Killer Whale Submarine (credit: Hammacher Schlemmer) Killer Whale Submarine (credit: Hammacher Schlemmer) Killer Whale Submarine interior (credit: Hammacher Schlemmer) After personal jets and personal yachts comes the turn of a personal submersible. What used to belong only to the military ...
Tesla Motors Model X – The Electric SUV
Tesla Motors Model X – Electric SUV The U.S. car manufacturer Tesla Motors unveiled the upcoming Model X an all-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) that will combine high performance with environment friendliness. The original Tesla Roadster introduced in 2008 is ...
The Great Pyramid’s Chamber of Secrets
Robotic Images Reveal Secrets of Great Pyramid (Source-Djedi Team) The settling of a couple major and long lived questions involving the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt are only a tiny fraction of what remains to be answered in the ...
Drone Crash in Pakistan Ignites Citizen Questions
SmartBird drone designed by the engineers at Festo and modeled explicitly on the herring gull (Source Wired.com) The strange birdlike drone that crashed to the parched earth in a remote section of Pakistan early last week is now safely in ...
Does the Taliban Have a Chopper-Killer IRAM
A CH-47 Chinook takes off after picking up Fox Company from the Northern Bermel region in the hills of Afghanistan. (Source: Wired.com) Was This Enhanced Rocket Weapon Responsible for the Tragedy of the CH-47 Afghanistan Navy Seal Crash? The Taliban ...
New Methods in Tiny Technology
A 3D nanostructure with layers as seen by a Scanning Electron Microscope. Source: MIT A silk-based sensor patterned with nanostructures. Source: MIT Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, have recently devised a new method of creating ...
New Nanolithography Method
Dr. Chad Mirkin. Source: Northwestern University Scientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois have developed a new nanolithography method that quickly deposits or carves out nanostructures on a large surface. The new method can create arbitrary patterns using a series ...
Nanoparticle Magnets Conserve Rare Earth Metals
Professor George Hadjipanayis. Source: University of Delaware. Researchers at the University of Delaware and at General Electric Global Research are independently developing new magnets using nanoparticles to preserve the increasingly small supply of rare earth metals typically used in the ...
New Techniques for Solar Cells
Material on a block polymer film separating into segregated pockets. Source: Argonne National Laboratory. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed an extension to atomic layer deposition techniques which could lead to improvements in solar cells and photonic ...
Safe House
Polish architectural firm KWKPromes’ “Safe House” located on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland. Created by architect Robert Konieczny and collaborated with Tukasz Zadrynski and Marcin Jojko; interior design by Magdalena Radatowicz-Zadrzynska. It took a little over a year to complete ...