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 reduced-gravity aircraft is a type of fixed-wing aircraft that provides brief near-weightless environments for training astronauts, conducting research and making gravity-free movie shots. Currently, NASA uses a modified C-9 plane to create simulations of a weightless environment, both for training purposes and to conduct weightlessness experiments (without the enormous costs of space travel). Until recently, only a select few had the privilege of experiencing these flights. Today, a compan...

ReExcite has come up with RightShears, a scissor design that will definitely make you believe that there can be more to cutting than what the traditional scissor set would have you believe. One may wonder why someone would even think about redesigning a pair of scissors; scissors tend to work well enough. Shane Robert Vermette is the founder of ReExcite. A traditional pair of scissors would have the handle and the blades aligned together, but with RightShears, the blades are positioned at ...

Did you ever imagine you’d come to the desert to go skiing? Ski Dubai in Mall of the Emirates is the first indoor ski resort to open in the Middle East. You’ll discover 22,500 square metres of snow spread over five runs of varying difficulty, from the bunny slope to the black run, along with a freestyle area for snowboarders and tobogganers. The 3,000-square-metre Snow Park is great family fun, with snow caves, toboggan slopes and tube rides. Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22,500 squ...

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Ok, so it may not be quite as ambitious as some all-purpose cleaning robots, but this so-called KAR robot arm developed by a group of researchers from Panasonic and the University of Tokyo does appear to at least do the sole task it was designed for relatively well. While it can't exactly "wash" the dishes, per se, it can apparently pick up even delicate dishes without damaging them, dip them in the water, load them into a dishwasher, and even turn on said dishwasher. The researchers apparently ...

Christopher Holm-Hansen designed a smart home device, which can become your helper at cooking wholesome meal with a pleasant taste. Whenever you cook for family, friends, or simply yourself, Tastee will assist you in getting flavours out in your food. The device communicates with your tablet via bluetooth; once it is put into the pot, it will start transmitting flavor data, which will be then processed and converted into special taste diagrams. If you need some tips on cooking, just press the bu...

Team of computer scientists from MIT has been developing technologies that allow for long-distance motion detection for several years; using wireless signals, they created a high-tech motion sensor that could allow parents to monitor their baby's breathing from the other side of the house or firefighters to determine if there are living survivors in a burning building. Now, the researchers have taken the technology one step further, and have used Wifi signals to allow you to see through walls. ...

The NASA Clean Air Study[1] has been led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in association with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA). Its results suggest that certain common indoor plants may provide a natural way of removing toxic agents such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from the air, helping neutralize the effects of sick building syndrome. INDOOR AIR POLLUTION IS RANKED AMONG TOP 5 HEALTH RISKS TO PUBLIC HEALTH - WHAT IS CAUSING ...

The use of water clocks has its roots from Archimedes during the rise of Alexandria in Egypt and continues on through Byzantium. The water clocks by Persian engineer Al-Jazari, however, are credited for going "well beyond anything" that had preceded them. In al-Jazari's 1206 treatise, he describes one of his water clocks, the elephant clock. The clock recorded the passage of temporal hours, which meant that the rate of flow had to be changed daily to match the uneven length of days throughout...

The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and uses them to stream live video of Earth for viewing online. The cameras are enclosed in a temperature specific housing and are exposed to the harsh radiation of space. Analysis of the effect of space on the video quality, over the time HDEV is operational, may help engineers decide which cameras are the best types to use on future missions. High school studen...

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), optical scientist Nasser Peyghambarian and his team at the University of Arizona are working to make next-generation holograms possible. Researchers have developed a system that can render an image in near real-time and update the image every two seconds for Hologram. Holo-TV is essentially a real-time, moving hologram, calculated and rendered by the bending (diffraction) of laser light on the fly. And while your knowledge of Holo-TV...

Hyperspectral imaging, like other spectral imaging, collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifying materials, or detecting processes. A Hyperspectral Imager is a type of remote sensing instrument that can accurately measure specific quantities for a number of disparate applications. Crop Health, Water Depth, Rock Typ...

The Zero Gravity Research Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio is a unique facility designed to perform tests in a reduced gravity environment. It has successfully supported research for the United States manned spacecraft programs and numerous unmanned projects. The facility uses vertical drop tests in a vacuum chamber to investigate the behavior of components, systems, liquids, gases, and combustion in such circumstances. The Zero Gravity Research Facility is NASA’s...

Connected Car connects all its devices to other devices within the car/vehicles and or devices, networks and services outside the car including other cars, home, office or infrastructure. Today’s car has the computing power of 20 personal computers, features about 100 million lines of programming code, and processes up to 25 gigabytes of data an hour. Yet while automotive digital technology has traditionally focused on optimizing the vehicle’s internal functions, attention is now turning to d...