You will be able to pre-order clothes folding robots starting in 5 days and 5 hours from foldimate.com. On January 7th, 2018 at 5pm PST during CES UNVEILED, Foldimate will be showing their improved design for the first time and officially opening Early Pre-Orders. The German appliance manufacturing giant BSH is in the early stages …
Ethereum hit a high of $914 this morning. Most of the top 20 digital currencies are in the green today, and the market cap for all cryptocurrencies is closing on a new record, standing at $645 billion Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …
Jan 2, 2018 2:26 a.m. — Nine people were killed overnight, Iranian state television reported, raising the overall death toll to more than 20 since the protests began last week. Jan 1, 2018 Andrew Peek, U.S. State Department deputy assistant secretary for Iraq and Iran, tells VOA that there could be sanctions against those who …
A guest post by Joseph Friedlander Elon Musk’s new 150 ton payload class rocket, IF usable as described by Brian Wang in various posts here on Next Big Future, https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/spacex-bfr-and-developing-the-high-ground-is-the-geopolitical-game-changer.html https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/spacex-bfr-to-be-lower-cost-than-falcon-1-at-7-million-per-launch.html https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/exponential-industrialization-of-space-is-more-important-than-combat-lasers-and-hypersonic-fighters.html Spacex BFR construction will start in 4 to 6 months. would have bigger than Saturn V payloads plus the magic of reusuability. How …
1. Universe Today – Mysterious Filament is Stretching Down Towards the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Using a pioneering technique, a team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) recently produced the highest-quality images of the Milky Way’s black hole. Above – A radio image from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large …
The plasma magnet sail engine is little more than 2 pairs of charged rotating coils and is therefore extremely simple and inexpensive. A fully powered plasma magnet sail using a small nuclear power source could accelerate at 0.5G and reach 400-700 km/sec (0.2% of lightspeed) in half a day. (H/T Centauri Dreams) * Carrying a …
Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) is planning a $2 billion IPO in Shenzhen. The firm was aiming for the IPO to be completed by the end of June 2018. CATL plans to use the funds from the IPO to build two new battery plants, including a giant 24 gigawatt hour (GWh) …
Global electric car sales finished November 2017 with a new record of 141,000 sales for the month which is an increase of 72% against November 2016. January to November sales passed 1 million to reach 1,039,114 with December figures still to come. Nextbigfuture projects global December 2017 electric car sales at 160,000. This would put …
Solid Power, a leading developer of solid-state rechargeable batteries announced a partnership with the BMW Group on Dec 18, 2017. Solid Power’s solid-state batteries contain no liquid electrolyte. Instead, they are comprised of proprietary inorganic materials producing a product with higher energy density, without volatile or flammable components. Solid State batteries provide substantially higher energy …
The second release of Gaia galactic mapping data is planned for April 2018. It will contain measurements of their parallax, which quantifies a star’s distance from us, and of their motion across the sky. Astronomers are eagerly awaiting this unprecedented data set to delve into the present and past mysteries of our Galaxy and its …
Japan will convert two helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers by enabling them to launch F35B stealth fighters. South Korea and Japan are considering having F-35B stealth aircraft launch from the deck of amphibious assault ships. The F-35B — a fighter jet capable of short takeoffs and vertical landings — would be used on navy vessels …