To infinity and beyond: tickets, please! [2013 Tech To Watch]

In the high deserts of New Mexico, not far from the bi son grazing on Ted Turner's sprawling Armendaris ranch, lie some curiously otherworldly structures. The largest one presents a 15-meterhigh wall of glass on one flank, although the rest of the building appears to have buried itself in the adjacent earth, as if it had crash-landed there. Just a couple of hundred meters away sits a low-slung dome with something that resembles a giant eye budding from the top. "It almost looks like a spaceship itself," quips David Wilson, who handles media relations for the site.