Sensio Immersium
        Total immersion theater—the next best thing to being there. Sensio’s Immersium (www.sensio.tv) combines 3D movie projection, force feedback seats, and special effects to create a “4D” cinema experience. You have to wear special glasses and stick to a short list of specially encoded movies, but you’ll get over it when Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, bowls you over in “Encounter in the Third Dimension.” The heart of the Immersium is a Sensio Pro 3D HD processor backed up by a digital video server. Twin 1080p DLP projectors blast the nscreen with 12,000 combined lumens. A full-blown Immersium 100 with 96 seats starts at $835,000. Anything more realistic would have to include a pheromone generator for the scent of Angelina Jolie’s neck. Or Brad Pitt’s breath.

        Volvo Integrated Safety Truck
There’s just something primordially comforting about snugglingup inside a nice, warm Volvo. The Integrated SafetyTruck (www.volvo.com/trucks) will reward your trust by enveloping you in the most protective cocoon on offer from the automotive industry. You’ll feel a deep sense of peace because Volvo has mated technology and design to create the “safest truck in the world.” Sensors, such as radar and night vision, alert you to potential dangers. The Truck can also take action under threatening conditions, such as braking and steering before an imminent collision. Of course, accidents can happen despite all precautions, so the Truck can call emergency services and guide them to you. Described by Volvo as a “rolling laboratory unit,” the Integrated Safety Truck won’t be reproduced. Volvo declined to put a price on it, too. Even a heavy truck has to have some secrets.

       Primal Rides Robocoaster
OK, Mechwarrior, picture this: You’ve lost the battle. You’ve ejected. And the enemy leader has just picked up your defenseless body in one of his Atlas’ mammoth paws, and he’s shaking you around like a bottle of salad dressing. Theme park ride firm Primal Rides (www.primalrides.com) plunks seats on an enormous industrial robot arm from KUKA Robotics to create the Robocoaster. And in case being bodily tossed to and fro isn’t fun enough (see the video at www.pri malrides.com/Movies/Human.wmv; the capital letters are important), Primal Rides can create themed “Fight Or Flight” environments around one or more robot arms. Suddenly you’re piloting your own ‘Mech, fighting an undersea kraken in a submarine, you name it. Lasers flash. Smoke roils. Surround sound pounds. All you have to do is lay down your $588,000 and shake the robotic hand of destiny.