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July 2013: The Future Of Flight
The incredible innovations, like drone swarms and perpetual flight, bringing aviation into the world of tomorrow. Plus: today's greatest sci-fi writers predict the future, the science behind the summer's biggest blockbusters, a Doctor Who-themed DIY 'bot, the organs you can do without, and much more.
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I've thought the same thing before about the Drivable T-Rex. My version differed in using quiet electric motors and is fully enclosed in tough, realistic skin. You would use many pinpoint cameras and screens to view the outside. The whole goal of this imagining was to see the reaction of people having no idea why there is a T-Rex looking at them through their windows. That and possibly terrifying a few wild animals like bears.
A drivable dinosaur project ALREADY EXISTS.
Check out Jonathan Tippett's "Prosthesis" anti-robot project in Vancouver at the eatART gallery. http://www.anti-robot.com/
What Robert Victor describes in PopSci in his dream has been in the works in reality (OK, it's 4-legged, not 2) for several years already, thanks primarily to the eatART Gallery in Vancouver, BC, and in part to some really cool engineering done in the MECH undergraduate Capstone Design Project course for which I've been the coordinating faculty member the last few years. Robert, go follow your dream and get Prosthesis into PopSci in real life!