The TF-X Will Be the First Flying Car That Actually Works Like a Flying Car. Image: The TF-X concept from Terrafugia The dawn of the flying car is nigh.
A company called Terrafugia has been working to bring the first airborne sedan, the Transition, to the masses since 2006. Yesterday, it announced that it will finally deliver its first unit in 2015. Unfortunately, the clumsy Transition is really nothing like the flying cars humans have fantasized about zipping around in ever since the Jetsons.
But Terrafugia also announced that it's working on an alternate model, the TF-X, that is: a vehicle that will take off vertically with rotor propellers, fly with the wings of a private jet, and drive like a street-legal sedan. See, the Transition, the one coming to market in two years, is more private jet than flying car. So all you flying car aficionados out there might want to save your cash until Terrafugia introduces the TF-X. The TF-X is everything the Transition is not: it's a leap forward. Sure, it's still a little goofy.
Activism. Tech and environment. Terrence Howard walks away. EBONI President Chris Hyacinthe chatted with Terrence Howard for about two hours in the Semel Theater.
Terrence Howard, an Oscar-nominated actor known for roles in Hustle & Flow and Red Tails, surprised his audience in the Semel Theater Tuesday by saying that he plans to change his career focus. In an Inside the Actor’s Studio-style interview, Emerson’s Black Organization with Natural Interests President Chris Hyacinthe talked with the actor for almost two hours. They touched on acting, perseverance, and science — which Howard said is his actual passion. “I want to debunk Einstein,” Howard said with a sly grin, while the audience laughed.
According to an interview with legendary film critic Roger Ebert, before being discovered as an actor, Howard studied chemical engineering during his time at the Pratt Institute, which ended its engineering program in 1993. He elaborated that he plans to experiment with the use of diamonds as medical tools. But he’s not necessarily done with acting yet. About the Foresight Institute. Mission — promoting transformative technologies Foresight Institute is a leading think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies.
Founded in 1986, its mission is to discover and promote the upsides, and help avoid the dangers, of nanotechnology, AI, biotech, and similar life-changing developments. Foresight is the primary force pushing for the kind of nanotechnology that will truly transform our future, from medicine to the environment to space settlement. This advanced form of nanotechnology has been variously called atomically precise manufacturing (APM), molecular manufacturing, or productive nanosystems, and should be distinguished from the bulk of current efforts in nanotechnology, which are focused on materials science and simple nanodevices. Foresight's mission is to: Christine Peterson introduces the Foresight Institute List of all Thiel Foundation event videos Foresight Activities Foresight Activities include:
27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012. Looking beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory. Physicists have proposed an experiment that could force us to make a choice between extremes to describe the behaviour of the Universe.
The proposal comes from an international team of researchers from Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Singapore, and is published October 28 in Nature Physics. It is based on what the researchers call a 'hidden influence inequality'. This exposes how quantum predictions challenge our best understanding about the nature of space and time, Einstein's theory of relativity. "We are interested in whether we can explain the funky phenomena we observe without sacrificing our sense of things happening smoothly in space and time," says Jean-Daniel Bancal, one of the researchers behind the new result, who carried out the research at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
He is now at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. Excitingly, there is a real prospect of performing this test. Rolling Jubilee. 7.7 Earthquake Hits Where The Worlds Largest Geoengineering Experiment Took Place. A 7.7 Earthquake hit the coast of British Columbia on Saturday night, and there has since been as many as 40 aftershocks today.
Including one that measured 6.4 in magnitude. The quake sent many residents on the coast, fleeing for higher ground due to tsunami warnings. That where issued as far away as Hawaii. Faith on the Move Weighted Map - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Faith on the Move Weighted Map - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Political. Sustainability. People in the news. Electrosensitivity - MYSTERY IN THE SKIN. MYSTERY IN THE SKINScreen dermatitis, the effect of computer work on human skin.
An interview with associate professor Olle Johansson at the Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. Helge Tiainen, former head of the Nokia Consumer Electronics in Sweden once said that "The results of Olle Johansson's research could very well deeply shake the world's electronics industry, but mankind still has to know! " Some interests might feel threatened by the results of his research, but professor Johansson has been outspoken and committed to this scientific field. He started in the 1980's and he has since been continuously very productive and an advocate for the electrosensitive persons in Sweden as well as around the world. He has written a number of important scientific original articles as well as a great number of commentaries and debate articles in the daily newspapers.
Professor Johansson:The reason is simple, I am afraid. FEB:Mr.