"'Out of order?' Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!"
— Dark Helmet, Spaceballs
An index of all those gadgets and inventions we are supposed to be getting in the future. Almost exclusive to the Speculative Fiction genre, though we are starting to creep up on some of this stuff here...
Related to Applied Phlebotinum and a myriad of Speculative Fiction Tropes.
Tropes:
Subcategories:
- Ace Custom
- Activation Sequence
- Agony Beam
- The Alternet
- Amphibious Automobile
- Anti-Radiation Drug
- Arcology
- Artificial Afterlife
- Artificial Gill
- Artificial Gravity
- Augmented Reality
- Auto-Kitchen
- Auto-Doc
- Automated Automobiles
- Beehive Barrier
- Bio-Armor
- Biodata
- Biotech Is Better
- Brain/Computer Interface
- Brain Uploading
- Breathable Liquid
- Chronoscope
- Cloning Body Parts
- Comm Links
- Computerized Judicial System
- Containment Field
- Credit Chip
- Cryo-Prison
- Cyberspace
- Data Crystal
- Data Drive MacGuffin
- Data Pad
- Death Ray
- Decontamination Chamber
- Deflector Shields
- Digital Avatar
- Dilating Door
- Disintegration Chamber
- Disintegrator Ray
- Domed Hometown
- Dowsing Device
- Dress-O-Matic
- Drill Tank
- Dyson Sphere
- Earthquake Machine
- Electric Instant Gratification
- Energy Weapon
- Enhance Button
- Escape Pod
- Everything Is 3D-Printed in the Future
- Every Device Is a Swiss-Army Knife
- Everything Is an iPod in the Future
- Everything Sensor
- Extradimensional Power Source
- Facial Recognition Software
- Fantastic Radiation Shielding
- Fictional Social Network
- Flawed Prototype
- Flying Car
- Food Pills
- Force-Field Door
- Freeze Ray
- FTL Test Blunder: Trying a new FTL system comes with complications
- Future Copter
- Future Spandex
- Futuristic Jet Injector
- Futuristic Superhighway
- Gadget Watches
- Grand Theft Prototype
- Grey Goo
- Hard Light
- Helicopter Pack
- High-Tech Hexagons
- Higher-Tech Species
- Holodeck Malfunction
- Hologram
- Holographic Terminal
- Homing Lasers
- Hoverboard
- Human Popsicle
- Hypno Ray
- Immortality Field
- Inertial Dampening
- Infinite Supplies
- Interdimensional Travel Device
- Invisibility Cloak
- Jet Pack
- Jump Jet Pack
- Kill Sat
- Laser Blade
- Laser Sight
- Latex Perfection
- Lightning Gun
- Literal Surveillance Bug
- Longevity Treatment
- Lotus-Eater Machine
- Magic from Technology
- Magic Tool
- Magnetic Weapons
- Matter Replicator
- Mechanical Evolution
- Mechanical Horse
- Mechanical Insects
- Mechanical Monster
- Mechanical Muscles
- Mental Picture Projector
- Mental Space Travel
- Mercurial Base
- Merging Machine
- Microbot Swarm
- Military Mashup Machine
- Minovsky Physics
- Mirror Chemistry
- Mobile Factory
- Morality Chip
- Nanomachines
- Neural Implanting
- Neuro-Vault
- Neutron Bomb
- New Tech Is Not Cheap
- No New Fashions in the Future
- No-Paper Future
- No Seat Belts
- No Tech but High Tech
- Nuclear Nullifier
- Omniscient Database
- Organic Technology
- Orgasmatron
- Orion Drive
- Our Doors Are Different
- Our Wormholes Are Different
- Personality Chip
- Photoprotoneutron Torpedo
- Plasma Cannon
- Plot Technology
- Plug 'n' Play Technology
- Portal Network
- Power Harness
- Powered Armor
- Powered by a Black Hole
- Psycho Serum
- Ramscoop
- Rapid DNA Test
- Ray Gun
- Reactionless Drive
- Reflecting Laser
- Reinforce Field
- Retro Upgrade
- Script-Reading Doors
- Sharpened to a Single Atom
- Shaving Is Science
- Shrink Ray
- Slow Laser
- Smart Gun
- Smart House
- Solar Sail
- Some Kind of Force Field
- Sonic Stunner
- Space Base
- Space Clothes
- Space Elevator
- Space Plane
- Space Station
- Static Stun Gun
- Stat-O-Vision
- Stellar Station
- Subspace or Hyperspace
- Subspace Ansible
- Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology
- Super Multi-Purpose Room
- Super Prototype
- Super-Soldier
- Superweapon
- Super Wheelchair
- Super Wrist-Gadget
- Swiss-Army Appendage
- Synthetic Plague
- Techno Dystopia
- Teleportation
- Teleport Gun
- Terraform
- Theotech
- Time Machine
- Tomorrowland
- Tractor Beam
- Transformation Ray
- Translator Collar
- Translator Microbes
- Transparent Tech
- Twinmaker
- Universal Remote Control
- Unusual User Interface
- Uterine Replicator
- Utility Belt
- Vibroweapon
- Video Phone
- Virtual-Reality Warper
- Wave-Motion Gun
- Wave-Motion Tuning Fork
- Weaponized Car
- Weaponized Teleportation
- Weather-Control Machine
- Wetware CPU
- We Will Use Lasers in the Future