The featured simulations range from medical and geographical imaging, to advanced human-machine interfaces, aerospace vehicles, galaxy formations and new learning technologies. We are very excited about the opportunity to interact directly with the public in this way. A variety of collaborative-environment technologies that allow scientists, doctors and engineers to develop new procedures and improve existing ones will be on display at the NASA booth. We are supporting remote collaborations of doctors at different locations on Earth. Another demonstration, the virtual mechanosynthesis simulation experiment, will allow users to practice designing models with vibrating and rotating simulated atoms the size of ping pong balls.
Nanotechnology is also the construction and operation of machines on the nanometer scale.
With this technology, researchers can move individual atoms and create plausible atomic designs. Workbench users wear stereo glasses to view a 3-D image of the Earth that they manipulate with intuitive hand movements. Digital Earth explorers can hold the Earth in their hands and lift it up to their faces to see natural and cultural forces that affect our planet. Viewers have the option of observing sea surface temperature measurements, weather forecasts or movies of recent earthquakes and other disasters. Demonstrators will roam a dramatic, high-resolution Earth model.