A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs, and explosives hidden under people’s clothes from a distance of up to 25 meters. This new device may prove to be a major breakthrough for the security industry, ...
Evolution – Sea, Land, and Air Vehicle
Russian aircraft designer and inventor Alexander Begak has created a unique aircraft named Evolution. The aircraft can travel on land, in the water, and in the air. Evolution is designed to perform both military and civilian missions almost anywhere in ...
Nano-Diamonds Might Lead to Quantum Computing
University of Melbourne scientists have managed to create nanometer-sized diamonds, by shooting carbon atoms into glass and the heating the glass. The diamonds’ properties may help in creating quantum computers capable of performing parallel computing tasks that cannot be carried ...
Easy-Glider X6
The German Company Divio GmbH recently unveiled a new concept-vehicle named Easy-Glider X6. Although the new vehicle looks a bit like a strange hybrid between a scooter and a SegWay, Divio is promoting it as a truly unique creative vehicle. ...
Bat-Inspired Spy Plane
Scientists at the University of Michigan College of Engineering are developing a six-inch robotic spy plane, modeled after a bat. Its purpose is gathering data such as sights, sounds, and smells in urban combat zones and transmitting the information back ...
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is in need of a suitable replacement for the current up-armored HMMWV (Humvee). The U.S. Joint Forces have challenged industry to design and create a new tactical wheeled vehicle platform that will provide increased ...
L15 – The Autonomous Airship
The Nevada based company Airship Surveillance has announced the successful trial flight of a new surveillance airship called L15. The long loiter time of the airship is expected to make it a supreme surveillance tool. The new automated built in ...
The Other Meaning of ‘Computer Science’
If scientific research programs were movies, computers would always be cast as the sidekick: essential to the plot’s progress, but always serving the main character’s goals and motivations. Created by scientists and engineers, computers labor tirelessly to perform all the ...
Finchscope – New 3D Microscope
A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Israel have developed a technology, which may enable cheaper, faster, and more accurate three-dimensional imaging. The technology was named “Fresnel incoherent correlation holography” or “FINCH” ...
Nanowire Batteries to Hold 10 Times More Power
A team of researchers from Stanford University, led by Yi Cui, assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, have recently succeeded in reinventing the rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries used in laptops, iPods, cell phones, cameras, and other modern electronic devices. ...