Surprise ‘gong’ follows UK Astronaut Tim Peake’s CMG (Companion of order of St Michael and St George), and petitions to award the International Space Station (ISS) the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘This isn’t nearly as daft as it sounds’ said legendary 82 year-old former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz. ‘The United States achieved unprecedented technological advances with its manned spaceflight programs, and much of this was driven by a desire to go to the Moon.  Without the Moon, the whole thing would have been far less exciting – and nobody would have heard of...

Millions of consumers besiege shops, hoping to be the first to own ‘The Must-Have Product Of All Time’. With advance sales of over 1,000,000,000, Kettle 7 already has its place in the history books – and company chiefs are gearing up for even greater success when the top-secret design is finally unveiled at the O2 next week. A statement by the company read ‘The kettle – for so long a symbol of Britishness – is about to move on to a whole different level’. ‘Kettle 7 will have several ground-breaking features’: It can freeze water as well as boil it....

Swiss company launches the latest in an endless line of limited edition ‘Moon Watch’ Models. We’ve had ‘The First Omega in Space’ Special Edition – plus Apollo XI 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th and 45th Anniversary models. Enough already?   Not a bit. Omega’s marketeers have now unveiled their masterpiece: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate the first ‘Motion Moment’ on the lunar surface. At precisely 9.07 pm GMT on 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong took his first Giant Leak for Mankind – and more besides. Using the Lunar Module’s...

It isn’t just driverless cars that will need to ‘decide’ what to do in no-win situations… Recent research has shown that most people would prefer driverless cars if necessary to sacrifice their occupants rather than plough into a group of children. Yeah right.  But this is only one of many scenarios in which autonomous devices of all kinds will have to make split-second judgements. Others include: Vacuum cleaners: should they suck up and kill spiders, wood lice and ladybirds – or sacrifice the cleanliness of carpets? Alarm clocks: should they allow some...

The tech giant is aiming to broaden its appeal to the criminal fraternity with its latest model. ‘With our highest ever level of encryption, the iphone supermax gives unprecedented protection to the people who need it most’ commented lizard-like morally bankrupt Apple CEO Tim Cook (successor to lizard-like, morally bankrupt Steve Jobs). ‘The consequences for our nation’s serial killers, child molesters, armed robbers and terrorists of being hacked are almost unimaginable: arrest, jail time, enhanced interrogation – possibly even execution.’ ‘We are absolutely...