SmartPlanet Special Edition: Future airplanes; electric cars; blindness treatment; inflatable space habitats

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Students design inflatable habitats for NASA astronauts Three universities -- Oklahoma State, the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison -- have been commissioned by NASA to design and construct inflatable space habitats for astronauts. Read Full Blog >>   Rechargeable Li-ion batteries that are paper-thin Devices like smart packaging and radio-frequency sensing devices could get a boost. Read Full Blog >>   10 steps to push electric vehicle adoption Before electric vehicles hit any tipping point a lot of collaboration and technology milestones need to be reached. Read Full Blog >>   Is Vancouver the next global hub for green tech? Andrea Reimer explains why Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world by 2020: "Everybody's racing to own the future, because if you don't own the future, the future owns you." Read Full Blog >>   Discovery could lead to treatments for blindness disease British scientists have figured out the key mechanism behind the leading cause of blindness - opening up hope for new treatment options for age-related macular degeneration. Read Full Blog >>

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