Fictional technology - Paperback

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 154. Chapters: Ansible, Cloaking device, Kardashev scale, Ghostbusters, List of Macross Frontier terminology, Atlas Shrugged, List of James Bond gadgets, List of Robotech vehicles, Technology of the Discworld, The Intersect, Matrix of Leadership, List of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 technology, Transformers technology, Space warfare in fiction, Universal translator, Spacesuits in fiction, Technology in the Night's Dawn trilogy, Artificial gravity, Zord, Escafil device, Psychohistory, Cone of Silence, Danger Room, Monolith, Proton pack, Turboencabulator, Ships of The Saga of Seven Suns, Xeelee technology, Resizing, Suicide booth, Technology of The Saga of Seven Suns, List of technology in Judge Dredd, Mother Box, Replicator, Weaponry in Dale Brown novels, Monomolecular wire, Force field, Meta, Stasis, WABAC machine, Orgasmatron, The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, Stalker, Cyber Conversion Unit, The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea, Interocitor, Boom tube, Lemarchand's box, In Death, Technomancy, Ludovico technique, Mueller device, The Artifact, Self-destruct, Alderson drive, Langston Field, S.P.I.N. Technology, Cryptex, Electric Pentacle, Technology of Robotech, Project Helix, Slime Blower, Biorobotics, Nanotechnology in fiction, List of mutagens in fiction, Digital fabricator, Spindizzy, Talkboy, Energon cube, Star Rigger, Stellar engineering, Smartwheels, Versificator, Bitek, Nanolathe, Nanosub. Excerpt: Ghostbusters is a supernatural comedy multi-media franchise created in 1984. Its inception was for the movie Ghostbusters, released on June 8, 1984 by Columbia Pictures. It centered around a group of eccentric New York City parapsychologists who investigate and capture ghosts for a living. For the movie this franchise licensed action figures, novelizations, and other original materials to be produced around the movies theme. After this initial success they released original stories in other fields such as a comic book, a video game, a television series, and a theme park attraction. With the 2009 release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game the characters within the Ghostbusters set up their own fictional version of a Ghostbusters franchise to open Ghostbusters locations in other cities, which in real life was earlier seen in two independent films not officially approved by Columbia Pictures. The concept of the first film was inspired by Dan Aykroyd's own fascination with the paranormal, and it was conceived by Aykroyd as a vehicle for himself and friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alum John Belushi. Aykroyd came up with Ghostbusters after reading an article about quantum physics and parapsychology in the American Society of Psychical Research Journal and then watching movies like Ghostchasers. Aykroyd thought, "Let's redo one of those old ghost comedies, but let's use the research that's being done today. Even at that time, there was plausible research that could point to a device that could capture ectoplasm or materialization; at least visually." The original story as written by Aykroyd was much more ambitious-and unfocused-than what would be eventually filmed; in Aykroyd's original vision, a group of Ghostbusters would travel through time, space and other dimensions taking on huge ghosts (of which the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was just one of many). Also, the Ghostbusters wore S.W.A.T.-like outfits and used wands instead of Proton Packs to fight the ghosts; Ghostb...