Micro-Space

Micro-Space, Inc. (a Colorado Corporation) has a 31 year history of producing “World Class”, high tech products for both large and small customers in niche markets. To compete with larger vendors, a small company needs dexterity, customer focus and the ability to build on its accomplishments using each as a module to be employed in new applications. This approach is central to our Google Lunar X PRIZE plan. But it also keeps us from limiting our thoughts and comments to this application of our hardware. With modest adaptation any successful Google Lunar X PRIZE system can serve on Mars, and many will approach the needs of an Ultralight Human Moon Lander.
The launch vehicle and transfer stage of any Google Lunar X PRIZE system can land twice the payload on Mars, even after subtracting the heat shield mass! This greatly expands the market for these systems.

Eliminating Barriers and Improving the Affordability of Healthcare

Enabling Organizations to Effectively Share Health Information

While U.S. healthcare is highly regarded internationally, it faces some significant challenges. In the U.S., healthcare costs are 50 percent higher than those for any other industrialized country; medical errors cause serious complications and deaths; less than 65 percent of patients receive critical recommended care; millions of Americans are uninsured; and the aging population requires substantially more care.
Information technology has the promise to improve the cost, quality and safety of healthcare delivery for individuals and for community populations. Information technology is increasingly used to collect, store and share healthcare information and has become a critical component of healthcare delivery. For healthcare information to best support individual patients and the public health, it must be shared across diverse systems. Harmonization of the many standards currently employed by these systems is critical.
This harmonization is the thrust of a new collaboration which brings together standards expertise from ANSI and the healthcare information expertise of HIMSS. ATI, Booz-Allen-Hamilton and many other stakeholders from the technical and medical fields will participate in building a set of standards to enable effective sharing of healthcare information. Broad industry involvement will provide a distributed testbed for real-world deployment and analysis.
Providing Technology to Improve Care in Rural and Underserved Communities
ATI is providing a web-based application, developed by Joslin Diabetes Center, to enhance care team coordination and adherence to best clinical practices to help the patient more effectively manage diabetes. ATI is working with Joslin, CareSouth Carolina, the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and Estenda Solutions on this effort. To integrate with existing systems, a standards-based interface extracts data from the CareSouth patient registry and medical management system.
ATI is providing technology to rural and minority patients to prevent diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of adult-onset blindness. ATI is working with the Orangeburg Family Health Center and HealthCare Outreach to provide digital retinal imaging diagnostics to identify retinopathy early enough to prevent blindness. ATI plans work with other Community Health Centers (CHCs) on diabetes and other clinical applications. For example, ATI and Joslin are developing plans to deploy mobile technology to provide eye-care coverage for CHCs

Street legal flying car

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The ParaJet SkyCar, invented by Giles Cardozo, is the world’s first street legal plying car. The car uses a nylon “Paramenia Reflex” wing to control its flight.

Plans unveiled for world's first super-green superyacht

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A 23-year-old British student has designed a "super-green superyacht" built using only sustainable materials and which produces virtually no carbon emissions.

"Soliloquy's" unique eco-luxury design allows the boat to run on two different sources of sustainable energy by incorporating 600 square meters of solar panels on the exterior of the boat and giant rigid "wings" that function like sails.
Although the 58-meter boat has yet to be built, it would be able to run either on wind energy via the wings (known as "rigid-wing solarsails"), solar power supplied by the panels or a combination of the two.
An equivalent-sized superyacht burns anywhere between 250 and 600 liters of marine diesel per hour, depending on speed and fuel efficiency, and emits three times that in CO2 emissions, according to British yachting carbon offset company, Yacht Carbon Offset. Some of the biggest SUVs on the road burn around 20 liters of fuel per hour.
Both the panels and solarsails -- developed by Australian company Solar Sailor -- on the vessel can fold up or completely stretch out depending on which energy source is in use, changing the yacht's shape.
"I wanted to prove that eco-luxury no longer has to be an oxymoron and doesn't have to make a yacht more expensive," designer Alastair Callender, a life-long sailing fanatic, told CNN.

Today's featured picture

The New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States, is a steel arch bridge that crosses the New River. It opened in 1977 and is the longest and highest steel arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere at 3,030 feet (920 m) long and 876 feet (267 m) high. It is home to the annual Bridge Day, an event in which the bridge is closed to vehicles and participants are allowed to BASE jump to the valley floor below.