Ever thought a self-parking car could come in handy? Well, if you have, you might be in luck. Volvo are developing new technology that will see a car find a spare space and park there without the driver being in the vehicle. The car will apparently use sensors to interact safely with pedestrians, curbs and other vehicles. The driver will then use a mobile phone app to call the car back. But don't get too excited. There are reports the service will only work with parking spaces designed to be compatible with Volvo specific infrastructure technology.

Other new features Volvo are working on includes detection and auto brake for when pedestrians or large animal walk out into the road. Apparently, most of these technologies will be available in the new Volvo XC90, which won't be revealed until the end of 2014. Better to wait then.
 

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It was a lesson that 60 million schoolchildren in China will never forget. A live lecture where the tutor was in space, giving satellite lessons a whole new meaning. Wang Yaping made a water film with a water bag and a metal ring to show that the surface tension of water magnifies in space due to zero gravity.

Nie Haisheng, the crew’s commander, crossed his legs into a meditation sitting posture in the air, a move normally seen in the movies but only possible with special effects. And students were also shown how the astronauts measure their weight in the weightless orbiter because normal scales don’t work in space. A special scale is used designed on the basis of Newton’s second law of motion–a theory that probably normally goes over most people’s heads, but with this show and tell it’s definitely more understandable.

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Japan's Mount Fuji has been announced as a World Cultural Heritage Site by the UNESCO World Heritage committee. The 3776 metre high mountain is climbed by around 300,000 people every year in the months of July and August. Many Japanese see it as a spiritual place.

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Performers stand on just one bamboo log and drift along a river rapid performing various stunts. The incredible balancing act attracts hundreds of tourists and visitors from across the country every year. The technique has become so popular it is now a fixture at the annual Chinese National Ethnic Sports Games.

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