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Staggering technology which makes your arm into an input device – just like magic!

LIKE any other self-respecting geek, I am massively frustrated that we aren’t all getting around by jet packs and Star Trek transporters like in the comics of my youth.
I blogged a while back about jet packs coming closer to reality, and now transporters have taken a massive leap forward too. (Just don’t expect to be [...]

Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the science of gravity and stuff. Short explanation? It’s not looking good.

YOU may have missed it in the middle of the week, but Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Spaceship Two – which was immediately christened the VSS Enterprise.
From what I can gather this was greeted with a good deal of cynicism on the interwebs, but I am massively excited by Branson’s news for what it means now [...]

YES, you read that right, a special  deflector shield is being developed to protect a spaceship as it returns to earth from space through the atmosphere.
The magnetic shield will be created by a superconducting coil, pushing superheated air away from the spaceship to keep it cool and getting rid of the need for traditional physical [...]

A WHILE ago I blogged about how the sci-fi inventions I assumed would be part of every day life by now had not turned up – but it seems I criticised the egg-headed scientist types too soon.
Within the space of two days, lasers and jet packs took a giant leap from the pages of sci-fi [...]