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An award-winning playwright, he has contributed to Charged and iQ magazine and is the author of the website <em>Tales of Future Past</em>.</div><div class="clear_both"></div></div>  <span class="h2">Top Articles by David Szondy</span> <div id="author_top_articles" class="dotsontop"> <ul> <li> <div class="ata_img"> <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/z-1-prototype-spacesuit/23408/" title="NASA's first new spacesuit in 20 years is its own airlock"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/z-1-prototype.jpg" alt="NASA's first new spacesuit in 20 years is its own airlock"/> </a> </div> <div class="ata_details"> <a class="ata_title" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/z-1-prototype-spacesuit/23408/">NASA's first new spacesuit in 20 years is its own airlock</a> <p class="ata_summary">NASA is developing its first new space suit in twenty years incorporating new technologies.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="ata_img"> <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/liquidpistol-rotary/24623/" title="LiquidPiston unveils 40-bhp X2 rotary engine with 75 percent thermal efficiency"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/liquidpiston.jpg" alt="LiquidPiston unveils 40-bhp X2 rotary engine with 75 percent thermal efficiency"/> </a> </div> <div class="ata_details"> <a class="ata_title" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/liquidpistol-rotary/24623/">LiquidPiston unveils 40-bhp X2 rotary engine with 75 percent thermal efficiency</a> <p class="ata_summary">LiquidPiston has developed its X2 rotary engine that boasts a thermal efficiency of 75 percent.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="ata_img"> <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/sf-time-capsule/23556/" title="Sci-Fi writers of the past predict life in 2012"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/1987-predictions-2.jpg" alt="Sci-Fi writers of the past predict life in 2012"/> </a> </div> <div class="ata_details"> <a class="ata_title" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/sf-time-capsule/23556/">Sci-Fi writers of the past predict life in 2012</a> <p class="ata_summary">As part of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award in 1987, a group of science fiction luminaries put together a text “time capsule” of their predictions about life in the far off year of 2012.</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="ata_img"> <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/skyflash-jet-propelled-wing/26355/" title="Skyflash: Jetman-like wings designed to allow ground take off"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/skyflash-77.jpg" alt="Skyflash: Jetman-like wings designed to allow ground take off"/> </a> </div> <div class="ata_details"> <a class="ata_title" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/skyflash-jet-propelled-wing/26355/">Skyflash: Jetman-like wings designed to allow ground take off</a> <p class="ata_summary">Germany’s Fritz Unger and a group of friends are building their own one-man, jet-propelled wing dubbed “Skyflash."</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="ata_img"> <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-lenr-nuclear-reactor/26309/" title="NASA's basement nuclear reactor"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/nasa-lenr.jpg" alt="NASA's basement nuclear reactor"/> </a> </div> <div class="ata_details"> <a class="ata_title" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-lenr-nuclear-reactor/26309/">NASA's basement nuclear reactor</a> <p class="ata_summary">The future of energy may lie in a nuclear reactor small enough and safe enough to be installed where the home water heater once sat.</p> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div>  <div class="summary_item noback" data-article="27248"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">ROBOTICS</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-remote-presence-mro/27248/">IBM developing robot assistance for technicians</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 29, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-remote-presence-mro/27248/pictures">8 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-remote-presence-mro/27248/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/ibn-mro-9.png" title="The IBM maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) (Photo: IBM) " alt="The IBM maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) (Photo: IBM) "/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> If you've ever tried typing while talking to technical support with the phone crammed between ear and shoulder, then you know the meaning of frustration. Now imagine doing that upside down inside an airplane wing while juggling wires, crimps and a schematic printout. For some field engineers, that sort of thing is an everyday occurrence, so IBM in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in the UK is developing a mobile maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) prototype robot. It's a combination of a smartphone app and a camera/projector mounted on a robot arm, that allows supervisors and experts to have a more active presence on the job.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-remote-presence-mro/27248/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div>   <div class="summary_item newsbyte " data-article="27296"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/jet-powered-junior-dragster-sale-ebay/27296/">Jet-powered junior dragster for sale on eBay</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="summary"> <p> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/jet-powered-junior-dragster-sale-ebay/27296/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/related/jet-powered-junior-dragster.jpg" title="Jet Powered Junior Dragster" alt="Jet Powered Junior Dragster" class="newsbyte_img"/></a> If you’re the parent of a junior drag racer who thinks that an ordinary quarter mile blast of nitro-fueled acceleration is a bit “samey,” there’s an item on eBay that may interest you. TransTurbine is selling a Junior Dragster powered by a turbojet engine.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/jet-powered-junior-dragster-sale-ebay/27296/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27247"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/space/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">SPACE</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/spheres-vertigo-robot-3d-mapping/27247/">NASA's goggle-eyed SPHERE robots create 3D maps on the fly</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 27, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/spheres-vertigo-robot-3d-mapping/27247/#comments">2 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/spheres-vertigo-robot-3d-mapping/27247/pictures">6 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/spheres-vertigo-robot-3d-mapping/27247/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/spheres.jpg" title="NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn conducts the SPHERES-VERTIGO investigation aboard the Interna..." alt="NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn conducts the SPHERES-VERTIGO investigation aboard the Interna..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Take the little floating ball that gave Luke Skywalker so much trouble during lightsaber practice, slap a pair of huge welder’s goggles on it and you start to get a picture of NASA’s latest foray into flying robots. Currently being tested aboard the International Space Station (ISS), MIT Space Systems Laboratory’s SPHERES-VERTIGO system is a free-flying robot with stereoscopic vision that is part of a program to develop ways for small satellites to autonomously create 3D maps of objects such as asteroids or disabled satellites.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/spheres-vertigo-robot-3d-mapping/27247/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27246"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/environment/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">ENVIRONMENT</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/led-streetlamp/27246/">New streetlight design curbs light pollution</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 26, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/led-streetlamp/27246/#comments">3 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/led-streetlamp/27246/pictures">5 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/led-streetlamp/27246/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/led-streetlamp-5.jpg" title="Schematic of the new street lamp" alt="Schematic of the new street lamp"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> For astronomers, a well-lit city means a sky unavailable for study. Worse, light pollution is blamed for affecting bird migration, sea turtle hatching, and wildlife mating and feeding routines. Researchers at National Central University, Taiwan, and Unidad Academica de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, have attacked the problem with a new LED street lamp designed to shine only where needed, without splashing into unwanted areas, as a way to reduce light pollution while providing better lighting.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/led-streetlamp/27246/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27255"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/space/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">SPACE</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/voyager-gauge/27255/">NASA lets public track when Voyager spacecraft leave the Solar System</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 25, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/voyager-gauge/27255/#comments">1 Comment</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/voyager-gauge/27255/pictures">19 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/voyager-gauge/27255/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/voyager-gauge.jpg" title="The Voyager gauge (Image: NASA)" alt="The Voyager gauge (Image: NASA)"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The history of spaceflight is filled with great images, such as Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon or Viking 1’s first images from Mars, but some of the most dramatic events haven’t any images to accompany them. As NASA's two Voyager spacecraft leave the Solar System, there won’t be any historic pictures sent back. Instead, that invisible boundary between our system and interstellar space will be marked by readings taken by the instruments of the spacecraft. NASA has placed a readout on the Voyager mission home page that shows two of three key factors that will let the public know when this momentous milestone has been reached.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/voyager-gauge/27255/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27207"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">ROBOTICS</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/blabdroid-robot/27207/">BlabDroid robots want to interact with us humans</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 24, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/blabdroid-robot/27207/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/blabdroid.jpg" title="Blabdroids are designed as hackable, social robot companions" alt="Blabdroids are designed as hackable, social robot companions"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Sure, robots do all kinds of useful work from exploring <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/curiosity/" target="_blank">Mars</a> to imitating <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/flipperbot-robot-turtle/27238/ " target="_blank">baby sea turtles</a>, but when was the last time you had a conversation with one? Developed by artist Alexander Reben and filmmaker Brent Hoff, BlabDroid is a “social robot companion” that was originally used at the Tribeca Film Festival to get visitors to open up and chat about things that they wouldn't say to a human being. This proved so successful that the little cardboard robot is now the focus of a Kickstarter project aimed at putting it into production.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/blabdroid-robot/27207/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27213"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/military/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">MILITARY</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/">DARPA announces winner in FANG challenge</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 24, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/#comments">8 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/darpa-fang.jpg" title="Artist's concept of the Ground Systems FANG vehicle" alt="Artist's concept of the Ground Systems FANG vehicle"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on Monday the winner of the first challenges in its competition to design the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/fang-darpa-registrations-open/24393/" target="_blank">Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground Vehicle</a> (FANG). The US$1 million prize went to “Ground Systems” – a three-person group with members in Ohio, Texas and California. The first of three challenges, the purpose of the competition is to bring crowdsourcing to the problem of creating armored vehicles, with the hope of reducing the design costs by a factor of five.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-fang-winner/27213/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27211"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/space/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">SPACE</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/phonesat-launch/27211/">NASA smartphone satellites piggyback into orbit on Antares</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 24, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/phonesat-launch/27211/#comments">4 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/phonesat-launch/27211/pictures">3 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/phonesat-launch/27211/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/phonesat-launch-1.jpg" title="High altitude balloon test of PhoneSat 1.0" alt="High altitude balloon test of PhoneSat 1.0"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> When Orbital Science Corporation's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/antares-rocket-launch/27194/" target="_blank">Antares</a> rocket lofted a simulated spacecraft mass into orbit on its maiden flight from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia on Sunday, it also carried a piggyback cargo of three NASA nanosatellites. These “PhoneSats,” which were built using smartphone and off-the-shelf consumer components in a standard cubesat frame, may be the cheapest satellites ever launched.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/phonesat-launch/27211/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27192"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/automotive/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">AUTOMOTIVE</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/volkswagen-ibeetle-iphone/27192/">Volkswagen and Apple come together in the iBeetle</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 23, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/volkswagen-ibeetle-iphone/27192/pictures">10 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/volkswagen-ibeetle-iphone/27192/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/ibeetle-vw.JPG" title="The Volkswagen iBeetle is a marriage of Volkswagen’s iconic Beetle and Apple's equally ico..." alt="The Volkswagen iBeetle is a marriage of Volkswagen’s iconic Beetle and Apple's equally ico..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> With the burgeoning Chinese car market seeing a large percentage of cars being snapped up by younger people, it's no surprise Volkswagen chose the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show as the location for the world première of its iBeetle – a marriage of Volkswagen’s iconic Beetle and Apple's equally iconic iPhone. The iBeetle will come in Coupe and Convertible models and features a centrally located docking port specially designed in collaboration with Apple that allows a docked or undocked iPhone to interface with the vehicle using the Beetle app.  <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/volkswagen-ibeetle-iphone/27192/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27194"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> <a class="vsmall" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/space/" style="float: left; margin-right: 9px;">SPACE</a> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/antares-rocket-launch/27194/">Successful first launch of Antares rocket</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">April 21, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/antares-rocket-launch/27194/#comments">4 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/antares-rocket-launch/27194/pictures">10 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130430030306/http://www.gizmag.com/antares-rocket-launch/27194/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130430030306im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/antares-launch.jpg" title="Launch of the Antares rocket from NASA”s Wallops Flight Facility (Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls..." alt="Launch of the Antares rocket from NASA”s Wallops Flight Facility (Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket lifted off Sunday at 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 GMT) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA”s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. 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