by Michael Belfiore | May 28, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Science fiction can do more than predict the technologies of the future. It can inspire them as well. Case in point, the medical diagnostic devices built for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE. The competition seeks to recreate the gizmo of the Star Trek TV and movie...
by Michael Belfiore | May 14, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Bloomberg Businessweek has my writeup in the May 11-17, 2015 issue on Top Flight’s hybrid power drones. A gasoline engine on board charges the batteries that run the rotors, giving the drones 2 hours or more of flight time versus the 15-30 minutes more typical...
by Michael Belfiore | May 6, 2015 | Articles
This morning at about 9 a.m. Eastern Time, SpaceX launched the crew version of its Dragon space capsule for the first time. The capsule launched from a pad at Cape Canaveral using its onboard Super Drago rocket engines. The flight only lasted a minute and half, during...
