David Guerra
Mr. Porfido
Web & Design
3/26/15
Period-6

NASA

It certainly won't be troubling any earth-based runners' personal bests, but NASA's long-serving Mars rover Opportunity set a significant benchmark Tuesday as it clocked in 26.219 miles (42 kilometers) -- the first-ever Martian marathon.

It might have taken the robot 11 years and two months but it represents a significant landmark for NASA.

"This is the first time any human enterprise has exceeded the distance of a marathon on the surface of another world," said John Callas, Opportunity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

David Guerra
Web and Design
Mr. Porfido
3/20/15

Lights, mirrors, action! Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with minuscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times.

The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate a thin reflective telescope made of mirrors and filters; when light enters the eye it bounces off the series of mirrors and increases the perceived view of an object or person. It is hoped that the lens will improve the sight of people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which is the third leading cause of blindness globally.

David Guerra
Mr. Porfido
Web & Design
3/6/15
Period-7

200 GB

SanDisk has unveiled the world's most spacious storage card for smartphones. The catchy-named "SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition," comes with 200 gigabytes of storage. That's 72 GB more storage than the next-largest option on the market. But before you get too excited, cramming all that capacity on a tiny microSD card the size of your fingernail isn't for everyone. High-capacity storage is extremely expensive stuff. SanDisk said it will go on sale sometime in the spring and cost $400.00. Also, many newer phones also don't come with expandable storage. The Apple iPhone has never allowed customers to insert SD cards to grow its storage capacity, and Samsung just eliminated that option from its new Galaxy S6 smartphone.