Just another tidbit from my book that is no longer just on paper and quickly becoming a reality. The cloaking device that’s turning things invisible was developed by scientists at Birmingham University in England, and recently announced by British media as “a crystal that can exploit light refraction on demand.” Birmingham University chief scientist Dr. [...]
I was just reading about this and thought about a specific part of The Gaven where Damaes needed to use something similar. It seems a lot of the ideas and prototypes that incorporated into The Gaven are starting to become a reality, which is a good thing. Dr. Fiona Wood – a British born plastic [...]
Though I did not go into great detail about the cloak in The Gaven, here is another real life application of a tool used in The Gaven.
From Slashdot: “The Economic Times reports on the first working prototypes of a new technology that would measure blood alcohol content in a driver’s fingertips, using sophisticated touch-based sensors situated in steering wheels and door locks and engineers say that unlike court-ordered breath-analyzer ignition locks, which require a driver to blow into a tube and [...]
More often than not, my rejection letters tell me that what I am writing about could not happen in real life. They sometimes site that certain technologies don’t exist and could never exist. Nearly every technology in The Gaven has some type of prototype. When I put one part in about breathalyzers in cars, it [...]
