BBC Focus Magazine

[Shadowwolf]

Now to fit them with an electro-zapper.

In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data to its astronaut handler for the first time via a new smartphone controller.

The Human Exploration Telerobotics project, one of NASA's new, high-value Technology Demonstration Missions, equipped the compact, free-flying satellites -- known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES -- with a Samsung Nexus S™ handset that features Google’s open-source Android™ platform.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/telerobotics/11-160.html

[M Paul Lloyd]

Or a big scary chrome and glass hypodermic syringe.