10 Movie Technologies That Actually Exist

1. Teleportation

What is it?
Teleportation is shown in some movies, such as Star Trek Click to look into! >> Read More... , Star Wars Star Wars is a show of Mastiii, India’s most popul >> Read More... , ‘Terminator’, etc. It can teleport anything or anyone from one place to another within seconds.

In real life:
In the year 2009, researchers from University of Maryland teleported an atom from one place to another. However, to transmit the information needed for a human, it would take 4.85 quadrillion years.

2. Bio-Weapon

What is it?
Bio-Weapon is a biological weapon that is created in a lab. Bio-Weapon is made of mutated viruses or other pathogens. It is shown in movies like Resident Evil and World War Z Click to look into! >> Read More... .

In real life:
In 2011, Ron Fouchier mutated the bird flu virus, which has a 50 percent mortality rate. The Spanish flu that killed 40 million people had 1 percent mortality rate.

3. Driverless Cars

What is it?
It is a car that can run in auto-pilot mode. Such cars are shown in some movies. One such example of a movie is “I, Robot”.

In real life:
Google’s driverless cars have driven over 482.803 km unassisted by human control. The cars are even given personalities so they can drive aggressively or cautiously.

4. Androids

What is it?
Androids are robots with feelings. They look exactly like humans but are machines. Androids are shown in Terminator movies.

In real life:
In 2003, The ‘Actroid’ was unveiled: a robot meant to mirror an attractive woman. The Android breathed, blinked, recognised touch and could imitate human behaviour.

5. Nano-Drones

What is it?
Nano-drones are small drones that can be used for spying.

In real life:
Unmanned aerial vehicles which are less than 3 cm in length, with remote surveillance abilities, exist. Around 100 different models are currently in use according to the Pentagon.

6. GM Food

What is it?
GM foods are foods which are grown in laboratories. In the movie “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”, the protagonist creates a machine that can produce food items like pizza, burger and ice-cream.

In real life:
Dutch scientists discovered the ability to grow meat in test tubes, using stem cells. The first stem cell burger cost $3,300,000 and was a little bland, but authentic in taste.

7. Force Fields

What is it?
Force fields are invisible layers around a base or a city that can protect the area from foreign attacks. Force fields are shown in some movies including ‘Star Wars’.

In real life:
Boeing has created a powerful, highly concentrated laser: Matrix. It is designed to detect and shoot down anything that flies into its range, whether it is a jet fighter or rocket.

8. Mind Reading

What is it?
In the movie series “X-Men”, Professor Xavier can read minds and even control them.

In real life:
Fitted with microelectrodes to read brain activity, a student tweeted by just thinking of letters. “Emotiv” have already brought out a video game controller operated by brain activity.

9. Face Scanning

What is it?
In many movies, a camera can scan a person’s face and generate his or her identity.

In real life:
The police can scan your face and check it against 4 million matches per second. By 2020 the FAA predict 30,000 drones will be scanning the US airspace alone.

10. Military Exoskeleton

What is it?
Military Exoskeleton is worn by people to enhance their abilities. Use of such exoskeleton is shown in the movie “The Iron Man”.

In real life:
Some models let users lift 17x their normal lifting weight and punch through 8 cm of wood. Others carry loads of up to 90kg and reduce oxygen consumption by 10 percent.