<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Scanadu is making fast progress in building one of the most mythical pieces of tech known to geekery. As an entrant in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, the health-tracking device is designed to read your temperature, blood pressure, respiration, and other vital signs, just by holding it to your temple. </p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Google has stoked our collective imagination via relentless promotion of its Google Glass wearable computer in recent months. Thanks to a campaign of Web videos, trade show appearances and blog posts, the search giant has positioned its smartglasses as a hands-free augmented reality gadget that will allow us to share our personal experiences in real time, whether we are skydiving, skiing or handling snakes.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Star Trek universe is a fairly optimistic vision of the future. It’s what we would like it to be – an adventure fueled by advanced technology. In the world of Star Trek technology makes life better and causes few problems.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration -- Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Neil Armstrong in 1969 -- but if you look back over the history of manned happenings outside of the atmosphere, almost all of these moments were driven by government funds. You have to fast-forward all the way to October 4th, 2004, the moment that pilot Brian Binnie crested at an altitude of 112km in SpaceShipOne, to find a similarly important moment in the history of private space flight.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The creators of the new sci-fi movie "After Earth" have launched a competition to encourage creative teenagers to dream up visions to make the world a better place.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The creators of the new sci-fi movie "After Earth" have launched a competition to encourage creative teenagers to dream up visions to make the world a better place. The "After Earth" Challenge, sponsored in part by the X Prize Foundation, involves two phases that focus on robotics, sustainability and space travel.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Humanity took another small step forward yesterday: Virgin Galactic performed a successful powered test flight of its space plane, SpaceShipTwo (or SS2).</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Each year, XPRIZE gathers global thought leaders for a multi-day Visioneering meetup to brainstorm, debate, and prioritize which of the world’s “Grand Challenges” might be solved through incentivized competition.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Our genes harbor many secrets to a long and healthy life. And now scientists are beginning to uncover them.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The future economic growth and competitiveness of the United States depends on our capacity to innovate. Many ideas have emerged from government, industry and academia regarding how best to inspire and support innovation. But nothing spurs creativity and innovation more than a combination of incentive and challenge: a reward for achievement, combined with the urgency of a dare to succeed and the reality that we must race against others. We are at our best when we compete.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00