A start-up company from the Seattle area won $900,000 on Friday in a NASA contest to build a miniature prototype of a machine that could one day climb from Earth to outer space. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

We're all for more natural interaction with our gadgets. But for the love of Arthur C. Clarke, please don't give eye-tracking to any computer named HAL. Full Article at Popular Science

Abstract: "The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius. A merely clever man could never have thought of it -- or would have dismissed it instantly as absurd. Full Article at Nanotech Now

And Arthur C. Clarke wrote the script, at least in one version of the story. Space skeptics point to holes in the Apollo archive (like missing transcripts and blueprints) or oddities in the mission photos (misplaced crosshairs, funny shadows). Full Article at LewRockwell.com

Years ago the futurist, inventor and sci-fi author Sir Arthur C. Clarke had a brilliant idea: Instead of launching rockets to get up into orbit, why not build a "space elevator?" Full Article at Core77

The legend that is Sir Arthur C. Clarke is formidable. As a science fiction author who knew how to mix imagination with scientific reality, Clarke left the world a legacy of wonderful stories as well as a firm contribution to science. Full Article at Wired

First proposed in 1895, and popularized by the Arthur C. Clarke book The Fountains of Paradise, space elevators have a rich history in the culture of space travel. Unfortunately, the history of their engineering success is far less impressive. Full Article at Popular Science

This concept image from NASA shows what a space elevator and transfer station could look like. Full Article at CNN

Award winning British author Richard K. Morgan has been hired by EA to oversee the stories of three new games. Full Article at Eurogamer

Arthur C Clarke once famously noted that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. Full Article at Ministry of Truth

high. Funded by a NASA program to explore bold technology, the contest is intended to encourage development of a theory that originated in the 1960s and was popularized by Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise." Full Article at TwinCities.com

Theorised in the 1960s and then popularised by Arthur C Clarke's 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise," space elevators are envisioned as a way to gain access to space without the risk and expense of rockets. Full Article at Independent Online

In Arthur C. Clarke's 1997 novel 3001: The Final Odyssey (there, you didn't know I was a science-fiction fan, did you, and nor am I, but I did once interview Clarke) the human race had interbred so much in the thousand years since his Space Odyssey... Full Article at Times Online

OUTSIDE Japan, Osamu Tezuka is known as the manga artist who created Astro Boy, the cute young robot whose crime-fighting antics are popular across the world. Full Article at The Australian

Silicon Valley Insider, with credit to Gizmodo, posted the best Apple Tablet concepts. My favorite is the first one. It looks like a sleek, over sized iPhone with app icons along the bottom in a dock-like configuration. Full Article at The Mac Observer

The venerable Hotel Chelsea encompasses the best and worst that New York City has to offer. Full Article at Playback:stl

We continue previewing the Atlantic Division with the New York Knicks. You can read past previews here. Let the summer free agent feast begin! Oh but of course there’s this season to get out of the way first. Full Article at SLAM Online

Wired.com: You come at science convincingly from the direction of fiction, and you’re pretty precise about your work, which you maintain is speculative fiction rather than sci-fi. Full Article at Wired

(Europa courtesy of NASA) Greenberg has considered three generic resurfacing processes: gradually laying fresh material on the surface; opening cracks which fill with fresh ice from below; and disrupting patches of surface in place and... Full Article at Science Fiction in the News