What new tech have you read about or heard lately that excited you?

In the waiting room at the dentist, read a National Geographic article about what MIT scientists and others including NASA are doing to detect life on distant planets revolving around stars like our Sun.

What amazed me the most were this microchips the size of stamps they referred to as “spaceships”—————that as I understand it would be released in space in vast numbers propelled by energy harnessed in space by the chips themselves———-the mission is to detect life wherever they end up going.

Can’t help but to think of the probes in Star Wars.