracking scope.
It is able to track a target,
calculate range, and a ballistic solution
depending on wind speed,
the dropping of the bullet due to gravity,
and other factors.
It places a crosshair into the scope,
and shoots as soon as you
line it up on the target.
This eliminates the
threat of timing errors,
and prevents trigger squeeze
from messing up the shot.
It's pretty much aimbot in real life.
Number eight, tractor beams.
What spacey science fiction movie,
is truly complete
without the tractor beam.
An invisible arm of some kind,
that can be turned on
with a flip of a switch,
and pull in our unwilling main characters,
and it wasn't invented by George Lucas.
Fictional villains have
been using these things,
since the campy space
adventure books of the 1930's.
The reason for this, is that scientists
have known for a long time,
that light really does emit pressure,
and that it can move small particles.
NASA is currently researching
three different possible methods.
One that would be a
sort of light tweezers.
Grabbing the object from either side.
A spiraling tunnel of laser waves,
and a Bessel Beam,
which is so advanced, that
it can't even be explained
with a physical metaphor.
Currently, NASA can only
move microscopic particles
with these tractor beams,
but it's a tractor beam nonetheless,
and by 2050, they'll likely be pulling in
enemy alien spaceships.
Number seven, freeze ray.
Mr Freeze, Frozone and Mei,
would truly be proud of
the German scientists,
who by aiming lasers
at high pressured gas,
were able to lower temperatures,
by 119 degrees, in only a few seconds.
Taking humanity's first and giant step,
towards creating a freeze ray.
And it's not something that can just be
performed in a lab,
under certain conditions.
A research team in Berlin,
actually managed to use the technology
to create clouds in the sky,
by rapidly cooling down water vapor.
Scientists make claim
that the intended use
of this technology,
would be to create clouds
for farmers, whose crops
are in need of rain,
but everyone knows that their real,
secret goal, is to be able to people
into blocks of ice, with
the push of a button,
and become supervillains,
who make lots of bad,
cold related puns.
Number six, infantry robots.
Science fiction has long predicted,
that eventually war
isn't going to be about
people fighting people,
but about robots fighting people,
but how close are we to moving
away from Stormtroopers,
and finally getting into battle droids.
Possibly closer than you might think,
the US military's Modular
Advanced Armed Robotic System,
or MAARS, is a robot
designed for reconnaissance,
surveillance, and target acquisition.
The 370 pound robot,
can be equipped with an M240B machine gun,
with 450 rounds of ammo,
as well as 4 M203 grenade launcher tube.
The MAARS can travel at
seven miles per hour,
about human jogging speed,
and be up to 1000 meters away
from its human controller.
Needless to say, most people
would rather be the person
pushing the MAARS joystick,
than have to go kick
down a terrorist door,
the old fashioned way.
Number five, a heat ray.
For science fiction scenarios,
when shooting someone just
isn't going to cut it,
a heat ray is great way
of letting everyone know,
you mean business, by
melting their face off,
or maybe we're just setting them on fire.
For all your long range heating needs,
look no further than the
active denial system,
or ADS, the US military created ADS,
for area denial, for revenuer security,
and crowd control, so non lethal task,
rather than face melting,
but impressive nonetheless.
The weapon works by
shooting 95 gigahertz waves
at the target, which doesn't
sound too threatening,
until you realize that a microwave oven,
is only 2.45 gigahertz,
and can still make stuff painful,
to put it in your mouth.
The ADS, excites water and fat molecules,
under people's skin,
causing them to experience intense heat.
A test subject, describes his experience
with getting hit with the beam like this,
"For the first millisecond,
it just felt like the skin was warming up.
Then it got warmer and warmer
and you felt like it was on fire.
As soon as you're away from the beam
your skin returns to normal
and there is no pain."
Number four, shockwave cannon.
If a heat ray, seems
too overtly villainous,
for your non lethal crowd control needs,
perhaps you would be better off
trying the aptly named Thunder Generator.
Originally used by Israeli farmers
to scare birds away,
because apparently scarecrows
weren't cutting it,
the Israeli military realized
the technology's broader potential.
Igor Friedman, the
president of the company
that created the system,
says that anyone within 30 to 50 meters
from the cannon, will
feel like he's standing
in front of a firing squad,
but won't be hurled to the ground.
He'll be able to run away unharmed.
The cannon creates
these non lethal blasts,
by pumping a mixture
of liquified petroleum,
cooking gas and air through the barrel,
where they detonate.
Ultimately creating a series
of high velocity shock bursts.
Number three, a sound gun.
The long range acoustic device,
or LRAD, is a weapon system,
that finally brings the powers
of a whole myriad of super heroes,
as well as Overwatch's
Lucio, into reality.
LRAD fires narrow beams of sound,
that can be heard by the naked ear
a thousand feet away.
Plenty of distance to
warn possible intruders,
that they should stay away
before you unleash your
futuristic technology on them.
Because at full power,
LRAD can also create sounds
so loud, that anyone hearing it,
will be forced to run away.
The sound is so concentrated however,
that those LRAD, wouldn't
be affected themselves.
The system has been used to repel pirates,
of the northeast coast of Somalia,
and to tear protestors at the
2009 G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Number two, laser cannon.
In a lot of science fiction,
bullets are nowhere to be found.
As everyone knows that lasers
that can effortlessly
slice through anything,
are far superior, and make
cooler pew pew sounds.
We may have not handled blasters yet,
but we do have a full on laser cannon,
the Laser Avenger.
The Hummer mounted laser,
is capable of shooting at drones,
straight out of the sky,
with nothing but a highly
concentrated laser beam,
and that was only one kilowatt.
Northrop Grumman, the company responsible
for creating Laser Avenger,
is working on a 100 kilowatt beam,
that would be capable of far more damage,
but taking down aircrafts,
isn't the system's only function.
It can also be used to remotely
and safely detonate IEDs.
The US military's collection
of sci-fi weaponry,
will also soon include
the Mach 6 EM railgun.
Recently test fired in Virginia,
the cannon created for
use onboard battleships,
launches projectiles with
powerful electromagnetism.
Number one, Iron man Suit.
We'll probably never have
a real life Superman,
Thor or Hulk, but Ironman,
to quote Captain America in
the first Avengers movie,
is just a, "Big man in a suit of armor."
That sounds a lot more achievable,
than fighting an alien,
who's strong enough to tow the Earth,
or at least that's what the US military
must have thought when
they began developing
the Tactical Assault Light
Operator Suit or TALOS.
While it might not be able to fly,
the planned features
are pretty super human.
A mechanical exoskeleton,
would allow the user
to lift far more than
your average soldier,
effectively giving them super strength.
Scientists say that the suit,
which the military hopes to have
working prototypes up in 2018,
would also feature liquid armor,
that would solidify in milliseconds,
to be able to stop a bullet,
while still being light enough to wear.
What other sci-fi technology,
do you think will really exist soon?
Is there anything that you hope,
never makes its way into our world?
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