British company Excalibur Almaz has unveiled plans to take Joe Public on space flights to the Moon.

Intel has committed to a pioneering research project with the encouragement of the UK Government.

ExplainedIs Honda's personal mobility device vehicle the next Segway or Sinclair C5?

Microsoft has announced the winner of its inaugural PC Hardware Design Project.

Gestures and voice control aren't things we'll be seeing on our TVs. That's according to Gartner principal analyst Paul O'Donovan.

Japanese printer manufacturer Brother has unveiled the prototype of a laser that can print at 100 pages per minute (ppm).

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In DepthPCs have always been fairly easy things to spot: if it has a keyboard, a display, a pointing device, storage and a selection of ports, it's probably a PC. This year, that's going to change.

In DepthMind control technology has advanced slowly over the last 100 years, but now the price of implementing the technology is dropping rapidly. It's time is nearly here.

In DepthThe heart of the car- a combustion engine delivering power to the axles controlled via a steering column - has remained constant. But now it's communication technologies that are taking centre stage.

Cambridge scientists have invented a hand-held laser that removes toner from old documents so the paper can be re-used.

What if your home could suddenly become much more intelligent? Here are a few of the technologies you can expect in your part of town in the not-too-distant future.

In DepthForget the space race to Mars - the real technological arms race is taking place in super-cooled bunkers across the globe as countries compete to take the crown of fastest supercomputer on Earth.

Let's consider two alternative futures: one bright, one bleak. The path that progress takes in each could be startlingly different.

IBM has published its sixth annual Five in Five - where it predicts five innovations that will change all of our lives in the next five years, with mind-reading machines apparently set to be interpreting our thoughts by 2016.

Explained3D printing has successfully found its way into commercial applications such as product prototyping, where objects can be printed and seen before being sent for manufacturing. But like all new technologies, it's now getting to the stage where anybody can get it done.

In DepthSome pundits believe 10 petaflops is the processing power of the human brain - so on that basis, the K Computer will outperform the human brain within months.

Airbus has shown off its latest concept plane, which features a glass membrane fuselage to give you a real magic carpet feel.

ExplainedInterconnected devices set to alter our perceptions of reality

The Apple iPad will be the main control centre for the kitchen of the future, according to Ikea who has peered into its crystal ball and predicted what the culinary world will be like in 2040.

Weird TechPlus pretending to go to Mars, monkey/robot interfaces and your face in 20 years time

CEO talks tablets, car displays and 3D that doesn't need glasses

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A government study has picked out the kind of jobs that are likely to be commonplace by 2030, but the stuff of sci-fi right now, including spaceship pilot and avatar manager.