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1. NASA to Mars
via The Verge
NASA has revealed the module that could be on its way to Mars…in 9 years. The Orion module arrived in Florida this week, and will undergo tests before a trial flight in a couple of years. Those must be some stringent tests! The heat is on, too, as we reported back in May – there are lots of people out there willing to try and get to Mars (or at least, get tourists in space) before them.
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2. Spray on batteries
I remember the time when getting a set of these was the ultimate in tech geekism. Now my remote controlled car wasn’t going to eat up those allowance-gobbling AA’s every 5 minutes. All I had to do was wait 3 weeks for them to charge….well, overnight – but it felt like 3 weeks. Now, however, with the passage of time and the application of some super-sized brains, some boffins have come up with a way to spray paint the layers needed to make a battery on virtually any surface, making for implausibly thin rechargeable energy givers. Awesome, but I think I’ll let them explain:
via Auto Evolution (via Rice University)
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3. Healthy pizza?
Finally for today, as it’s the weekend and time to relax a little, how about a little pizza? How about a pizza you can eat every single day?
via Can-India
Scientists in Scotland have developed a (non-deep fried) pizza that ‘are said to contain 30% of an adult’s guideline daily amount of vitamins and minerals’. Wow. Some of the ingredients used are a little left field, though – seaweed instead of salt, for example. By just giving a regular pizza a new twist, the chap genius behind the magic, Professor Mike Lean (really, he’s called Lean, and he developed a healthy food) reckons he can reduce health problems. Fair play to him, and I can’t wait to try one of his pizzas, although the delivery charge might be a little hefty.
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That’s the tech stories that have caught my eye today, how about you? Got anything to add? Drop me a link in the comments, or use Twitter to get in touch.