Star Trek: Entertainment inspiring innovation

We had The History Channel on right now, and there's a show on called "How William Shatner Changed the World". Interesting stuff. People watching the Star Trek shows, original series as well as Next Generation were inspired to try to invent things similar to the technology they saw on the show.

Here's an article about the show on CNN and another article from Hollywood North Report

Hosted and narrated by Shatner and based on his book, I'm Working on That, How William Shatner Changed the World meets the brightest minds of Silicon Valley and their Trek-inspired inventions that have changed the world.

Apparently the man who dreamed up the Apple Quicktime Player got the idea from watching a scene in which Data has commanded the computer to play lots of different musical pieces all at once. The same guy is now working on trying to create holodeck technology.

So, what's everyone else up to tonight? (Don't forget to say happy birthday to Kimmy.)

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