7 Pieces Of Tech From Video Games That'll Actually Exist Soon

3. Rail Gun From Quake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZPp3aEjuM I'm pretty sure that Quake invented the railgun. Sure, some French guy (Louis Octave Fauchon-Vlleplee) in 1918 came up with its predecessor, the electric cannon, and the Nazis dabbled with some ideas that never came to fruition, but it's only in 1996 that id Software took the next step, threw some polygons together and created the first working version of it. Since then, railguns have been ubiquitous in video games. This leads me to believe that someone at the US Department of Defence is an avid FPS fan, because the US is now deep into testing its first weaponised railgun - the General Atomics Blitzer. The menacing naval gun relies on electromagnetic force rather than gunpowder to fire projectiles, and is capable of firing several times further and faster than today's explosive ammunition. Railgun ammunition is also much cheaper and safer, because there are no explosives contained inside. The Quake railgun is still, of course, far more advanced. It's handheld for a start, and hits its target instantly by way of a bright green electromagnetic beam. Sorry, real life, you still have some way to go...