Can This Electric Car Really Run On Salt Water? Unlike other electric cars, the new Quant e-Sportlimousine, now under development in Switzerland, never gets plugged in.
Instead, the car uses two huge tanks full of electrolyte fluids that are pumped through cells to generate electricity. The advantage? If it works as the designers hope, it will be able to drive as far as 370 miles on a charge. Compared to a traditional lead battery, the designers say their new flow cell battery system can store 20 times as much energy, so it can drive 20 times as far. That's also five times farther than the standard lithium ion batteries that many electric cars use now. 9 Design Ideas That Shaped The Web. El ordenador portátil orgánico del futuro: Plantbook. Can These Virtual Walls Transform A Tiny Windowless Apartment Into A Livable Space? As micro-apartments get smaller and smaller, will we eventually turn to virtual reality to stay sane inside them?
Interaction designer Bernardo Schorr thinks that in the not-so-distant future city dwellers could end up living in windowless 100-square-foot apartments, and he’s created a digital solution in response: Projections on apartment walls that make it seem like a tiny hovel is actually a nice space, complete with amazing views. “It’s made for a future in which having any windows at all would be a luxury,” Schorr says. “We might not really need these ‘mixed reality’ living spaces quite yet, but the project is made for a future in which we’ll need them to be able to cope with confinement and survive these smaller apartments.” These Robot Transformers Can Morph Into Furniture And Bring Your Coffee To You. You know what's wrong with furniture?
It just sits there. But what if your table could bring you a banana and coffee when you're hungover? What if, like an enchanted Beauty and the Beast castle full of spirited ottomans, your chair could anticipate your need to sit? Check Out SpaceX's Slick New Space Taxi, The Dragon V2. On Thursday night, SpaceX pulled the wraps off its brand-spankin'-new Dragon V2 spacecraft at its Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters.
During a live webcast, founder Elon Musk said, "It's all around I think a big leap forward in technology," adding that the seven-passenger, reusable spacecraft "really takes things to the next level. " Unlike its unmanned predecessor, the original Dragon CRS, the new space taxi will shuttle cargo and astronauts back and forth between Earth and the International Space Station--potentially allowing the U.S. to reduce its dependence on Russian Soyuz capsules for transport. This Professor Is Learning To Identify Bugs By Their Buzz. Can It Help Eradicate Malaria? A combination of hunger and disease kills millions of people each year in the developing world--especially diseases like malaria.
So an ambitious project to kill both epidemics with one panacea--like the one at University of California, Riverside--could change the lives of tens of millions of people. Using cutting edge machine techniques and inexpensive sensors, a small team of researchers led by Professor Eamonn Keogh thinks a solution lies in the sounds insects make in flight. He and his team are applying machine learning algorithms to recordings of insect noises in the hope that they can audibly identify an anodyne bug from a malicious one. Harebrained? Not to the Gates Foundation, which has shown interest to the tune of a $100,000 prize awarded as part of Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.
Morfogénesis. MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future. Ideo Imagines 18 Packaging Concepts For The Future. BMW Concept Car: GINA. Segway RMP Concept is Perfect for Loading and Parallel Parking. The Segway is a brand that continues to be talked about and modified.
Maybe it is the name, the product, or the different concepts created. Whatever the reason, we have to salute some of the ideas, such as the Ferrari Segway, and especially the new Segway RMP concept. This new design and wheel concept presents a little robotic surface that has the power to haul a normal sized individual. The awesome part is its ability to move in every which way…with an extremely attractive parallel parking possibility. Although another Driving Robot device has introduced it in the past (link), this presents it a lot more comfortably and potentially possible. So as these concepts are designed and presented, I am wondering…when will they bring this parallel parking possibility to our real vehicles.
Via: TechEBlog. Your iPhone's Afterlife. The old Motorola has been in the back of a drawer since 2004; the Nokia was beneath a pile of papers on the piano since early 2009 (I think).
In the United States, they're junk-drawer fodder, unwanted by a culture (and me) fixated on the next upgrade. For the environmentally minded, they're something much worse: e-waste, the catchall term for old electronic devices that nobody wants anymore. But in China, where I've taken a subway to the north side of Shanghai with a clear plastic bag that holds five old cell phones that I plan to sell at a used-electronics market, my old phones aren't e-waste. Rather, they're a low-cost means to provide wireless communication to some of the hundreds of millions who can't afford or don't want to pay for a new phone. RFID. The Simplest “Internet Of Things” Product Yet. Happy Black Friday!
Craft Works: Engineer Your Way To Rock Stardom With The LittleBits Synth Kit. If you ever hope to approach the level of coolness exuded by Reggie Watts, LittleBits's latest creation, the Synth Kit, might be your best bet.
Success is not guaranteed: Watts’s mastery, which you can view in all its glory above or over on his YouTube page, takes time, creativity, ingenuity, and talent. But, with the Synth Kit, amateurs can at least start to make some noise. The Synth Kit, like the other littleBits kits, “breaks down technology into its very basic parts to bring the power of electronics to everyone,” LittleBits CEO Ayah Bdeir explained to Fast Company. But instead of using bits to build motors, lights, and motorized lights, the 12 magnetic pieces in this box click together to build an analog synthesizer, much like the ones sold by KORG, a partner for this project and an icon in the synthesizer world.
They can also hook up to any other non-musical LittleBits bits. Should Your Product Connect To The Internet Of Things? Thanks to widespread Internet adoption and over 10 billion connected devices around the world, companies today are more excited than ever about the Internet of Things.
These High-Tech Underwear Keep Your Farts From Smelling. Ikhana Pop: Meet NASA's Predator Drone. Note: This is the first in a series of stories about NASA's unmanned aerial system program. The first thing NASA wants you to know is that they don't like The D Word. Minutes after I crossed through the security checkpoint at California's Edwards Air Force Base and embarked on a long drive past ancient dry lake beds to Dryden Flight Research Center, the agency made it very clear. NASA's Kevin Rohrer was giving a talk before my media group, which was visiting the space agency's unmanned flying vehicle fleet. He told us that although we could use any words we like to discuss unmanned aircraft, “for our purposes today, it's unmanned aircraft systems please.” The Peachy Printer - The First $100 3D Printer & Scanner! by Rinnovated Design. MIT Researchers Unveil A New, Smarter Way To 3-D Print.
3-D printing has become the rallying cause for a rising generation of designers, engineers, and architects. SkyCall quadcopter by MIT Senseable City Lab. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a flying robot that can guide people around complex urban environments or aid search-and-rescue missions, in an attempt to show that drones can perform useful tasks as well as sinister ones (+ movie).
Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data, And 3-D Printing Are All Nearing The Top Of The Hype Cycle. What Keeps NFC From Explosive Growth? A Gateway Product. A Robot Lumberjack Chainsaws Trees Into Chairs. LS3 Follow Tight. Second Industrial Revolution. The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution,[1] was a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution corresponding to the latter half of the 19th century until World War I. It is considered to have begun around the time of the introduction of Bessemer steel in the 1860s and culminated in early factory electrification, mass production and the production line. The Second Industrial Revolution was characterized by the build out of railroads, large scale iron and steel production, widespread use of machinery in manufacturing, greatly increased use of steam power, and by electrical communications.
The Second Industrial Revolution saw rapid industrial development, primarily in Britain, Germany and the United States, but also in France, the Low Countries and Japan. It followed on from the First Industrial Revolution that began in Britain in the late 18th century that then spread throughout Western Europe and North America. Industry and technology[edit] Iron[edit] U.S. 625 Outdated Remote Controls Become A Remarkable Infrared Screen.