Friday, 13 September 2013

Voyager 1 embarks on historic journey into interstellar space

 "NASA‘s Voyager 1 spacecraft is now officially the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager is in a transitional region immediately outside the solar bubble, where some effects from our sun are still evident." Kurzweil.AI News.

Voyager 1 embarks on historic journey into interstellar space

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

SECURITY: "Nymi wristband uses your heartbeat as a password" (GIZMAG)

"If someone says that they want to steal your heart, be careful. They may be trying to get into your computer files. The Toronto-based biometrics company Bionym wants to replace old-fashioned passwords with Nymi; a bracelet that uses the wearer’s heartbeat in place of passwords. According to the developers, the system delivers a secure and convenient means of identification that also provides the potential to control devices using gestures." (David Szondy, GIZMAG)

Monday, 2 September 2013

SPACE: SpaceFab: 3D printing and robotic assembly in space

"SpiderFab, a series of technologies under development by Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI), combines 3D printing and robotic assembly to build and create spaceship components and structures in orbit. The groundbreaking systems are being designed to enable on-orbit construction of antennas, booms, solar arrays, trusses and other multifunctional components, ten to hundreds of times larger than currently possible with existing technology".
http://www.gizmag.com/spacefab-3d-printing-in-space/28898/