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Superbus Designed By Students Make Public Transportation Look Cool
It’s not often you hear something dubbed “super” and find out that it’s also an eco-oriented product, but that’s just what the Superbus is. The students at UT Delft in the Netherlands have come up with a prototype Superbus, which is an electric-powered machine, sporting a carbon fiber shell, low chassis, and 16 individual gull-wing doors. Thanks to its lithium-polymer battery pack that powers ...
It’s not often you hear something dubbed “super” and find out that it’s also an eco-oriented product, but that’s just what the Superbus is. The students at UT Delft in the Netherlands have come up with a prototype Superbus, which is an electric-powered machine, sporting a carbon fiber shell, low chassis, and 16 individual gull-wing doors. Thanks to its lithium-polymer battery pack that powers ...
Metaltech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart
The Metaltech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart looks like one tough cookie, where it was built to withstand grenade attacks, although we're not too sure why would anyone lob a grenade on a golf course (which is another question altogether) due to the nature of a golf buggy-like design. This battery-powered Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart (Atac) costs a whopping $45,000, where you get firing ports that resemble a bulletproof golf buggy. It can move effortlessly in corridors and ...
The Metaltech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart looks like one tough cookie, where it was built to withstand grenade attacks, although we're not too sure why would anyone lob a grenade on a golf course (which is another question altogether) due to the nature of a golf buggy-like design. This battery-powered Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart (Atac) costs a whopping $45,000, where you get firing ports that resemble a bulletproof golf buggy. It can move effortlessly in corridors and ...
Traveling with batteries and ordering gadgets online could soon get pricey
Here are two totally unrelated things I like to do: order gadgets and smartphones online, and travel with loads of spare batteries. Well, perhaps they’re not all that unrelated. Both offer a lot of convenience and save a good amount of cash, but with a new proposal from the U.S. Department of Transportation , that could all soon change. We’ve all seen exploding iPods, cell phones and laptops thanks to faulty Lithium-Ion batteries and connectors, so the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration wants to make air ...
Here are two totally unrelated things I like to do: order gadgets and smartphones online, and travel with loads of spare batteries. Well, perhaps they’re not all that unrelated. Both offer a lot of convenience and save a good amount of cash, but with a new proposal from the U.S. Department of Transportation , that could all soon change. We’ve all seen exploding iPods, cell phones and laptops thanks to faulty Lithium-Ion batteries and connectors, so the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration wants to make air ...
Textecution can prevent texting while driving
I’m sure we all know that texting while driving is slowly killing our young, and it should be no surprise that companies are coming out with applications to prevent texting while driving accidents from occurring.
For example, Textecution, an Android app that parents can install in their children’s phones. Textecution is designed to shut down texting send and receive functions if the phone is moving at 10 miles per hour or more.
Yes, that doesn’t help a ...
I’m sure we all know that texting while driving is slowly killing our young, and it should be no surprise that companies are coming out with applications to prevent texting while driving accidents from occurring.
For example, Textecution, an Android app that parents can install in their children’s phones. Textecution is designed to shut down texting send and receive functions if the phone is moving at 10 miles per hour or more.
Yes, that doesn’t help a ...
Airtrax omnidirectional wheels
Remember the adage of not reinventing the wheel? Well Airtrax decided to go against common sense by coming up with omnidirectional wheels that strangely enough, actually work! These will target industrial vehicles by rolling forward, back, sideways and diagonally. Hmmm, it would be interesting to see these make an appearance on passenger cars as it would surely go great lengths in helping those who suffer from difficulty in parallel parking, especially in tighter spots.
Remember the adage of not reinventing the wheel? Well Airtrax decided to go against common sense by coming up with omnidirectional wheels that strangely enough, actually work! These will target industrial vehicles by rolling forward, back, sideways and diagonally. Hmmm, it would be interesting to see these make an appearance on passenger cars as it would surely go great lengths in helping those who suffer from difficulty in parallel parking, especially in tighter spots.
Is wormhole travel possible? New Scientist says no
At the beginning of Avatar, one of the ship's technicians tells the crew that they've been in cryogenic stasis for over five years — the time it takes to get from Earth to Pandora. Makes you wonder how they got there, doesn't it? Today's chemical thrusters wouldn't fit the bill: Apollo 10, our fastest manned spacecraft ever, would take 120,000 years on a trip to Alpha Centauri, the closest known star system to our own.
New Scientist has a ...
At the beginning of Avatar, one of the ship's technicians tells the crew that they've been in cryogenic stasis for over five years — the time it takes to get from Earth to Pandora. Makes you wonder how they got there, doesn't it? Today's chemical thrusters wouldn't fit the bill: Apollo 10, our fastest manned spacecraft ever, would take 120,000 years on a trip to Alpha Centauri, the closest known star system to our own.
New Scientist has a ...
Auto-warning gadget gets affordable
The UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) recently announced that they will offer an affordable auto-warning device that wil further reduce the load on your pockets via free downloadable updates. This auto-warning device aism to prevent private pilots from infringing controlled airspace and/or crashing into obstacles including (but not limited to) factory chimneys and broadcast antennae. According to Gretchen Burrett, NATS safety honcho, “Infringements into controlled airspace are a serious safety concern for private and commercial pilots. ...
The UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) recently announced that they will offer an affordable auto-warning device that wil further reduce the load on your pockets via free downloadable updates. This auto-warning device aism to prevent private pilots from infringing controlled airspace and/or crashing into obstacles including (but not limited to) factory chimneys and broadcast antennae. According to Gretchen Burrett, NATS safety honcho, “Infringements into controlled airspace are a serious safety concern for private and commercial pilots. ...
Audi A8 To Offer EDGE And Google Earth
GPS navigators are fairly common in luxury cars nowadays, but about Google Earth? Well, Audi will be offering the option of a built-in navigation system for their 2011 model that comes complete with Google Earth and a GPRS/EDGE modem. 3G would have been a lot nicer, but considering that you don’t see Google Earth on cars everyday, it’s certainly not the end of the world. There isn’t any mention ...
GPS navigators are fairly common in luxury cars nowadays, but about Google Earth? Well, Audi will be offering the option of a built-in navigation system for their 2011 model that comes complete with Google Earth and a GPRS/EDGE modem. 3G would have been a lot nicer, but considering that you don’t see Google Earth on cars everyday, it’s certainly not the end of the world. There isn’t any mention ... 
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