How To Generate Electricity With A Bicycle [Video]
Hurricane Sandy left 7 million people without power. Chris Hackett, a Brooklyn-based artist who converts trash into useful objects, wants to help people prepare for the next power outage by teaching...
View ArticleCrowdfund A Collapsible RC Tricopter
The three-rotor SwitchBlade, a small, collapsible drone that's already raised $32,810 on Kickstarter, is designed to compete with radially symmetric quadrotors in the realms of search and rescue,...
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Lockheed Martin Is Developing A Hypersonic Spy Plane
SR-72 Concept Art Where we're going, we don't need windows. Lockheed Martin The SR-71 Blackbird, iconic supersonic Cold War spy plane adopted by the X-Men as their vehicle of choice, might finally...
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Get Lost In These Extremely Detailed Maps Of A Fictional Continent
Scansey Regional Rapid Rail Transit Map Norscand The R2 is the best way to travel from Banboil to Tarvail, but passengers who opt for the direct route never stumble upon what Berlou has to offer....
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With Help From Bubbles, Tiny Motors Neutralize Chemical Weapons
Micromotors Joseph Wang Neutralizing chemical weapons typically requires large and complicated machinery that may not be available to soldiers in the field. To help solve this problem, a team of...
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Bug-Inspired Candy Boats Add Science To Your Cocktail
A Flotilla Of Cocktail Boats Lisa J Burton, Nadia Cheng, Cesar Vega, Jose André and John W M Bush After attending a Harvard series on food and science, MIT mathematician John Bush and molecular...
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This Is The FAA's Plan For Drone-Friendly Skies
Drones And Their Pilots Drones: both a pilot and a machine! Federal Aviation Administration The United States is one step closer to a more drone-filled future. The Federal Aviation Administration,...
View ArticleLady Gaga Hovers In A Drone [Video]
On the eve of debuting her album Artpop, Lady Gaga stepped inside a drone and flew... several feet. Her drone dress, fitting with the Gaga aesthetic, blends the classical forms of a Venus de Milo-esque...
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Iran Unveils New Reaper-Sized Drone
Iran's Fotros Drone Iran's latest unmanned flying camera with bombs. Al Alam Today Iran unveiled the Fotros drone, their largest unmanned aircraft to date. According to Iranian state-affiliated news...
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A Hand-Crank GIF Player
GIFs, those short, silent, looping animations found all over the internet, are wonderful. But what if some apocalyptic event wipes out the internet? How will you view your favorite GIF? The Giphoscope,...
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Using Folk Music To Track Human Migration
Traditional Dance Group Of Taiwan's Tsou People The Tsou are one of the aboriginal Taiwanese groups whose music researchers studied. 小卡 via Wikimedia Commons Where humans go, they bring their culture...
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Inside The Zumwalt Destroyer
Zumwalt In Maine U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy's Zumwalt destroyer, the most technologically advanced warship ever built and the first of its eponymous class, was set to be christened October 19, but then...
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China Tests New Stealth Drone
Sharp Sword On The Runway Global Times Yesterday, China's new stealth drone flew for the first time, according to Chinese state media. The drone is an unmanned flying wedge, similar to American flying...
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See Comet Tails Flap In Solar Wind
Last Thursday, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) captured images of two comets passing through solar wind. At the center is Comet Encke, and emerging later is Comet ISON. STEREO...
View ArticleWatch A Machine Tell The Difference Between Soda And Liquid Explosives
The problem with liquid explosives, besides being explosive, is that they often look just like non-explosive liquids. Since 2006, to protect against the threat of those explosives, people traveling...
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The 8 Greatest GIFs Of BigDog In Action
A Pair Of Robots On A Stroll The LS3, a robotic pack-mule developed by Boston Dynamics, is the latest bot to be greeted with ubiquitous Terminator quips. Boston Dynamics The BigDog family of robots,...
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How A Battleship Works [Vintage Infographic]
How A Battleship Works Click here to see a larger version of this image. S.W. Clatworthy, Popular Science The age of battleships is long over. The United States built the USS Missouri, the nation's...
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Why Amazon's Plan For Delivery Drones Isn't Quite Realistic
Amazon Prime Air Octorotor Amazon.com We've had a laugh at drone-delivery marketing gimmicks before, and Amazon Prime Air—announced yesterday during a flattering segment on 60 Minutes—may very well be...
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Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]
Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn't immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic...
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Military Secret Rooms Not As Soundproof As Intended
President Obama Inside A SCIF In A Rio De Janiero Hotel Room President Obama authorizes military action in Libya inside a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility," made inside his hotel room in...
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