Suzuki made quite a nice move at the Tokyo Auto Show, launching two very neat concept cars models. I’m talking about the Pixy and the SSC. The Pixy (pictured below) is a personal mobility vehicle, designed for one person, while the SSC is some sort of carrier that can transport up to two Pixy’s at [...]

“Galactic Suite” is the first project of a hotel in space and will be launched in 2012. The Space Hotel offers a three day journey far from mother Earth at a cost of 4 million dollars. The tourists will travel around the world in 80 minutes, and will admire the sun rise 15 times a [...]

  Spaceport America from New Mexico is the future home of Virgin Galactic, a company looking to start offering commercial space flights to tourists starting from 2010 as I understood. Construction of the spaceport will begin in 2008. Above you can see how the terminal will look like, and below you can see a CGI rendering of the [...]

One of the projects that seem interesting when it comes to energy is the one that the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) and Osaka University are working on. It’s about a device that converts sunlight to laser light, and it does it four times better then any previous attempts. This laser light is then sent to Earth [...]

I love it every time news come in of new innovations regarding robots. That piece about the South Korean robot city really made me smile, and not because I think we’re heading towards a war with the robots (I’m pretty sure some fail safe mechanisms will be in place by the time society becomes that [...]

UK and US astronomers in cooperation managed to snap the clearest photos of space taken to date. The images are twice as clear as those taken by the Hubble telescope. They were taken with the help of a new adaptive system, developed by Caltech and Cambridge teams in cooperation, which was mounted at the Mount [...]

The 3D Holographic Display developed by USC researchers. Video and description.

Apparently, South Korea, home of many embracing new technology, plans to build a Robot City, a place dedicated only to the construction, research and development of robots.It will cost them $530 million and it will start in 2009. For some reason I’m betting it will become a major tourist attraction for geeks from around the [...]

Land Walker prototype from Japan – Video.