Fire-Fighter Suits, Water Purifiers, Selfie Cameras - NASA Shows How Space-Tech Changed Life

The US space agency, NASA, has launched an interactive website, which allows its users to tour through the building to discover common items that the space agency¡¯s technology helped improving over the years. The selfie cameras and water purifiers are among the products that have improved with the help of NASA tech.

The showcased spinoffs are commercial products that apply NASA technology, originally developed for studying and exploring space.

NASA Home & City features about 130 spinoff technologies in a virtual space, allowing users to tour through buildings and rooms to discover common items that NASA inspired or helped improve These, "Our space technology continues to improve life on Earth," said Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

"NASA Home & City is a place of discovery for people, and especially students, who have ever wondered why space exploration should matter to them," said Reuter.

The website showcases only a small sample of NASA spinoff and dual-purpose technologies, NASA said in a statement.

The spinoffs include water filtration systems originally designed to purify water for the Apollo astronauts.

The silver ion technology purifies and softens water while inhibiting bacteria growth in filtering units.

Today, manufacturers use this combined technology to create home-use water filtering systems that not only purify and soften, but also remove objectionable tastes and odours.

Wind turbines designed for Mars and tested in Antarctica -- where access to solar power is scarce -- can be found generating power all over the globe.

NASA spacesuits and firefighter gear use a similar fabric.