Exclusive: WinSun China builds world’s first 3D printed villa and tallest 3D printed apartment building Jan 18, 2015 | By Kira On March 29, 2014, ten 3D printed houses, each measuring 200 square meters, appeared in Shanghai, China. The buildings were created entirely out of concrete using a gigantic 3D printer, and each costs only 30,000 RMB ($4,800). Today, just ten months after the initial project, the company behind these 3D printed buildings, Shanghai WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co, made a new announcement that will take 3D printed buildings to a whole new level: they have built the highest 3D printed building, a 5-storey residential house and the world's first 3D printed villa. Now in their 12th year of business, WinSun holds 98 national patents for construction materials. Today's press conference attracted more than 300 building industry experts, investment bankers as well as media reporters. The company told us that the 3D printing villa was specially designed for Tomson Group, one of the most well-known Taiwanese-owned real estate company. 3D printed bricks
Engineers Retrofit a Tank with Jet Engines to Fight Oil Fires Dec 29, 2014 Hungarian engineers have created the ultimate fire extinguisher from a decommissioned Russian tank combined with the jets from a MiG-21 fighter jet. Known as the Big Wind, it’s capable of blowing powerful shots of water to stop oil fires in an instant. The real-life Matrix: MIT researchers reveal interface that can allow a computer to plug into the brain System could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brainCould lead to devices for treatment of conditions such as Parkinson's It has been the holy grail of science fiction - an interface that allows us to plug our brain into a computer. Now, researchers at MIT have revealed new fibres less than a width of a hair that could make it a reality. They say their system that could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, along with electrical readouts to continuously monitor the effects of the various inputs. Christina Tringides, a senior at MIT and member of the research team, holds a sample of the multifunction fiber that could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, along with electrical readouts to continuously monitor the effects of the various inputs. The new fibers are made of polymers that closely resemble the characteristics of neural tissues. Now researchers at MIT may have found a way to change that.
The Secret Material that Makes this High-Tech Wall Pretty Much Impenetrable is…Ceramic Beads? Conventional wisdom tells us that a few minutes of constant machine gun fire will tear any wall to shreds. After all, there is only so much damage concrete can take before it turns to sad, useless dust. Well, science just invented a new kind of wall that is a defensive marvel, able to withstand round after round of whatever you throw at it. The secret? Beads. Saab, the automobile manufacturer, has just unveiled its Barracuda Soft Armour system; a defensive wall made entirely out of ceramic beads. Thanks to the malleable nature of the beads, the walls are able to withstand machine gun fire and even armor-piercing bullets. This system is perfect for schools and other civilian-based areas as it causes no ricochet. It does weigh in at 180kg per square meter, which may not make it the perfect solution for vehicles, although it should pose no problem for heavier models. The armor can withstand small arms up to NATO 7.62mm AP ammunition (STANAG level III.) Do you want more videos?
Boeing Patents Electromagnetic Forcefield By Dutchsinse The patent is for a shockwave attenuation system, which consists of a sensor capable of detecting a shockwave-generating explosion and an arc generator that receives the signal from the sensor to ionise a small region, producing a plasma field between the target and the explosion using lasers, electricity and microwaves. See sources here You Might Also Like Promoted Content From The Web:Promoted Content From The Web:Promoted Content From The Web:Promoted Content From The Web:Promoted Content From The Web: If you enjoy our work, please donate to keep our website going.
Activist Post: World's First Wearable Drone Takes Flight Nicholas West Activist Post As Congress and the FAA continue to discuss the parameters of drone use, a widening array of them are already taking flight. A new exemption has been granted for Hollywood , only the second after one was granted to BP earlier this year. This latest exemption greatly widens the scope for commercial drone use. According to Fortune , 40 other companies have filed for exemptions to the ban under section 333 of FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. Given the favorable leanings mentioned above, new drone concepts go from merely being novel experiments to much more imminent threats to our privacy. A new invention seeks to merge drones with the booming trend of any sort of wearable tech or "augmented reality." As part of Intel's Make It Wearable contest, Nixie is being described as a "futuristic paparazzi boomerang" that can leave your wrist, take photos and return for delivery. Recently by Nicholas West:
Gas 2 | Bridging the gap between green heads and gear heads. Super-capacitors can store and release electricity like a battery, but can be recharged in seconds instead of hours. At the moment, they are usually made from graphene, a man-made super material that is 100 times stronger than steel by weight, conducts electricity better than copper, and is more flexible than rubber. Unfortunately, graphene is very costly to produce. A team of researchers led by David Mitlin at Clarkson University in New York have found a way to produce super-capacitors from an inexpensive hemp fiber left over from textile and building material construction that could pave the way for a mainstream super-capacitor. Mitlin admits that his hemp fiber can’t do everything that graphene can, but for energy storage it works just as well – and at a tiny fraction of the price. The American Chemical Society Journal ranks the hemp based material “on par with or better than commercial graphene-based devices”. Why is this important? Source | Images: Inhabitat
New Spy Tech Can Recover Voice Imprints From Physical Objects Activist Post Thanks to a new eavesdropping technology developed by MIT, speech can now be recovered from any physical object simply from the sound wave imprint left by an individual. Even more impressive is that researchers could detect speech from an object photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass, as well as analyze video recordings and extract the data from objects in a room even when the people targeted were off camera. You can see the full demonstration of how this "visual microphone" technology works, and how it combines with other similar discoveries, in three videos posted below. In our era of ever-increasing crazy spy tech, this discovery could open up a whole new array of surveillance applications. If you enjoy our work, please donate to keep our website going.
Boeing Patents Drones That Never Need to Land - Drone 360 : Drone 360 (Credit: Patent Yogi/YouTube) Limited flight times are such a drag — and Boeing seems to agree. The company just received a patent for its design for a drone that can remain airborne in perpetuity. Flight times are constrained by the amount of energy or fuel a drone can store on board. (Credit: United States Patent US009045218) Always Airborne According to Boeing’s patent, these forever-flyers would be blimp-like drones filled with a gas of some kind to keep them afloat. But here’s where it gets fun: When the batteries are low, Boeing’s drones would unfurl a tether, much like a butterfly proboscis, and link up with a power tower on the ground. These drones, the patent states, could be powerful surveillance tools, and it’s easy to see why. As explained by the Patent Yogi, a tethered powering system could be especially useful if drone delivery services get the green light in the United States.
The Google Team that Wants to Make Your Hand a Self-Contained Interface Control Using Radar Google’s Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects. The team adds: “Our hands are fast and precise instruments, but so far, we haven’t been able to capture their sensitivity and accuracy in user interfaces. However, there’s a natural vocabulary of hand movements we’ve learned from using familiar tools like smartphones, and Project Soli aims to use these motions to control other devices.
Defense.gov Deputy Secretary of Defense Speech: GEOINT Symposium 2015 Thank you for that introduction. I want to thank the Director here at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Robert Cardillo. He was the one who invited me to come here to speak this morning. I'm really happy to be here. What I want to do is talk to you this morning about what we need to do to prepare our armed forces and our national security community, and the entire space community that supports them, for a far more challenging future than we have experienced in the last two-and-a-half decades. So, I have four basic messages that I'd like to talk to you about this morning. We're at a pivotal moment in the post-Cold war world, in my view. While the United States retains enormous absolute power now and will retain enormous absolute power in the future, we will see its relative power decline as we enter a more multi-polar world in which the U.S. leadership of that world is more challenged. Now, let's think about China. These capabilities evolved throughout the Cold War.
Now We’re Even Going to Have a ''Smart'' Oven, Complete with Image Recognition Camera By Melissa Dykes Everything in the future is set to be “smart”; that is, it will be filled with technology, connected to the Internet of Things, and constantly making data. Now, we’re about to see a smart oven that comes complete with an image recognition camera. Forbes reports that, “The June oven will not only recognize what you put into the oven – say cookies or muffins – but also know how many you are putting in and automatically calculate the correct cook time and temperature.” Wow. The technology will be so smart we will barely have to do anything except stuff the food in the oven and walk off. Ain’t all this smart technology just great? Quick question though: is this really necessary? Aside from taking food selfies or capturing time-lapse of our meatloaf baking, are we really just going off the technological deep end here when everything in our houses is collecting image recognition data including of our food?
Back to the Future with Cargo Airship It looks like a blimp but technically it isn’t one because it has a rigid structure made out of ultra-light carbon fiber and aluminum underneath its high-tech Mylar skin. Inside, balloons hold the helium that gives the vehicle lift. Unlike hydrogen, the gas used in the Hindenburg airship that crashed in 1937, helium is not flammable. The Aeroscraft is being developed by Worldwide Aeros for use as a cargo aircraft that could bring a large load of supplies into areas without a prepared landing surface. According to an AP report posted at Military.com, the airship functions like a submarine, releasing air to rise and taking in air to descend. It can take off vertically, like a helicopter, then change its buoyancy to become heavier than air for landing and unloading. “It allows the vehicle to set down on the ground. DoD and NASA have invested $35 million in prototype testing so far, and Aeros is looking for more funding to start the next phase.