however, the TAO Chair takes the seated workout out of the office and puts it in a more relaxing space.
but it will also speed up the prototyping process As well as ISAAC begins work on the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Advanced Composites Project and the Space technology Mission Directoratecomposites for Exploration Upper Stage,
Freedom of design increases the range of panel applications on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces.
and storefronts that were once spaces of production (craftsmen, tailors and so on) become places to consume food,
Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCS funding only one out of 400 requests they get,
###An invisible button is simply an area in space that is##clicked##when a person or object##in this case,
a smartphone##moves into that physical space. It could be as small as a two-inch square on top of a conventional credit card reader,
or Android phone to#know its position in space with centimeter precision. You can think of ibeacon as a version of GPS that works indoors
#Will 3d printing bring space-based solar power to reality? Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy
but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.
and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,
##Our analysis shows we can get orders of magnitude improvement in the stowed volume and mass of space systems,
Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques
##For#space-based solar power (SBSP), there would be two basic steps, Hoyt explained. First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.
##We haven t yet looked in detail at space-based solar, ##Hoyt said. But a just-completed design analysis for a 300-kilowatt orbital solar array verified that Spiderfab can provide the projected tenfold decrease in stowed volume
##explained NASA Apollo 11 lunar landing vehicle manager Hubert Davis, a member of#the Solar High Study Group#of nine former NASA and Apollo program scientists and retired
according to#August 2012 calculationsby NASA Apollo program engineer Philip Chapman, would be $0. 10 to $0. 11 per kilowatt-hour.
##With the success of Nokia in the 90s, it grew our confidence that we could really make it in the tech space,
which Seymourpowell says increases a passenger s sense of independence and control over their own space.
This simple adjustment gives the father more lateral space than almost#any major airline would offer in economy
offering airlines and passengers a##premium##row for those would like to pay more for the space.
Right now, the space is cash-starved and entrepreneurs are spending the vast majority of their time cobbling together financing,
Ted Hesser believes the problem is a mislabeling of the space. He doesn t call it##impact investing##or##social entrepreneurial activity###instead,
Insects are small and nimble enough to get into almost any tight space, so it makes sense to create a#similarly sized drone#for stealth military missions.##
Here are some of the true innovators in this space: Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries around the world.
A right to be forgotten would surely apply differently for public figures as compared with private citizens that are not active in the public space.
Public Market Not Ready for Iot Though still in its early stages, Iot remains a tough space for public investors to gain exposure, especially to
In time or in space, the warehousing of millions of Americans knows no parallels. In keeping with American history,
and can save space and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
hydroponics or aeroponics, and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.
This increases efficiency, not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely, making more efficient use of space.
a space where Torontonians can hang out with felines. I think with people who are independent,
or if they really just hate the idea of sharing space with other people. Despite its futuristic ring
and with its NASA campus headquarters and#Space Act Agreement#funding, it could actually go places.
At that point, they step into the hologram space, which consists of walls with grids on them that the phone uses to track with technology similar to#Google s Tango.
and No. 2 complaints that people have about office space, says Lindsay Baker, vice president of research for Building Robotics,
By conditioning those spaces less we re saving an enormous amount of energy. As someone uses the app,
This result, the volume, is a single term that fits on a space the size of a napkin.
#The next Great Space Race Space-Based Power stations Futurist Thomas Frey: Earth appetite for power continues to grow.
For this reason, the Japan aerospace exploration agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
What most people don realize is that solar panels in space are 10 times more efficient than those on earth
Many other countries won be comfortable with Japan having the world only expertise in building space-based power stations.
Space-based power stations have been the subject of research and a common theme among the sci-fi authors for decades.
system in space. This is about the same output as a typical nuclear power plant. Every year of technological advancement brings a drop in the cost of building it.
most will imagine a space-based solar array powering our energy hungry businesses on earth, but that only part of the equation.
that will grow exponentially over the coming decades much like an Internet of things in space. It has the potential not only to continuously deliver limitless amounts of solar energy to markets On earth,
but also to power itself as well as a range of future space applications. Historically, space missions have been ower paupersconstrained in design by the limitations of power
and the high cost of getting that power. For this reason a wide range of R&d projects have been shelved simply because of their excessive power requirements.
Wireless power transmission Space transportation Construction of large structures in orbit Satellite attitude and orbit control Space-based power generation Power management Of these six challenges,
e already have the ability to perform docking maneuvers with large objects like docking the International space station,
Creating the first space-based power system will be no exception. With U s. influence eroding across Europe and Asia,
a space-based power station has the potential to reinvigorate NASA and give a needed dose of excitement to the thousands of space companies that support it.
China has proven that its aggressive posture can accomplish huge projects in short periods of time,
the new space race has begun just. By Futurist Thomas Fre
#Financial services ripe for disruptive innovation Technology is having a profound impact on so many sectors, creating opportunities,
they know they need a toehold in this space, Bünger says. here are a hundred other areas like that where theye having to compete now to get a toehold in the technology,
and when it senses that it over white space, it turns around and follows the line back the way it came i
The Fairfield, CT-headquartered conglomerate has been pushing hard in the 3d printing and the next-generation manufacturing space.
and Amazon that are are currently active in the space. At the very least, the ever-growing success of bitcoin thus far candidly illustrates that there is indeed a massive demand for anonymity online,
or concert halls any space where you need to control the acoustics. If you had to put a beam somewhere for structural reasons that was going to mess up the sound,
#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.
Like arches in the Roman Coliseum, the shape of all those tiny spaces maximizes strength
"I believe there's a tremendous potential to use these methods to build machines for situations where you need deployability, for example space exploration,
But before these tiny bots travel into space or other harsh environments, the researchers will need to experiment with stiffer and more-durable materials.
by allowing our astronauts to travel longer distances in space and possibly even colonize new planets."
"NASA is researching different ways to produce oxygen for long-distance space journeys to let us live in space.
This material could allow us to explore space much further than we can now.""The man-made leaf,
That's why a Canadian team exploring Antarctica this month is toting Astroskin with it The Human body in Space:
and will share the data with the CSA for possible use on future space missions and other applications.
when Astroskin could fly in space, but says it could be used on the International space station during future missions.
The orbiting complex is expected to last until at least 2024. Other organizations are also developing advanced garments for use in space.
Scientists with the European space agency and other institutions, for example, are working on a tight-fitting"skinsuit"that could help astronauts combat the back problems that are a common consequence of long-term spaceflight l
#High-tech Exosuit gives divers access to unexplored ocean canyons Michael Lombardi the dive safety officer for the American Museum of Natural history trains in the Exosuit.
and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces lead researcher Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division said in a news release.
To dive, submarines fill the space between the two shells with water, changing the ship's density
Earlier this week the 64-year-old billionaire announced a partnership with satellite-system designers Oneweb to use Virgin galactic's Launcherone rocket to create a massive satellite constellation in space.
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
Satellite launches are expected to begin in 2017 According to Spacenews Oneweb will overcome the engineering challenge of interference from broadcast satellites already in space with a technique called progressive pitch
what have traditionally been considered intangible benefits such as air pollution property values and recreational space. It plugs right in to the Autocad that many civil engineers use.
or hard drives reliant on electrons'intrinsic spin are getting packed into smaller and smaller spaces. The limit was thought to be set:
But now, researchers at Stanford university in Palo alto, California, have used another feature of the electron its tendency to bounce probabilistically between different quantum states to create holograms that pack information into subatomic spaces.
Pushing the limit The researchers have built on a tradition of inscribing information in small spaces that began
when researchers at IBM manipulated individual xenon atoms on a nickel plate to spell out the letters'IBM'across a space just a dozen nanometres wide2.
And a concentration of electrons in space is, in essence, a wire. That led study co-author Hari Manoharan to think about using the holograms as stackable quantum circuits
until the same space is covered with many fewer, but much larger trees. For this reason, they only looked at plots where the forest was more than 200 years old parts of the forest spared from the axe
and adds even more bulk to the internal space. Pruessmann, although aware of the commercial interest for clinical MRI, sees wider applications for the new technique."
tends to absorb sunlight rather than scattering it back into space. This means that it warms the troposphere in much the same way as carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The group now hopes to put the Hi-C on a next-generation spacecraft that will monitor the Sun for longer periods of time e
or so known Martian meteorites#those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet,
That is not a surprise, given the map of hydrogen (a stand-in for water) generated by an instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiting spacecraft and the presence of small amounts of water in younger Martian meteorites
says Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.##The new ring persisted,
The researchers used NASA s Kepler space telescope to identify the three planets orbiting Kepler 37, a star some 200 light-years away that is somewhat smaller than the sun. The spacecraft monitors more than 150,000 stars in the Milky way
and distributed in laboratory space in Newhouse, Scotland, that was closed by Merck in 2010. Starting this July or August
Such things have included everything from spare parts for the International space station above to the beef on our dinner plates to the organs inside our bodies.
Where the Planck spacecraft, watching the sky from a vantage point 1. 5#million kilometres away,
NASA/WMAP SCIENCE TEAMIT was not until the launch of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft that astronomers could begin to see variations in the background, at levels of 1 part in 100,000.
and why we cannot detect any curvature in the fabric of space (other than the tiny indentations caused by massive objects such as black holes).
That transition allowed photons to travel unimpeded through space, in a pattern that carried the echoes of inflation.
two space-based experiments#the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)# have mapped the tiny temperature variations within it.
The asymmetry"defines a preferred direction in space, which is an extremely strange result, says Efstathiou.
Within the immersive mixed/virtual reality space of Brainx3 users can explore and analysis dynamical activity patterns of brain networks
#Smog Harvested from Tower Made into Jewelry A Smog Free Tower that stands 23 feet tall is being built to scrub pollution out of the air in parks and other public outdoor spaces in Rotterdam, The netherlands.
and space. think this work is a real advance, says materials scientist Daniel Jaque at the Autonomous University of Madrid,
Next Mars rovers get a speed boost IT'S time for Martian rovers to put the pedal to the metal.
the Curiosity rover our best on the Red planet only covers about 200 metres per day. That's because when a rover encounters an obstacle it can't negotiate by itself it must wait for instructions from its minders On earth a huge waste of time.
If all goes well Seeker could help the European space agency's Exomars rover which is planned for launch in 2018 find its way across vast stretches of Martian soil.
Next Mars rovers get a speed boost IT'S time for Martian rovers to put the pedal to the metal.
the Curiosity rover our best on the Red planet only covers about 200 metres per day. That's because when a rover encounters an obstacle it can't negotiate by itself it must wait for instructions from its minders On earth a huge waste of time.
If all goes well Seeker could help the European space agency's Exomars rover which is planned for launch in 2018 find its way across vast stretches of Martian soil.
#China set to launch probe on round trip to the moon China is planning to launch an uncrewed spacecraft on a quick jaunt around the moon in a test of technology designed to return rocks from the lunar surface to Earth.
The spacecraft will also carry experiments to test what happens to bacteria and plants exposed to radiation beyond low Earth orbit.
China has partnered also with a Luxembourg-based firm called Luxspace to send a tiny spacecraft called the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission around the moon.
#Spacecraft seek geysers without human help When the Rosetta spacecraft sends its lander to the surface of a comet on 12 november the lander will follow prearranged orders from Earth to touch down safely
and send data home for analysis . But future spacecraft may be able to do it all on their own.
Kiri Wagstaff and her colleagues at the Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California have developed software that can identify a plume of water
Comets asteroids and icy moons have shown all signs of venting plumes into space. But because these bodies are far from Earth
The more the spacecraft can do without waiting for communication with Earth the better they can explore especially
#Mini MRI to check bone health on space station Astronauts may soon have a portable MRI machine to keep an eye on their muscles and bones during a spell on the International space station.
So Sarty and his colleagues at MRI manufacturer MRI-Tech Canada of Calgary Alberta and space flight hardware maker Com Dev International of Cambridge Ontario have developed a technique called Transmit Array Spatial Encoding
which saves us considerable weight making it suitable for space flight Sarty told New Scientist. It also leaks very little magnetism outside of its enclosure so it won't interfere with other experiments on the ISS.
While a system based on permanent magnets sounds perfect for use in space where power is scarce the Canadians will have their work cut out expanding the technology On earth predicts David Taylor founder of scanner-maker MR Solutions in Guildford UK.
An oddity of quantum theory that says that the vacuum of space is not truly empty
The hypersensitive methane detector on NASA's Mars rover curiosity is being repurposed to ferret out gas leaks On earth.
#World's first space detective agency launched IN THE MIDDLE of a boundary squabble with your neighbour? Want to find out who is dumping waste near your house?
You need to call the space detectives. Satellite imaging specialist Raymond Harris and space lawyer Raymond Purdy both at University college London have launched just Air & Space Evidence Ltd of London the world's first space detective agency.
The pair intend to use their combined experience of space-based photographic databases and Earth observation privacy law to ensure that people can wield authentic imagery that stands up in court.
They want everyone to have the chance to use space imagery to settle legal disputes from homeowners disputing garden boundaries to businesses fighting vehicle theft.
Insurers might find it useful in investigating fraud and councils in tackling environmental assaults such as waste incineration or illegal logging and quarrying.
The space detectives will use their expertise in commissioning space images to order and their familiarity with the databases of space image suppliers like Digital Globe of Longmont Colorado.
We can make a difference by ensuring space images have audit trails that stand up says Purdy.
and Skybox Imaging make inexpensive space imagery more widely available. Paul Champion a private investigator based in Cardiff UK
and a governor of the Association of British Investigators says the notion of space-based detection is fascinating.
There is a need for space detectives says Joanne Wheeler a space lawyer at Bird & Bird in London because finding the right pictures takes a lot of work.
If you know what you might want a space detective agency would be a great service.
This article appeared in print under the headline The space detectivesleader Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spie e
#Swedish space rock may be piece of early life puzzle A fossil meteorite unlike anything seen before has been uncovered in a Swedish quarry.
and surface profile Terra Recovery cofounder Greg Fitzgerald said last week at a meeting of the UK government's space business advocacy group in London.
#Crystal cocoons kept bacteria safe in space ASTEROIDS have a killer reputation taking the blame for death and destruction on massive scales.
But results fresh from a space experiment show ancient impacts may have been vital for cradling the first life On earth.
but there have been countless space rock strikes in Earth's history. That raised a whole bunch of questions about
As part of the European space agency's EXPOSE mission the team sent some of the crater rocks to the International space station (ISS.
This article appeared in print under the headline Space rock strikes protected early lif f
#Spacex unveils sleek reusable Dragon crew capsule First cargo now crew the uber-modern space taxi known as the Dragon V2 is ready for passengers.
and coloured lights Spacex CEO Elon musk gave the world its first glimpse of the upgraded Dragon spacecraft.
NASA is already using an unpiloted version of Dragon to send cargo to the International space station and return valuable gear and scientific experiments.
The spacecraft can dock itself to the ISS without help from the space station's robotic arm.
which will allow astronauts to set the spacecraft down on solid ground. The current version of Dragon deploys a parachute as it descends
which brings Spacex a step closer to realising its goal of developing spacecraft that are fully and rapidly reusable.
and spacecraft we will never have true access to space says Musk. Like passengers in today's commercial aeroplanes riders of the Dragon V2 won't get much leg room in the capsule's tight quarters.
But the craft does include touchscreen interfaces to control the spacecraft as well as manual buttons for critical functions that would be needed in case of emergency.
When the Dragon V2 does launch with its first commercial crew the face of space travel is going to change.
It will no longer be heroic to go to space it will become a commodity and it's about time says John Logsdon a space policy expert at George washington University's Elliott School of International affairs in WASHINGTON DC.
What will count is what people do once they get there e
#Baby model cosmos grows up to look like the real thing A supercomputer simulation has tracked the evolution of the universe from a mere 12 million years after the big bang until the present day.
He and his colleagues modelled a cube of space with sides that stretched to 347 million light years a fraction of the size of the observable universe today.
Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
The move is a step up from a largely symbolic US ban on cooperating with Russia in space earlier this month.
although the International space station was excluded from the ban. NASA only has a few smaller-scale joint activities with Russia such as an instrument aboard its Curiosity Mars rover
but there are no signs these have been affected by the boycott t
#Supernova found aligned with galactic magnifying glass A perfectly arranged exploding star and distant galaxy have created together a cosmic magnifying glass that could improve our understanding of the universe's expansion and dark matter.
which suggests that space expanded faster than the speed of light in the first moments after the universe's birth.
This is not a trailer for an alien invasion movie NASA is gearing up to conduct the first test flight of a disc-shaped spacecraft designed to safely land heavy loads
and crashing is stopping says Allen Chen at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California who oversaw the successful landing of the one-tonne Curiosity rover in 2012.
which is just 1 per cent as dense as Earth's. Unfortunately rocket-powered landings are out of the question too as the atmosphere is still just thick enough to buffet incoming spacecraft with more turbulence than thrusters can accommodate.
These areas have even less air available for slowing down a spacecraft via drag and so have been inaccessible with current technology.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew through the geysers and detected water salts and carbon-based molecules.
which makes it difficult for spacecraft to operate. For now Europa is slightly ahead in terms of funding.
#NASA's Russia boycott may revitalise US space leadership So NASA has been dragged into the fallout over Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
An internal memo made public this week revealed the space agency has suspended contact with Russia except for that concerning International space station (ISS) operations.
and human spaceflight programme and works with many other countries including Russia in space. When the Soviet union collapsed
and the cold war ended the US pragmatically merged its human spaceflight programme specifically the ISS programme with the Soviet Mir space station programme inherited by the new Russian state.
The pragmatic intent was to keep lots of otherwise potentially unemployed Russian scientists and engineers from taking jobs in countries with dubious space programmes.
After all space technology is largely dual use of value to both military and civilian communities. The basics of rocket technology and missile technology are largely symbiotic.
Then after spending decades building the ISS the US cancelled the space shuttle the vehicle originally intended for transport to the ISS as part of its post-Apollo programme.
The first resident crew arrived at the ISS in 2000 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft
It would be hypocritical to say the least for the US to ban bilateral space relations with China over general displeasure with its form of government
and rethinking the propensity of using space as a foreign policy surrogate. The bigger issue however is how to reassert US space leadership.
Without finally dealing with that the US may increasingly find itself being pushed around in space e
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