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Less impressive than the headline, since they actually just tested their conversion system at suboptimal conditions on an existing reactor setup, but still since done within six month and with less than 1M€ ...
Coming next: Dancing bear jumps through burning hoop! ... on Asteroid!!! :-P
But seriously - Chris Hadfield did an amazing job in getting ordinary Earthlings interested in space.
His educational videos can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUaartJaon3LV-ZQ4J3bNQj4VNVG2ByIG
And in case you wonder, this is *not* the most expensive music video ever made. Also, launching his guitar to the orbit was still far cheaper than the cost of some guitars sold on earth.
Where else can this info come from if not http://what-if.xkcd.com/45/
Quite ambitious russian version of the future. Immortality is quite on the edge in the next 15 years! Don't miss the superheroic Youtube-video on that page! :)
"The researchers also discovered that the robot is very bad at juggling shoes and Coke bottles"... I wonder if that's the future work directions in their IEEE paper.