Star Trek has inspired many real-life technological advancements, but we're still waiting for one of its best ones to arrive: replicators. The devices are sci-fi-magical in that they can create any ...

In a waterfront factory in Brooklyn, one founder is boldly going forward with an ambitious initiative: to make technology from Star Trek real. That entrepreneur is Matthew Putman, and while his vision ...

Dead phone chargers shouldn’t require Amazon trips when your home printer creates replacements-and that’s just the beginning of 3D printing’s replicator revolution. Modern 3D printers now fabricate ...

Replicators can create anything by rearranging atoms, but it can’t make new matter. That’s against the laws of physics. During more prosperous eras, there were matter mixtures developed and used ...

For those unfamiliar with the replicator in Star Trek, it is a futuristic device that can produce any type of food or drink based on a voice command (such as when Patrick Stewart’s Jean Luc Picard ...

This story is part of "TV Dinner," a Salon Food series about the connection between what we watch and what we eat. One of the great narrative dilemmas for sci-fi and fantasy writers imagining wondrous ...