Television for the future

Television for the future

The television at the corner of your living room, or attached to the wall of your bedroom, is a common feature in virtually everyone's home. Viewers in the space station are just as enthusiastic about their ubiquitous TV sets as consumers anywhere else in the globe. But what sort of televisions will...
Mobile phones and space apps

Mobile phones and space apps

Mobile phones have come a long way. You only have to look at archive footage from the 1980s to see business people catching up on news while holding massive, unwieldy, brick-sized objects. Phones have become steadily more compact, sleeker in design and easier to pop inside a pocket or in a handbag c...
Industrial robots in space

Industrial robots in space

The world is becoming increasingly focused on ecological matters. The global marketplace is all about the better utilization of existing resources. As a specialist in the field of robotics and automation technology, KUKA Robotics is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial robots. With its wid...
Space elevators

Space elevators

A space elevator is imagined to be a cable fixed to the equator and reaching into space. A space elevator could be a good way to have  planet-to-space transportation needed in the future for missions, Earth protection with a planet wide scaffold type structure. The main space elevator component woul...
3D printing for space

3D printing for space

So, while 3D printing may be the future we still need to figure how we're gonna get the printer aka robot into space. Probably Mars or the Moon first as we need them to construct bases and shelters from the material there as it's too costly to take our own building material from here on Earth. The...
Surprising facts about technology

Surprising facts about technology

If you feel your eyes getting heavy next time you are staring at the computer monitor then that's because they are being put under more than twice the strain as usual. You blink roughly 7 times a minute while working on a laptop, PC or tablet, while the normal rate is 20 blinks per minute.  If your...
Wearable technology

Wearable technology

Wearable technology is being massively touted as the future for communication, entertainment and personal computing and, certainly, that would seem to follow all recent trends. Since the 1980s, technology has become smaller and smaller and, so, the idea of having all your contacts and communication...
Voyager - a mission to deep space

Voyager - a mission to deep space

Voyager 1, NASA's deep space probe, is humankind's most distant object. Last year it achieved the milestone of departing Earth's solar system and entering interstellar space – the unimaginable vacuum between our son and the next nearest stars. Voyager - a mission to deep space Voyager 1, NASA's dee...