Sci-fi: No longer pie in the sky

Lofty ideas: There aren’t any flying cars that can time travel for sale as yet, but it may someday become a reality.

We take a closer look at instances where sci-fi inventions are no longer a figment of someone’s imagination, but a reality that impacts today’s world.

The line between fiction and ­reality is blurring. Those bizarre science ­concepts and contraptions that we’ve encountered in books, films, comics and the like may have had their roots in someone’s vivid imagination, but they certainly have not remained that way for long.