Joseph Meola of Air Force Research Labs conducting measurements on laser light bounced back from various samples placed a mile away on the ground from a prototype laser at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Image credit: Anthony Absi, Air Force ...
New Development will Charge your Mobile in 20 Seconds
Eesha Khare and her supercapacitor An 18-year-old student from Lynbrook High School in California, made a technological discovery that has the potential to change the future of how we use your cell phones and many other devices creating an electrochemical ...
New Sensor – 1000 Times More Sensitive to Light!
The new groundbraking graphene sensor (Credit: Nanyang Technological University) Engineers from Singapore have created a new type of camera sensor made from graphene that is said to be 1,000 times more sensitive to light than current imaging sensors. Researchers from ...
The World’s Fastest Electric Car Goes into Production
Detroit Electric SP:01 sport’s car Super light and fast EV Detroit Electric recently came out with what it calls the world’s fastest pure-electric production car. With a total weight of 2,400 pounds and a top speed of 155 mph this ...
Wireless Charging Electric Bus Tested in Germany
Primove bus demo Primove bus conductive charge system Primove chrger on the road A small scale test currently being conducted in Germany might one day change the way we use both public and private transportation. Two local buses have been ...
First Motorcycle Helmet with Rear Vision
The MSX1 helmet – look behind you MSX1 – high quality helmet with Rear Vision Reevu recently launched the world’s first “Rear Vision” motorcycle helmet. Under development for several years now, the advanced helmet might help prevent motorcycle accidents and ...
DARPA Wants a New X-plane that can Hover
DARPA’s new X-plane VTOL illustration Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced earlier this week that it is interested in developing an experimental program that will be able to take off and hover like a helicopter but fly like an ...
China to introduce a Robotic Electromagnetic Bus
China might be the first country in the world to introduce magnetic levitation robotic bus in Shanghai. Traffic congestion in China’s big cities and in Shanghai in particular became a big problem in recent years. Officials in China have been ...
A T-shirt that can Charge your iPhone
Xiaodong Li (foreground) demonstrates the flexibility of a swatch of activated carbon textile (credit: University of South Carolina ) Researchers from the University of South Carolina created the first ever T-shirt that can be used as a ultra powerful battery ...
Car Illumination that can Work Through Rain
Car’s headligths in the snow – illustration (Credit: Carnegie Mellon University) Naive illumination ((a) and (c)) versus fast reactive illumination ((b) and (d)) with the prototype running at 120Hz (system latency of 13ms) (Credit: Carnegie Mellon University) Driving through rain ...