26 Real-Life Technological Innovations That Seem Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Movie

‘We can regrow teeth in a lab’
26 Real-Life Technological Innovations That Seem Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Movie
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With how quickly technology moves, new inventions sometimes don’t quite get the glow they deserve. Before we can even finish uttering an appreciative “whoaaaaa,” a new discovery has popped up on our news feed. Nevertheless, we’ve made huge strides, including things that seem damn near sci-fi, if you were to ask someone from just a few years back.

Redditors contributed the scientific inventions and discoveries that blew their mind, when they gave themselves a chance to really consider them. Buried in that constant progress are some things we should probably slow down and fully appreciate as breaking truly wild ground. 

Keep reading to find some fully proven science worthy of a bit more respect.

olKR2 4mo ago . Edited 4mo ago 2TB Micro SD cards. They equal over a million floppy drives and are the size of a fingernail.
BenekCript . 4mo ago We can regrow teeth in a lab.
N.F. Calaveras-Metal 4mo ago The whole LIGO thing has been pretty amazing. When I first heard about it a lot of scientists were skeptical that they would be able to discern a signal above the thermal noise. I have a few scientist friends that used it as an example of how money is wasted in research on stupid ideas. Fast forward a decade and they have detected black hole mergers and more recently have detected events that were confirmed by visual evidence. And now they are working on the gravitational background. The gravitational wave equivalent of the microwave background glow.
. 4mo ago kishin_ Gene editing with CRISPR
astronaute1337 4mo ago Protein folding is solved and that is a really big deal. It means that we can now figure out how different genes produce molecules in 3D and understand how they interact with each other. It opens the door to applications such us cancer vaccines to replace chemotherapy and target only cancerous tissue.
AdAmazing8187 . 4 4mo ago I remember when an automatic garage door opener and an answering machine felt like cutting edge tech for the uber wealthy. It blows my mind that humans created some of this stuff and I can't even explain to my child how a traditional light bulb even works...
umotex12 4mo ago Edited 4mo ago | think that people really quickly forgot that LLM's (or so-called Al) ability to generate responses from plain English is something that was just flat out impossible before. Every chat bot on Earth was MANUALLY constructed on hundreds of if-else clauses. Every boring copywriting text was written by a living human. Every batshit graphic and brainrot had to be manually assembled or automatically after a human set-up. It's essentialy a zombified human knowledge.
Pleasant_Yoghurt3915 . 4mo ago The photos that we're getting from Perseverance on Mars. Every time one pops up I feel like Squidward in SB-129 when he curls up on the floor and yells fuuutttuuuurreee a bunch Imao.
Sea_Appointment8408 . 4mo ago Lockheed Martin can grow aircraft skin that can store energy and change shape.
Fishyswaze 4mo ago Quantum computing is truly some sci fi shit. No matter how many times I listen to how it works it just blows my mind that it is a real thing that does actually work.
. 4mo ago Brain-computer interfaces that let paralyzed people move robotic limbs with just their thoughts. We're basically living in a cyberpunk novel now.
qchisq . 4mo ago Ozempic apparently doesn't just cure overweight, it also cures addiction and general unhappyness. Like, it's a wonder drug if true
StationFar6396 4mo ago Fusion. The fact we've managed to sustain containment for 22 minutes is crazy amazing.
4mo ago Warthog_ You know the whole regrow organs with stem cells. They can do that with the immune system. They can take your own stem cells, destroy your immune system, and regrow it. Why would they do that? Cancer. You have a nasty lymphoma? Well just kill the entire immune system and all the cancer and regrow from scratch. Source? I went through it personally. Had a deadly rare lymphoma with low survival rate and high reoccurrence. Surgery, chemo, and then a stem cell transplant later and Im NED (no evidence cancer) beyond which I'm supposed to be dead
limbodog . 4mo ago They modified mice to give them a gene believed to be associated with speech in humans. The resulting mice vocalized in a higher pitch, and with far greater complexity than their unmodified contemporaries.
WhydlJoinRedditAgain . 4mo ago A billionaire is putting microchips in peoples' heads is literally the most hack dystopian sci-fi you could find.
Prestigious Emu6039 4mo ago Mass media facilitating fascism 2.0
bobroberts1954 . 4mo ago The mRNA vaccine they developed for covid. Sequencing the human and every other genom, the experiments in artificial biology.
hadubrandhildebrands . 4mo ago Lab-grown meat
akka1000 ... 4mo ago 3d printing
QOTAPOTA . 4mo ago I'm blown away with wireless charging so I guess I'm a troglodyte.
. 4mo ago Waymo - true self driving taxis. No ВО, no conversations, no smell of lunch or cigarettes smell, play your own music or have silence. It's awesome
picksandchooses 4mo ago Affordable CNC milling machines, plasma cutters and 3D printers. A few hundred bucks and some free software for what used to cost 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars. Amazing.
Wilburkook . 4mo ago Earbuds now last for 20 hours. Sound just as good as headphones.
Anvanaar 4mo ago Scientists made a new kind of mouse. Woolly mice. No, really. They genetically engineered a new mouse.
mel_cache . 4mo ago Blue or green glowing animals from gene splicing.

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