(via xkcd: The Flake Equation)

Real Genetically Modified Sci-Fi stock photography for sale at 123RF

First laser pistol ever made. Soviet personal defense weapon created for cosmonauts to keep the integrity of ships and stations plating. Created in 1984
found on Reddit 

via Paleofuture 

“Now that atomic energy is coming, we have asked artist James B. Settles to picture for us one of the developments in amusement to which it might be put. He surprised us with this huge rolling cross-country pleasure ball.
With atomic energy, it has been postulated that man will have many leisure hours that he never had before. He will have most of the day to pursue as he pleases, either for pleasure, or in pursuit of a hobby, or in art, or in just plain being lazy.”
February 1946 issue of Amazing Stories

Hi-Tech Babies: Alternative Reproduction Technologies - Ideas in Conflict
McCuen - 1990
(found on Awful Library Books) 

Existenz (D. Cronenberg - 1999) 
Game Pod 

LA Times

the History of Science Fiction by Ward Shelley