This issue also features our exclusive report from Intel's research conference in San Francisco. Discover the chip-giant's vision for computers in 2020. Will we be surrounded by a cloud of almost-invisible computational intelligence? And will our cars know more about each other than we do about them?

We also spend a night sneaking up a peak in Hawaii to sneak a peek at the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way, thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope.

Then it's over to Arduino, the little pocket development platform that can. We'll show you how to build your dream electronics project, and then give it brains in the form of a tiny blue circuit-board.

And finally we look at only the good things about the NBN - hang the cost: what services, tech and other goodies you can expect once your home internet connection hits 100Mbps or more.

Plus all our usual goodies - self-cooling shirts, non-pneumatic tyres, nano-bots on Mars, seeing through walls, an actual flying mechanical dragon, transforming stadiums, the future of Olympic sporting tech, and the extraction of frightening-looking heavy metals from common digestive medicine.

Australian Popular Science - it's the future of the nearly-now!