“At 10:26 p.m. EST today, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3, hitting the satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean as it traveled in space at ...

Professor George Gruner and a group of scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have recently fabricated a flexible Carbon Nanotube (CNT) based battery architecture from “nanotube ink”, using cheap and highly scalable materials. Possible applications include powering ...

GEN H-4 is the world’s smallest co-axial helicopter. This ultra-light aircraft weighs only 155 lbs (70kg) when empty, and is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 55 mph (88 km/h). The GEN H-4 is powered by four twin cylinder ...

A pilot project in social networking, which involves wirelessly monitoring people in a closed environment, will commence in March, 2008 at the University of Washington’s computer science building. The RFID Ecosystem project will provide long-term, in-depth research of user-centered RFID ...

A team of electrical engineers from Stanford University and Toshiba have developed nanotube wires that can withstand data transfer speeds comparable to those of commercially available chips. In a paper published in the “Nano Letters” Journal, the researchers reported they ...

Researchers at Stanford University have developed silicon-based chips that can be mechanically stretched to cover an area up to 50 times larger than their original size. The technology, which was recently demonstrated at the International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington ...

For many years now, the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been the main place to hear about the next generation of consumer electronic technology. In recent years, the endless stream of product announcements at the ...

John Simpson, a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Department of Energy, recently developed a super-water repellent (superhydrophobic) material. His invention may lead to the creation of a new class of water repellant products, such as windshields, eyewear, ...

The Performance Aviation Manufacturing Group (PAM) has created the Individual Lifting Vehicle (ILV) concept that is being developed as a kit in the United States. PAM 100B, which was constructed in order to demonstrate the ILV concept, achieved a maximum ...

The Vectrix electric scooter offers all the benefits of a gasoline-powered scooter with reduced carbon dioxide and smog-forming pollutants. It can reach a speed of 62 mph (100 km/h) and accelerates rapidly, reaching a speed of 50 mph (96 km/h) ...