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  1. Global Entry: Tech-Savvy Travellers Speed Through Customs

    Thu, 9 May 2013

    photographs of entering travelers. In less than 60 seconds, a traveler can go through the customs process. "It's the Jetsons era of technology," said Custom's spokesperson Jaime Ruiz. "Systems like this are the future of international travel

  2. iRobot Roomba and Looj Updated to Clean Your Home Better Than You

    Tue, 14 Aug 2012

    Roomba 600 Series robotic vacuum cleaner. Image: iRobot. We might not yet have our own Rosie, the robot maid from " The Jetsons ," but that doesn't mean the home-cleaning robots we do have aren't getting better. Today iRobot , the maker

  3. The Facebook crash: Is social media going the way of blogging? (Remember blogging?)

    Fri, 1 Jun 2012

    after a nuclear winter, it's been nearly an article of faith that the future might look more like the past than like the Jetsons . Maybe what's about to happen in news is a return to the Iron Age of Media. Newspapers proliferated and profited

  4. Rick Santorum Takes Another Moon Shot At Newt Gingrich

    Sun, 5 Feb 2012

    many Americans were left scratching their heads especially since Newt is more prone to quoting George Washington rather than George Jetson ." The Op-Ed is the latest in a series of attacks Santorum is hurling in Gingrich's direction both on the campaign trail

  5. At-home Robots Monitor Kids After Surgery

    Tue, 13 Dec 2011

    It sounds like a plot straight out of the futuristic sitcom " The Jetsons " - robots that tend to and monitor patients recovering from surgery. But such a scenario is no longer science fiction. Doctors

  6. Top Toys For the Holidays: Soleil Moon Frye’s Picks

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    brain and test their memory. Fijit Friends: Another interactive toy that she pointed out looked like something out of The Jetsons (or maybe I just had my 80s youth on the brain). These Fijit Friends are the squishy little robot looking creatures

News

  1. Mother's Day Gifts: 'GMA' Puts Robotic Housecleaning Products to the Test

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    Mom's work is NEVER done. Can she get a little help? Sure! How about a robot? The Jetsons ' dream of mechanized cleaners and laundry folding robots is not quite here, but innovations in robotic vacuums, mops, litter

  2. Test Driving the Nissan Leaf Electric Car

    Mon, 7 Mar 2011

    sound" designed to be heard by pedestrians, warning them of your approach. It isn't exactly magnetic levitation, but George Jetson would certainly approve. The sound cuts out at 20 MPH, the assumption being that pedestrians can't accelerate beyond

  3. Meet the Future: 10 Robots on the Rise

    Tue, 15 Feb 2011

    about $75,180. The Education of Simon Remember Rosie, the sweet robotic housekeeper, from the cartoon series " The Jetsons "? She won't be bringing you breakfast yet, but researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology aren't too far

  4. Tense time for workers, as career paths fade away

    Wed, 12 Jan 2011

    to the kind of future he anticipated as a kid watching The Jetsons , the TV cartoon show about a family of the future whose pushing paper around," Novin says. Harking back to The Jetsons , he says, "I long for that day when all you have to

  5. Buy Your Very Own Jetpack

    Fri, 19 Nov 2010

    The recreational-use jetpack is expected to sell for about $100,000. "I certainly don't think it's going to be a George Jetson -sort-of-situation here, where there's one on every block, especially when the price starts out at $100,000

  6. 9 Sensational Sci-Fi Ideas That Came True

    Tue, 27 Jul 2010

    appropriate ad. Flying Car Company Unveils Latest 'Roadable Aircraft' Flying Cars So it's not the saucer-shaped vehicle George Jetson took to work. The skies are still waiting to welcome cars that fly. This week, Terrafugia , a leading flying car company

  7. From Apple's iPhone 4 to the Jetsons' Flying Car

    Mon, 7 Jun 2010

    including a flash camera, longer battery life and an application called "FaceTime" that will allow iPhone 4 users to make George Jetson -style video calls over wi-fi networks. Video calls over cellular networks won't be available until next year. Now

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Videos

  1. Nightline Online Remembering Hanna -Barbera

    Wed, 20 Dec 2006

    in the Flintstones to Scooby in the Jetsons . More than sixty years Barbera family life remained constant. Soon Hanna Barbera and one of the most profitable franchises there Genesis to the legacy of Hanna Barbera who singlehandedly. Pretty much

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    television programs from Yogi Bear in the Flintstones to Scooby -- in the Jetsons . More than sixty years Barbera and Hanna. Fashion hits for viewers of all ages so Nightline's Chris -- Reminds us of the
  2. Are Flying Bikes the Solution to Road Traffic?

    Thu, 13 Jun 2013

    If you're dreading your daily commute engineers in the Czech Republic may have just the answer for you right out of the Jetsons . It's a prototype right now to check out the flying electric Lifted off the ground by six battery powered engines

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    Czech Republic may have just the answer for you right out of the Jetsons . It's a prototype right now to check out the flying electric -- -- Lifted off the ground by six battery powered engines
  3. Car of the Future Drives Itself

    Tue, 25 Sep 2012

    collisions. Reporter: It's been a carmakers dream since george jetson sat in his automated flying car. " The jetsons " could happen? The vehicle can take complete control

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    able to completely avoid collisions. Reporter: It's been a carmakers dream since george jetson sat in his automated flying car. " The jetsons " could happen? The vehicle can take complete control and take you to your destination in comfort and safety and security. Reporter: This
  4. Sound Tracks

    Sat, 6 Aug 2011

    fascinating thing to me is that. It really doesn't need to sound like a corrupt because sound like those little bishops from the Jetsons cartoon. Which is kind of what Nissan won't. I can easily imagine a day when you could change the sound your car

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    to sound like a corrupt because sound like those little bishops from the Jetsons cartoon. Which is kind of what Nissan won't. I can easily imagine a day when you could change the sound your car
  5. Julie Jensen: Letter From the Grave

    Sun, 21 Aug 2011

    last in offense and yeah there and it would help her in any way if she hit. The affair came shortly after the birth of the Jetsons first son and during a period of depression that brought Julie to therapist Paul Defazio. And bad times. I've always

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    way if she hit. The affair came shortly after the birth of the Jetsons first son and during a period of depression that brought Julie to therapist Paul Defazio. And bad times. I've always done discussing
  6. iPhone 4GS: Exclusive First Look

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    restaurants. Each are fairly close to you I sit at. Finally this might be the kind of understanding machine crazy since the Jetsons and feared since 2001. Open the they do it. I'm sorry again. I'm afraid I can't do that machine servants seemed

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    Finally this might be the kind of understanding machine -- crazy since the Jetsons and feared since 2001. Open the -- they do it. I'm sorry again. I'm afraid I can't do that machine servants seemed
  7. WNN Papers: Teenage Tweeter

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    allow them to connect on the move either with a tap of the touch panel door through in car interface and sort of like the Jetsons its thickest science fiction movie. And the also allows drivers to change the color and design of the body. Through

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    touch panel door through -- in car interface and sort of like the Jetsons its thickest science fiction movie. And the -- also allows drivers to change the color and design of the body. Through the
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  1. The Jetsons at Work
  2. PHOTO The Pentagon wants to develop a flying car not unlike the one envisioned in the space-age TV show "The Jetsons."

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