NEW YORK: The Google Glass headset is bravely going where few consumer-orientated wearables have departed before this week, like the stylish glasses are packaged up and sent out to a team working at the International Space Station.
SpaceX launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida will send the wearable device spaceward, where an ISS team made up of scientists from the Tufts Centre for Regenerative and Developmental Biology will “analyse the regeneration mechanisms of flatworms in the microgravity environment of space”.
Glass will primarily be used in pre-flight integration operations and post-flight operations, according to the Glass Almanac. Acting as an augmented reality assistant to the crew, the goal is to test Glass’s feasibility as a fully-fledged space-faring human interface device
Tesla driverless system to use updated radar technology
WASHINGTON: Electric carmaker Tesla announced Sunday it was upgrading its Autopilot software to use more advanced radar technology. In a...
