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NASA is funding a deep sleep chamber and other crazy concepts
NASA is setting aside money to fund the most ambitious and odd-but-interesting projects that made it through NIAC's first phase. NIAC or NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is the agency's annual program that welcomes submissions from forward-thinking scientists. The agency has chosen eight from the 13 phase 1 concepts, including a deep sleep chamber that astronauts can use for missions to Mars, the moon and places much farther than Earth's orbit.
Email'n'Walk iPhone app finally lets us leave the house
We can't believe it's taken this long for an app to do this, but Phase2 Media's Email'n'Walk app overlays an email composition window over live video from your iPhone's camera, allowing you to pound out messages while avoiding sidewalk-hogging obstacles. We just wish it didn't rely on the actual Mail app for sending and it'd be nice if it handled SMS as well, but obviously Apple's not going to let that happen. Free in the App Store for now.[Thanks, Becky; warning: iTunes read link]
