This Week in the Future, April 25-29, 2011
The future is going to be amazing. A settlement on the moon, renewably-powered coffee roasters, and the startling ability to...
The future is going to be amazing. A settlement on the moon, renewably-powered coffee roasters, and the startling ability to drink coffee while in a space suit. And you can have all that futurey goodness on a t-shirt–just keep reading.
The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we’re @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the Future tweet. One of those lucky retweeters will be chosen to receive a custom t-shirt with this week’s Baarbarian illustration on it, thus making the winner entirely too cool for their school, or place of business, or couch. (Those who would rather just buy the t-shirt can do that here.) The stories pictured therein:
- A Five-and-a-Half-Ton Solar Array for a Better Cup of Joe
- China Announces Plan to Build a Manned Space Station of its Own Within Ten Years
- You Built What? A Motorized Easy Chair to Roar Around Campus
- New Bill Directs NASA Back to the Moon By 2022, With Permanent Habitation In Mind
And don’t forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:
- FIRST Robot Competition Showcases Geekiness, Ingenuity and the Dreams of 12,000 Kids
- 2020 Vision: A Look Forward To The Promises of a Truly Amazing Year
- At The 2011 New York Auto Show, Exciting New Signs of Life
- Testing the Goods: Hasbro’s My3D Goggles Turn Your iPhone Into a 3-D Gaming Powerhouse
- Gray Matter Video: They Sure Don’t Make Pyrex Like They Used To
- Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft
- Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers
- The World’s Biggest Space Experiment Launches Tomorrow, Ready to Find Dark Matter and Alternate Universes
- Hundreds of Miles of Wind Farms, Networked Under the Sea
- New Jerseyites Hate New Solar Panels, Brand Them “Hideous”
- Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Quirkiest DIY Projects
- Fiber-Optic Transatlantic Cable Could Save Milliseconds, Millions by Speeding Data to Stock Traders