Originally Posted by Frank Merrick

The 2017 FRC Season Teaser

is coming.*


Science Fiction Predicting Future Gadgets

I was watching a very old episode of Doctor Who recently and started thinking about the extent to which science fiction can predict consumer items we pretty much take for granted now.

Check out the ‘iPads’ in this still from the classic 1968 sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.


From 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film also apparently predicted our preference for staring at mobile screens rather than talking to each other.

Or check out these ‘Beats’ headphones on Cybermen from Doctor Who. Can you imagine the bass you’d get out of these things? A few minutes with these and your grey matter would be reduced to parfait, no joke.


Cybermen from Doctor Who: Rockin’ some serious Beats since 1966

Makes me wonder what we’re seeing in today’s science fiction that 50 years from now we (well, not me, but maybe some of you) will look back at and say “oh, yeah….”


Frank

*As everyone knows, there are three scientifically objective levels of greatness:

1. Not great

2. Pizza great

3. Pizza and Wings great

This teaser is going be Pizza and Wings great. With a side of Fried Pickle Chips.

Originally Posted by frcguy (Post 1604091)

Start up the rumor mill...

Maybe we'll have a sci-fi element this year?

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis (Post 1604099)

The first section, before all the sci-fi stuff, is rather interesting. The header is "The 2017 FRC Season Teaser", with content "is coming". It seems to me that the actual teaser might be the words "is coming". As in "Winter is coming". Winter = cold = ice... a hockey game! I'm thinking a Lunacy/Breakaway cross... trying to control and shoot a ball, while driving on regolith, without being able to extend past the frame perimeter (except briefly) or draw the ball in past the frame perimeter... that would be some challenge!

Originally Posted by waialua359 (Post 1604101)

The game field will be completely covered with a black cloth.
You have to use your tablet/computer and rely on your human player to help you score.

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb) (Post 1604103)

How about a holo lens? I believe at some point Microsoft promised something to do with the holo lens for FIRST at the 2015 championships or something like that. Not too sure what they talked about specifically though.