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In 2021, ESA plans to launch the e.DeOrbit mission, which is aimed at cleaning up space debris. The agency has now announced plans to examine the potential for the mission to use space harpoons to capture large items, such as derelict satellites and the upper stages of rockets.

On the latest Russian Soyuz capsule to dock with the station, NASA sent along a pair of high-tech ForceShoes to monitor astronauts as they exercise to make sure they get the full benefits of their workouts.

Reseachers at Harvard University have developed a way to 3D-print a cellular composite with record lightness and stiffness using an epoxy resin. This could lead to the development of new lightweight architectures for more efficient wind turbines, faster cars, and lighter airplanes.

Nobody likes tangled, kinked cables, but you know what they do like? Credit card-sized devices, that they can keep in their wallet. Well, Thinium’s new Charge is a credit card-format smartphone wall charger, that does away with cables.

Portable scanners have been around for a while now, with devices like the Magic Wand and Doxie Go, and they continue to shrink in size. With its new PocketScan, Swiss-based software company Dacuda is now claiming to have developed the world's smallest wireless scanner.

Virtual reality is all the rage these days. Well, apart from the fact that you can't yet buy any of the most talked-about VR hardware. But if a so-crazy-it-might-work Google project has its way, we might all soon be walking around with homemade VR headsets made on the cheap. Meet Google Cardboard.

The FDA has cleared the way for the ReWalk exoskeleton to be sold for personal use in the US, making it the first motorized exoskeleton designed for people with lower body paralysis due to spinal cord injury to be cleared for personal use in the US.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed LiveLight, a machine learning algorithm that, without human supervision, can automatically scan through a video, understand what's happening and cut out the repetitive and boring parts, saving you plenty of uneventful viewing time.

Two new lifelike (some might even say positively creepy) robot creations of Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro have now joined the staff of Tokyo's Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, and will act as announcer and science guide to a new permanent exhibition.

Ztylus has produced a stylish case to protect your iPhone, Note 3 or S4 from life's bumps and scrapes that's also home to a circular mount onto which a multiple lens system is attached. This gives mobile snappers four additional lens options to play with.

Google's interest in wearables is no longer just about Google Glass. Starting next month, the first Android Wear smartwatches are going to land. Wondering which of the first two Wear watches to buy? Let's take a look at the features and specs of the Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch.

Air traffic controllers armed with a suite of high-tech equipment have been authorized to direct flights over 100 km (61 mi) away from a Swedish airport. The world first technology uses a tower of cameras and sensors on the airfield and a remote tower to streamline operations for smaller fields.