by Michael Belfiore | Oct 2, 2015 | Articles, Blog
The much-anticipated movie The Martian opens today, and I plan to be there, come hell or high water (and we might actually get some of that here in New York!). The book is amazing hard sf, and the movie promises to be more of the same. Hopefully, it continues a recent...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 17, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Yesterday at a press conference in the Flatiron district in NYC, I and a few other journalists were treated to a showing and presentation of some spectacular video footage of the Earth from space by UrtheCast. From my report for Popular Mechanics, published today:...
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...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 29, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Like it or not, the drones are coming. Delivery services, construction and real estate companies, farmers, and of course photographers and filmmakers will all use them extensively—just as soon as government regulators clear the way. One of the technical challenges...
