You can always incrementally improve your office (i.e., improve the weakest, missing, or most used aspects of your space). NASA will be more concentrated in the work if anything weight can be reduced in the outer space. There are devices that let you speak phrases in English and it will spit back to you the same rhetoric in a specified language. When “Star Trek: The Next Generation” thrust the love of everything “Star Trek” back into popular culture, the quirky Mr. Spock and crass Bones McCoy and others were supplanted by a new cast. Though it may sound far-fetched, in reality, similar technology exists that may someday bring sight back to the blind. For example, we may use your Prime Video Watch history to personalize the ads we show you on our Stores or on Fire TV. Sure, these telepresence kits are much more advanced than anything drummed up on “Star Trek,” but perhaps that’s because the show sparked our imagination so many years ago. One of the most popular characters on the new show was engineer Geordi LaForge. What made Geordi unique, perhaps even mysterious, was his funky eyewear. Geordi was blind, but after a surgical operation and aided through the use of a device called VISOR (Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement), Geordi could see throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.

At 400 nm, we see a color between violet and blue named indigo. Variations in chemistry, transparency, shape and/or temperature might explain the color differences. It’s just as convenient for working and sharing as Google Docs, but you get more file extension options, so it might be more useful for sharing with people who use offline Microsoft products as well. For instance, the people in boardroom A will see the people on the screen in boardroom B as though they are sitting across the table from them. Some people seem to have it all together and plan their menus a month at a time. Spacewalk no cakewalk: A little more than a month after completing a six-hour spacewalk to repair a faulty circuit breaker, the two-man crew of the International Space Station is preparing to step out into space again — this time to prepare the station to dock with new cargo craft from the European Space Agency.

While the beams used in optical tweezers aren’t strong enough to dock the space shuttle to the International Space Station, it’s a start in that direction. Others are full-scale and big enough to test full-sized vehicles. It’s not good enough to pass the driving test (normal vision is considered 20/20) but it’s good enough to read billboards and go about your day without the aid of a seeing-eye dog. Also, instrumented crash test dummies were in the airplane for the impact, and provided valuable research into other aspects of crash survivability for the occupants. Lundin, Laura. “Air Force testing new transparent armor.” U.S. In some cases, large vessels have a tractor beam strong enough to prevent smaller vessels from escaping the gravitational force. Using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, this device would be sensitive enough to measure samples of as few as 10 possible infectious bacteria. Mick, Jason. “New “miracle diagnosis” handheld medical scanner 800 times more sensitive than full-size scanners.” Daily Tech.

Meanwhile, researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a small device that utilizes similar technology found in MRI machines that non-invasively inspect the body. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Scientists at Loughborough University in England use photoplethysmography technology in a handheld device that can monitor the functions of the heart. Scientists have harnessed small lasers into beams capable of manipulating molecules and moving them with precision. Light enters the camera and is processed through a small wireless computer, which then broadcasts it as infrared LED images on the inside of the glasses. The characters in “Star Trek” relied on a small device that when spoken into, would translate the words into English. If the fan would prefer to be cremated, the company also plans to offer a “Star Trek” urn as well. And if your users do a lot of searching for documents, Google’s search capabilities for Google Drive easily outstrip what Microsoft 365 has to offer. Still, it needs a lot of storage pods for fuel in order to efficiently travel the solar system. I think it looks a lot better now and it still functions just as well!