GPS stands for Global Positioning System and is a network that is made up of three main segments: Space segment – 24 satellites orbit the earth twice a day, traveling at over 7,000 mph. They are solar powered but have battery backup for when they are in the earth’s shadow. They are positioned so that at any given time there are at least 4 satellites ‘visible’ from any point on earth. Control segment – A master control station (located in Colorado Springs), unmanned monitor stations and gro...

Spacewalk Any time an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space, it is called a spacewalk. A spacewalk is also called an EVA. EVA stands for extravehicular activity. The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov. He was from Russia. The first spacewalk was on March 18, 1965. It was 10 minutes long. The first American to go on a spacewalk was Ed White. His spacewalk was on June 3, 1965, during the Gemini 4 mission. White's spacewalk lasted 23 minutes. Today, astro...

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'Elephant Nose ' - It’s an electronic device that utilizes artificial nose technology to sense the freshness of food. This sensor technology has been designed to identify the state of foods such as, its freshness. The artificial nose technology senses and displays all information you need to know on the LCD panel. Due to its size, it would be easier for you to carry anywhere, such as grocery stories or market, test everything before you buy.  

MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent), is a social robot that acts as a friendly, in-car companion. AIDA is designed to use the driver’s mobile device as its face. The phone displays facial expressions and is the main computational unit to manage information presented to the driver. AIDA provide...

Hercules Step Rider Powered Stairclimber's advanced system provides all of the essential stair climbing functions. Moving loads up or down stairs. Tall and heavy loads are no problem for our Stairclimbers. Avoid injury or damage.... the Stair Robot Stairclimber can carry loads of 1000 kg up and down stairs. .... All Hercules Lifting Solutions are engineered, designed and built to eliminate lifting related injuries. ... Up and Down Stairs Stairclimber Power assisted. Handtruck Stairclimbers...

Utah-based company Klymit came up with a wild idea for cold-weather clothing: replace traditional insulation with gas. Its NobleTek inflatable clothing. Klymit’s original argon-driven insulation, seen on garments like the Ulaar jacket, was designed to offer some clear benefits over traditional fill insulation materials like goose down and Primaloft. It offered the wearer the ability to adjust the garment’s warmth level throughout the day, adding versatility without so much emphasis on layer...

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card–sized single-board computers developed in England, United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intent to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and developing countries. The original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are manufactured in several board configurations through licensed manufacturing agreements with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman. The hardware is the same across all manufacturers. ...

Anystream is an Internet software company that specializes in streaming media encoding technology. The company designs scalable software that automated the laborious process of encoding and transcoding media for demanding broadcast and production environments. Anystream's Agility software has become a standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media companies as BBC, Red Bee Media, BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, Foxsports.com, NFL Films, weather.com and o...

Anyone looking for a more comfortable way to enjoy the outdoors while relaxing may be interested in the new inflatable air lounger called the KAISR. KAISR lounger can be inflated in just two seconds and provides a comfortable way for one person to lye out or up to 3 people to sit side-by-side. constructed from high quality parachute material and can be assembled and collapsed in just a few seconds, making them easily portable. The KAISR not only keeps you comfortable, it comes with spac...

'ZW-HLN' Smart Hat by Zero Wearables is a hat for the 21st century. Combining the worlds of fashion, social networking, and technology, the ZW-HLN Hat has a built in E Ink display so your hat can be customized to suit you Connecting to the app via Bluetooth, this stylish hat can be programmed to display your own logo or message whenever you want. With the app, you can create the design as well as schedule to showcase a variety. https://youtu.be/rfWcX2p0G0Q  

Adopting a cat can be lots of fun, but you need to spend time to take care of your pet and play with it. There are plenty of cute cat toys available on the market. These 5 cat toys let you control them from your smartphone: Mousr: a robotic mouse for your cat. It sees and reacts to your cat’s movements. You can control it from your smartphone. Obi: a smart laser toy for cats and dogs. You can program it from your smartphone. Obi has a button on the back to activate the...

Catspad is a WiFi-enabled pet feeder that lets you monitor your pet’s diet from anywhere in the world. The machine can hold 8 liters of water and 1.7kg of pet food. It has weight, pressure, and RFID sensors and a rechargeable battery. Catspad monitors your cat’s daily consumption rate and lets you know when it is running low on water and food. Catspad is compatible with all types of kibbles. It has weight, pressure, and RFID sensors. https://youtu.be/6yh7CAkF6rg Designed to integrate...

Emerging Possibilities for Space Propulsion Breakthroughs The ideal interstellar propulsion system would be one that could get you to other stars as quickly and comfortably as envisioned in science fiction. Before this can become a reality, two scientific breakthroughs are needed: discovery of a means to exceed light speed, and discovery of a means to manipulate the coupling between mass and spacetime. This article explains why these breakthroughs are needed and introduces the emerging possib...

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Ambi Climate is a small, sleek internet of things device that makes your existing infrared remote-controlled air conditioner smart. It allows you to sync your AC with your smartphone, giving you complete access to monitor and control your air conditioner wherever you are. Ambi Climate uses predictive climate control by monitoring the temperature and environment both inside and outside maximizing energy use. In fact, thermal comfort isn’t about temperature alone. That is why Ambi Climate takes in...

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences. (The history of the arts and humanities is termed as the history of scholarship.) Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world, produced by scientists who emphasize the observation, explanation, and prediction of real world phenomena. Historiography of science, in contrast, often draws on the historica...

High school student Judith Miles Skylab experiment with Keith Demorest and Henry Floyd, both of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). In her experiment, called "Web Formation in Zero Gravity," spiders were released into a box and their actions recorded to determine how well they adapted to the absence of gravity. The experiment flew aboard the Skylab 3 mission and proved that spiders could still spin webs in microgravity. The experiement was designed to measure motor response, an indicat...

iRobot Mirra 530 Pool Cleaning Robot - 'Mirra' uses enhanced robotic technology to deep clean pool surfaces and water, removing leaves, hair and dirt, as well as algae, pollen and bacteria as small as two microns. Mirra has a self-contained vacuum, pump and filter, so it won’t strain your existing systems. An added bonus is energy cost savings from running these systems less frequently. And because there’s no installation required, you simply drop it in the pool, turn it on and let it go. Des...

Derived from the word “jiva”, which means “life” in Sanskrit, Rejiva is a new and unique wearable device worn on the chest, that monitors your total health- heart and respiratory rates, sleep quality, stress level and much more. An FDA-registered monitor you wear, combined with a smartphone app, lets you view, understand and respond to vital signs and other valuable data collected in key areas. It analyzes the state of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and can be an early detector of any ...

Netatmo's Welcome camera does home security better, thanks to revolutionary face recognition. When your children pass in front of the camera, Welcome recognizes them. Welcome sends the names of the people it sees directly to your smartphone. Be notified when your children or elderly parents are home. The security camera also alerts you when it sees a stranger. Welcome’s setup is straightforward. Place the camera indoors, plug it in and download the free app. Identify your loved ones with a...

How will future space suits differ from the current ones? Well, for one thing, the boots will be made for walking. Astronauts who wear space suits for extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) don't walk. They hover and float, or their feet are placed into foot restraints so they don't drift away. In the future, however, astronauts may go to Mars as part of NASA's new vision. And they'll need very different boots to walk on the planet's surface or drive a rover. Image to Right: Soft boots are the ...

Smartphone Temperature Sensor: Thermodo Measure the temperature right where you are Thermodo, is a product designed by Danish developer Robocat. The companies first foray into hardware comes in the form of a tiny passive temperature sensor that plugs into your headphone jack of your smartphone or tablet. The startup is primarily known for their weather apps and often would receive 1 star reviews on the app store with users complaining that it was not measuring the curr...

  Silent Beacon This is one of the newest personal safety alarms to hit the market. It’s a small keychain transponder with a panic button that communicates with your smartphone via its accompanying app and Bluetooth technology. You indicate your emergency contacts during set-up. If you’d like your loved one(s) to get an alert when you’re in trouble, they’ll need to install the app as well. When you hit the emergency button, they’ll automatically receive a pop-up notification with y...

WeMo Sensors WeMo’s new home sensors allow users to monitor their entire home from anywhere using a mobile device and the WeMo Link, a Wi-Fi-to-Zigbee bridge that connects the sensors to the home’s wireless network. Subscription-free and a snap to install and use, the four new WeMo sensors provide peace of mind within the home and can alert users when things are amiss. Through the WeMo app, users can set schedules and receive alerts and notifications, as well as program the sensors as triggers ...

Clarity is a small, keychain-sized wearable air pollution sensor aimed at tracking air quality in badly polluted places David Lu who teamed up with seven other students at University of California and decided to do something about it. The team came up with the ‘Clarity’, the world’s first ever air monitor. Clarity is a keychain-size gadget that will let you track air exposure. It can connect via a smartphone app and gives you real-time alert of air pollution as well as indicates the availabil...

Exhale ceiling fan pulls air in much like a vortex, and moves air horizontally in all directions 360 degrees as well as down at a 45 degree angle. The air moving around the room feels more natural, more like an outdoor breeze. The fan has a 34-inch diameter and features an efficient DC motor. As the Exhale fan runs, the air multiplies over time mixing the air efficiently and creating a stable temperature in the room. The company claims that the bladeless ceiling fan uses 50 to 80 percent less...

At the end of a long day of work, many people like to grab a cold pint of beer. Few of them think about the bubbles in the glass and how much brewers have to pay to put them there. But Robert Zubrin — president of the Mars Society and founder of multiple aerospace technology companies — does. Zubrin and his companies have worked with Johnson Space Center’s In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) team for years, developing technologies that could take existing substances on Mars — especially Marti...

A space blanket (also known as a Mylar blanket, first aid blanket, safety blanket, thermal blanket or weather blanket) is an especially low-weight, low-bulk blanket made of heat-reflective thin plastic sheeting. Their design reduces the heat loss in a person's body which would otherwise occur due to thermal radiation, water evaporation, or convection. Their compact size before unfurling and light weight makes them ideal when space is at a premium. They may be included in first aid kits and al...

Owlet baby care - A sensor-lined sock that monitors a baby's vital signs through its foot, and transmits the data to a smartphone app or internet-based device via Bluetooth. Parents can check on a baby's skin temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen levels and sleep quality at a glance, and even be alerted to the baby rolling over. As a monitoring tool rather than a medical or diagnostic device, the smart sock aims to help parents be more aware of potential health-related danger signs so that th...