{"id":29224,"date":"2016-08-22T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-are-working-on-a-real-life-star-trek-phaser"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:55:07","slug":"scientists-are-working-on-a-real-life-star-trek-phaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-are-working-on-a-real-life-star-trek-phaser","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are working on a real-life Star Trek phaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dcgta5ncjtk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Want to be the next Captain Kirk or Spock; we\u2019re getting more close of being a Star Trek &amp; Star Wars world with drones and fighter jets with death lasers, cyborgs with BMI technology, sabers being developed, and now the Star Trek phaser is being developed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Every year<em> Star Trek<\/em>\u2019s futuristic sci-fi technology comes closer to just being \u201ctechnology.\u201d We live in a world where video chats, communicators, and real-time translators are normal, where androids are becoming more and more realistic and food replicators are almost here thanks to 3D printing. The next step? Phasers!<\/p>\n<p>Next month the Smithsonian Channel will air a two-hour<em> Star Trek<\/em> special to celebrate the show\u2019s 50th Anniversary, which will take a look at some of the technologies the show predicted. In this just-released segment of<em> Building Star Trek<\/em>, future phaser use is predicated by laser scientist Rob Afzal of Lockheed Martin who, let\u2019s be honest, has one of the coolest titles in the world. (\u201cWhat do you do?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a LASER SCIENTIST.\u201d) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/scientists-working-on-real-life-star-trek-phaser-1667364\/\">http:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/scientists-working-on-real-life-...r-1667364\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to be the next Captain Kirk or Spock; we\u2019re getting more close of being a Star Trek &amp; Star Wars world with drones and fighter jets with death lasers, cyborgs with BMI technology, sabers being developed, and now the Star Trek phaser is being developed. Every year Star Trek\u2019s futuristic sci-fi technology comes closer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1499,1488,1506,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-cyborgs","category-drones","category-food","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60685,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions\/60685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}