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Apart from the Black Hole, the new black material developed by NASA may be the most-efficient material to absorb light. It’s a special coating blacker than ordinary black materials, featuring an outstanding ability to absorb almost all the light that hit it. Through the visible spectrum it absorbs about 99.5 percent of the light hitting it, and at the ultraviolet and infrared ends the black coating sucks up to 98 percent of light. The coating is made from carbon nanotubes, and can be applied to many types of materials to form an absorbent coating on them.

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A tour by airplanes never lets us feel safe enough, even though many airlines announce to have adopted advanced technologies and managements. But optimistically I believe this self-healing “magic skin” will make a change. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Just look at the NASA’s Puffin Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft, it’s obviously another product meant for the most-wanted of your grocery lists. It features a vertical-takeoff and allows the pilot to fly with a prone position. Electrically propelled, Puffin can cruise at a speed of 150 mph and sprint at more like 300 miles per hour. Other features about it also include non carbon emission and the ultra quiet design.

It would be nice to see this practical concept hit the marketplace instead of the limited choice we have to choose from these days.

This is a NASA toilet manufactured by RSC Energia from Russia, whose price is 19 million dollar. It could recycle the dejections of cosmonauts into drinkable water. Oh, my God. You wanna try?