Now this is technobabble!

[Rulius]

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/transmission.html

 

[Rii]

"It's not cheap but I'm sure the government will buy it."

 

[Canadave]

There's some more accurate history of the Turboencabulator on Wikipedia.

 

[Data Holmes]

The guy is good.

 

[scotpens]

The Turboencabulator is a ripoff. A Veeblefetzer will do everything a Turboencabulator does at half the cost, and never needs a lube or a tuneup.

 

[iguana_tonante]

The quantum transbabulator will blow them both out of the biz.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

It's scary that what he said could pass as and be published as an article in a reputable journal. The first link on the "technobabble" article on Wikipedia comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair

There's also the generator of technobabble articles. The authors encourage you to try to get your generated articles published.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

One of them has been published, and the other one was rejected. The rejection letter is pure gold.

 

[scotpens]

It's scary that what he said could pass as and be published as an article in a reputable journal. The first link on the “technobabble” article on Wikipedia comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair

The Turbowhatchamacallit is a joke and has never been taken as anything but a joke. It has nothing to do with the papers published by the Bogdanov brothers, whose work was in theoretical physics, not electrical or mechanical engineering.

 

[trekkiedane]

Nice one -had not seen that before!

But I do love the video from Rockwell Automation:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w[/yt]​

 

[Ablative_Oberth]

The Chrysler one is the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW0bx_Ooq4&feature=related

Trek-Flavor version from Sun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPlqPPPRS4&feature=player_embedded

 

[trekkiedane]

The Chrysler one is the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW0bx_Ooq4&feature=related

"The Turbo Encabulator Diagnostic Procedures Manual and Song Book"