Odd inspirations behind cool science fiction machines

I'm a little behind on blogging a number of things from around the web. One of them is this great little post by Annalee Newitz from last week, at science fiction blog io9 — about everyday objects that inspired cool scifi machines. "Most excitingly, the T-1000 was inspired, according to James Cameron, by chocolate fudge," she explains. "Mmmm, fudge."