Star Trek Warp Drive
With the latest installment of the Star Trek franchise packing theaters, researchers are again speculating about the feasibility of building a faster-than-light “warp drive” similar to the one powering Star Trek’s “Enterprise” star ship.

 Obama (Spock)
Our president bears a striking resemblance to the rational “Star Trek” Vulcan whose mixed race made him cultural translator to the universe.

Beam me up Scotty. Maybe not but hey would be cool to have a little piece of star trek geekdom for your room.
I’ve always wondered why there were never seat-belts for each chair on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. I mean, it would save all of that flying around and smashing into things. [...]

Smell a Trekkie a mile away!

Genki Wear, a company specializing in science-fiction-inspired jewelry (mostly in the Buffyverse, it seems), will be releasing three new Star Trek colognes to go along with the reboot of the franchise this year: “Tiberius”, a scent that is “difficult to define and impossible to refuse”; “Red Shirt”, with the brilliant [...]

 
Find your inner dork and hey its completely ok
We attended Comic Con in New York on Saturday. The show was at the Javits center, the same place that hosts the New York Auto Show and Toy Fair. The show was sold out for the weekend, and at times it was too crowded for us to [...]

Bugs In Space. Eww
According to new sources, later this year a Russian spacecraft will set its sights on the Martian moon Phobos, where it will scrape samples for further study. At least ten of the world’s toughest organisms will be going along for the ride in this pioneering experiment sponsored by the nonprofit Planetary Society. [...]

 
Cool Origami
Hawaii resident Won Park’s origami first got our attention with his One Dollar Camera. Then we started browsing through his work online, and we discovered a treasure trove of pictures of his origami projects, including paper versions of the Millennium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise.

 
 
Richard Garriott Heads To Space
 American millionaire Richard Garriott followed in his astronaut father’s footsteps on Sunday, blasting off aboard a Russian rocket to become the world’s sixth space tourist.
Sealed inside the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule together with a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut, Garriott, a renowned videogame developer, was catapulted towards the International Space Station [...]

Let’s face it: spies are cool. And what kid (or adult, for that matter) hasn’t fantasized about fast cars, exotic locations, and nifty gadgets that are the trademarks of the spy-trade?
Well, Wild Planet Toys and Games has come up with a way to make us all spies-of a sort. While they don’t provide an Aston [...]

Protection comes in many forms
Invisibility cloaks that are able to steer light around two dimensional objects have become reality in the last few years. But the first real-world application of the theories that made them possible could be in hiding vulnerable coastlines and offshore platforms from destructive hurricanes and tsunamis.

 
Helicopter designed to be launched from a Sub
Students from the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in cooperation with four students from Pennsylvania State University have developed a submarine deployable helicopter. Their autonomous “Waterspout” is capable of exiting a submarine, floating safely to the water surface, and taking off [...]

Crazy Cool… I want one!!!
The Tanaka Auto Door opens automatically when you stand in front of it. Even better, it only opens just enough to let the individual person come in. Video after the jump.

 
“Big Bang Theory?… Think Again. SIMPLY AMAZING ” Tjames

Not your typical green machine
The final projects of the Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design), developed in partnership with BMW with the goal of creating a car for 2015 interpreting the language evolution and the brand’s philosophy.

 
 Life on the moon as depicted by the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova
On August 6th the DaVinci Institute will be hosting the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova, at its Night with a Futurist event.
In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the [...]

For a few buck extra, bring your whole wedding party along
Space transportation provider Rocketplane Kistler Japan has teamed up with wedding planner First Advantage to begin hosting weddings aboard the Rocketplane XP suborbital spaceplane. A cool 240 million yen ($2.2 million) buys you a wedding ceremony aboard a 1-hour space flight that reaches an altitude [...]

The Dish on ET
Astronomers are banking on a promising new technology to trace extra-terrestrials in the same way that one locates a needle in a haystack.
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) comprises hundreds of small dishes that combine modern, miniaturised electronics and innovative technologies with computer processing.
It endows researchers with the capability to search for possible [...]

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99 bottles of beer from the replicator, 99 bottles of beer…

Open your beer with the starship Enterprise!