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Instead of following printed text instructions you can now use 3D-glasses to assemble the same tasks in a more effective and simple way. Using augmented reality, the mechanic receives additional three-dimensional information on the engine he is repairing, for example, to help him in diagnosing and solving the fault. Apart from the real environment, he sees virtually animated components, the tools to be used and hears instruction on each of the working steps through headphones integrated inside the goggles.

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The awesome Sarcos-Raytheon’s XOS Exoskeleton, the full-body motion-assisting suit for “super soldier.” For the time being it may look as fat and ugly as Iron Monger, but remember Iron Man’s clunky beginnings. This may get to the point of being like the hot rod red and gold armor in a few years.

Sure, it doesn’t have rocket boots built in, but it’s still amazing. When wearing XOS you can lift a 200-pound weight and feel like it’s just 20 pounds, or throw a punch and have the suit’s metal fist follow through onto the target.

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When humans set foot on the planet Mars, the world will be treated to a live telecast of stunning clarity and colour - a far cry from the blurry, grainy images of the first lunar landing four decades ago.

The television pictures will arrive courtesy of a technology called a ‘beamformer’, designed by CSIRO scientist Dr John Burton, which has earned him a NASA award.

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The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS) has docked with the orbiting outpost.

Flying with American Mike Fincke and Russian Yuri Lonchakov is the US fare-paying tourist Richard Garriott.

Mr Garriott, who paid about $30m (£17m) for a 10-day trip to the ISS, is following in the footsteps of his father, a Nasa astronaut in the 1970s.

Docking occurred slightly ahead of schedule over Kazakhstan at 0826 GMT.

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