Driverless cars soon legal in Nevada
June 24, 2011
The state of Nevada recently passed Assembly Bill 511, which tasks the Department of Transportation with drafting rules for driverless vehicles. via Geekosystem
No wings, no rotors, no jets – a completely new kind of aircraft propulsion system
June 23, 2011
“An Austrian engineering firm debuted a new type of hovercraft at the Paris Air Show this week, claiming it can take off and land vertically without using any rotor blades or fixed wings.” via Popular Science
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American Airlines is first to test Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator
June 23, 2011
“Boeing and American Airlines have teamed up to demonstrate technology for reducing aviation fuel consumption, carbon emissions and noise.” via the engineer
… Read More → "American Airlines is first to test Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator"The 10,000 year clock being built into a mountain in West Texas
June 22, 2011
“The clock will be put into a cave inside a mountain and will have five chambers that people can visit. The five chambers will celebrate certain milestones in the clock’s life. The chambers will be for 1, 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000-year anniversaries of the clock, and each will have a special something inside that the clock will activate. The builders are only going to design the animations for the first and tenth anniversaries and are leaving the later dates to future generations.” via technabob
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Shenzen, China is banning electric bikes because they’ve killed too many people
June 22, 2011
Apparently they’re too quiet. Um, what about those little handlebar bells??
via Gizmodo. Read about it here.
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June 21, 2011
“Researchers at Northern Illinois University have discovered that burning magnesium in frozen carbon dioxide produces a thin layer of the hyped-to-the-lattices carbon nanostructure. The so-called dry-ice method has several advantages over previous techniques, not the least of which is the ability to pump out the relative of pencil lead on a much larger scale. It also happens to be faster, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly compared with the lengthy processes involving hazardous chemicals used in most graphene production.” via Engadget
Cheap, swarming Kilobots
June 21, 2011
“At first glance, it may seem like these kilobots are just for fun. Why would a tiny, desktop robot that moves around be important? Well, the goal of swarm robotics is to allow a large number of robots to work together on the same task. Think of robots working in a mine or tiny nanobots that will have medical uses. There are an endless number of potential applications from building 3D models to working in search and rescue or even just playing capture the flag.” via … Read More → "Cheap, swarming Kilobots"
FishEyes: a rod and reel that comes with an underwater FishCam
June 21, 2011
Now you can watch the fish while you catch ’em!
FishEyes Rod & Reel with Underwater Video Camera ($79.90) www.fish-eyes.com
(photo: FishEyes)
via tech.MikeShouts
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