Gizmo Watch

Being in the ranks of an astronaut doesn’t come easy. And sorting those endless instructions and gear knobs on the space shuttle mustn’t be easy too – ask someone whose been in there, he will tell you better. To simplify things in there,...

Taking CD players into the International Space Station, Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization in microgravity in the Saturday morning science. Floating a CD player in microgravity, Pettit shows us how the player spins..

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is about to start a fashion revolution – in space. The astronaut is testing new clothes developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at the Japan Women's University in Tokyo. These clothes have been created to be...

A trip to the ISS is a vacation unlike any other and calls for a camera that’s more than ordinary. When Dr Koichi Wakata, a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut, blasts off in the Space Shuttle Discovery on March 12, he’ll be...

Technology is taking such rapid strides forward at such a blurring pace that what is considered a marvelous novelty turns into a mundane common object within no time. To classify and bunch a set of man-made marvels from a world that is being...

IBM Corp. has stated that it would spend $1.3 billion in cash to acquire Internet Security Systems Inc. ISS conducts network monitoring and analysis services for companies and also helps guard against data theft and other problems with automated...