Orion Jones

Orion Jones

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3D printers have moved quickly from the industrial scale to home use but, despite futurists' claims to the contrary, they are not quite ready to make you a tea, earl gray, hot. 
The chipmaker has announced a $100 million fund to support investment in 'connected cars', an innovation that will lead both the computing and automobile industries in the years ahead. 
Novel mobile phone chargers are on display at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, demonstrating innovative fixes to the growing energy requirement of our mobile devices. 
A new point-and-shoot camera captures light rays instead of pixels which allows you to focus the image after you have taken it, changing which part of the photo you want to emphasize. 
The United Nations has raised the profile of asteroid 2011 AG5 which, measuring 460 feet wide, could be set on a collision course with Earth if it is further influenced by the planet's gravity. 
Two American physicists have put forward a new theory of how the first planets formed which reverses many aspects of the old model left unchanged for nearly 40 years. 
Although some counterintuitive thinking was necessary to realize that planet GJ 1214b is full of water, scientists now believe there is a greater hope for extraterrestrial life than ever before.