This is cool, I hope to be a space tourist someday, and I don’t mean having my ashes shot into LEO!
SPACE.com — Space Tourist Greg Olsen Makes First Solo ISS Broadcast
Pixen
Looks like a cool little pixel editor for the Mac. Expect an actual logo for my site sometime soon!
Backscatter X-ray Scans
By using a flying beam of x-rays this company can quite literally see through walls! The technique is very much like how the picture on your TV is produced. A narrow beam of x-rays are projected to the target (like an electron gun in your TV) and the energy that is reflected back is recorded from exactly where the beam intersected the target (like how the phosphor glows in the picture tube when the electrons hit it). This builds up a picture of what is in side of the object being scanned. Items with low atomic numbers (such as explosives, drugs, cigarettes, and people) are shown in stark contrast to their surroundings.
Anti Sniper Robot
This is a great addition to the iRobot line of PackBots. The PackBot Explorer is equipped with a video camera and sound sensing gear that enables it to zero in on the source of gunfire. Once the gunfire is located the military personal can, as they say, ‘put mass on target’.
[via engadget]
Robotic-vacuum maker, BU team up on antisniper device
The Soft Phone
Forget touch typing with this baby. Mitsubishi and NTT DoCoMo are working together to create a phone with no keys, just touch screens. The idea is that new features can be added to the phones at any time. The menus can also be modified by the users to reduce the over all complexity of the system. Sounds like an idea that has come none too soon. Still in its experimental phase for now but when it hits it should be very popular.
[via Gizmodo]
You heard of touch screens now check out touch keys
‘NASA’CAR
This puts a whole new spin on the old “fly low, go fast, turn left” of the sport of air racing.
The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a “3D trackway” just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the ground.
The first “X-Racers” will be built for the series, but it is hoped new teams will soon enter with novel designs.
Events will be staged across the US, culminating in a final in New Mexico
[via BBC, title by Dusty Weasel]
Rocket Racing League