The U.S. military is testing a wearable system for recording a soldier’s environment when on patrol, with the intention of better determining what happened in a combat situation.

OK, so there’s no mash-ups yet to tell you where to get a good burger or refuel the FTL drive. But the latest three-dimensional map of the known universe is the biggest and most detailed yet, and may help to pin down that ‘dark matter’ stuff that may or may not make up a huge percentage of everything.

For obvious reasons, toxic substances are a no-go area for new medical methods. But everyone wants a piece of the nanotube action, so researchers at the University of California have been coating them with synthetic polymers that mimic molecules found in the human body. A big step along from sugar-coating the pills.

Japanese footwear company Asics have developed a new training shoe that they believe will help astronauts maintain muscle-tone in zero gravity conditions. Even if they don’t have that effect, it’s still a great ploy for marketing to the geek dollar.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM are in partnership to create a computing center devoted to developing nanoscale projects. This will include ‘Blue Gene’ supercomputers amongst other wonders of the computing industry, and will provide over 70 teraflops of raw processing power. Big money spent on developing tiny gadgets.