MEXICO: What has spaceflight ever done for us? A hell of a lot, actually – and aside from trying to get humans to Mars, NASA’s technology has trickled down to a host of wearable gadgets.
NASA makes a huge investment in technology and each year it releases a report called Spinoff. This details all of the innovations that have been developed as a result of space travel, such as Sony’s latest ‘magnetic fluid’ speakers to more realistic 3D mapping in video games like SSX.