Finding water on another planet might be hailed by some to be one of the biggest discoveries of mankind, but they are forgetting that it takes far more than just the presence of water to support theories that there is life outside of earth. Well, a spinoff from the Carnegie Mellon University, Astrobotic Technology, has finished building their full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot that was specially designed with just one mission in life – to look for water and ice at the moon’s poles. Known as Polaris, it will carry a drill in order to bore a hole that is one meter deep into the lunar surface, where it will then get to work even in the low-light conditions of the poles.
Touted to be the “first rover developed specifically for drilling lunar ice”, the whole idea of searching for such water would be to look for a potential source that could eventually furnish future expeditions with precious water, fuel and oxygen. A trio of large solar arrays will help keep the Polaris juiced, capturing light from low on the horizon while it continues with its drilling work.
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What you see above is the Logitech Touch Mouse T620, where it was specially designed to deliver a full touch-surface for fluid navigation with the Windows 8 operating system that is bound to be released later this month. It is rather similar in its workings to the touchpad, providing you with the adequate freedom to gesture wherever your fingers rest on the mouse, never mind if they are on the edges, for a more natural and intuitive feeling, and this will include horizontal and vertical scrolling, and app switching. Your hand should take to the Logitech Touch Mouse T620 in a jiffy, and using it for hours should not result in any adverse effects.
Who would have thought that a touchpad would eventually come with batteries one day? Logitech did, which is why they have just announced the Logitech Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad T650 that was specially designed right out of the box to play nice with the Windows 8 touch interface. Upon unboxing, you will find a large, ultra-smooth glass touch-surface which supports Windows 8 gestures, and it ought to do its part to make sure that navigation among windows is performed in a jiffy, while making sure that there is adequate space for your fingers to roam around.
While there might be trials for app purchases, there hasn’t really been any trial subscriptions which means that if you wanted to see if a digital magazine or newspaper is right for you, you will need to actually subscribe to find out – assuming the free version wasn’t enough to go by. Well the good news for users and digital content providers is that Google has announced that they have added the option for free trials for in-app subscriptions. 
