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Japanese geek builds awesome giant beetle robot for some reason (video) We are all doomed. A Japanese man from Ibaraki Prefecture with too much time has built a gigantic bug mecha that not only looks awesome but also actually works. Takahashi-san is 60 and has begun building the thing in 1998 and now owns a fifteen ton robot. The monster is an impressive eleven meters long. The mecha, dubbed Kabutom RX-03, is equipped with a cool control panel, can be remote-controlled (which is especially awesome) and is shaped like a rhinoceros beetle. This is what I call a cool hobby project (Takahashi is an engineer, after all). Powered Paragliding Resources General | Services | Weather | Motors |Props | Wings | Accessories | Clinics | Repairs 2011-01-05 FlyMaster added in Accessories These are printed or other materials and internet links that can be useful to pilots and potential pilots. It will be updated as new items are added. The two images in the upper-right corner are sized to be screen savers for popular monitor sizes.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE PARTS We sell all your ELECTRIC VEHICLE Parts - Ask about our customized Packages. Email us for our Monthly Craigslist Specials. ( check below also). Due to the price of oil, and delivery and shipping costs ourPRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT WARNING. RETURNS and CANCELLATIONS subject to a 25% Restocking fee, no exceptions. Flying drone controlled with mind power Researchers in China have produced a system to control a quad-rotor drone with the mind Image Gallery (4 images) Researchers based at Zhejiang University in China have produced a system for controlling a quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle with the mind. Dubbed "Flying Buddy 2", the system uses a standard, commercially-available Electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, a computer and a Parrot AR Drone. The computer processes the data received from the EEG and converts it into control commands which are beamed to the drone via a Wi-Fi connection. Judging by the video, the latency of the setup appears to be relatively low.
Electric Bicycle Twist Throttle LED Battery indicator and Key Switch (China Manufacturer) - Motorcycle Parts & Components - Transportation Country/Region: Zhe Jiang - China Business Nature: Manufacturer Phone: Contact: Why immersive virtual reality is the next generation of gaming: part 1 FOV2GO (credit: USC/MxR) It’s now obvious that immersive virtual reality is finally back in the consumer market — with a vengeance. Especially with the recent advent of FOV2GO, a free DIY portable fold-out iPhone and Android viewer that turns the smartphone screen into a 3-D VR system. You can create one with foamboard and 2 cheap plastic lenses, and downloadable software lets you create your own virtual worlds or environments to display. G4S, Multi-Touch Screen, Thinner, Smoother and Better Performance The latest PQ Labs G4S Multi-Touch overlay not only boasts a finger-width frame size, it also incorporates over three years’ product improvements and innovation. With its incredible coin thickness and near-flush surface design, G4S offers an elegant and accurate touch experience for both integration and as an overlay to an existing monitor. Celebrating 3 Years of Technology Advancement: • 2010 - Finger Width Slim Bezel (G3 Integration Kit)
Our Fabulous Future: Corporate America’s Great Tech-Utopia Movies The best way to predict the future, as Alan Kay famously said, is to invent it. For decades, however, well-known technology companies have tried an easier approach: filming it. They’ve done so in the form of short movies featuring mocked-up versions of the wondrous technologies that will be everyday realities for the consumers of tomorrow. Airbus unveils its 2050 vision for ‘Smarter Skies’ Global aircraft manufacturer Airbus today releases the latest instalment of the Future by Airbus, its vision for sustainable aviation in 2050 and beyond. For the first time the vision looks beyond aircraft design to how the aircraft is operated both on the ground and in the air in order to meet the expected growth in air travel in a sustainable way. Charles Champion, Executive Vice President Engineering at Airbus, says: “Our engineers are continuously encouraged to think widely and come up with `disruptive’ ideas which will assist our industry in meeting the 2050 targets we have signed up to. These and the other tough environmental targets will only be met by a combination of investment in smarter aircraft design and optimising the environment in which the aircraft operates. That is why our latest Future by Airbus Smarter Skies concepts focus on not just what we fly but, how we may fly in 2050 and beyond.” Aircraft take-off in continuous ‘eco-climb’
Mysterious bird-like drone may have popped up in both Iraq and Pakistan, origin still unknown Madison Ruppert The quite strange unarmed bird-like drone which was recovered by Pakistani forces in August of 2011 apparently did not just fly over Pakistan, but was also apparently spotted by Iraqi insurgents at least two years before making its way to Pakistan. One might jump to the conclusion that the drone belongs to the United States since the U.S. is involved a great deal of drone operations in Pakistan – which the Pakistani parliament has unanimously declared must end. It also appears to be similar to some of the drone projects which are leaning towards designs influenced by birds and insects. A reader of The Aviationist tipped them off to a video posted on May 28, 2009 showing the drone captured by the Iraqi Hezbollah in Iraq which is eerily similar to the drone which was captured in Pakistan.
Future - Technology - Lighter-than-air craft rise again A behind the scenes look at the project to build a radical new airship that could soon criscross our skies. If you like the idea of cruising on a ship in laid-back luxury, but prefer the speed and convenience of air travel, there may soon be a solution. Drawing their inspiration from the airships of yesteryear, a new generation of airship-like vehicles could soon be making their way across our skies. In a hangar outside Tustin in California, engineers are preparing one of the most radical designs for testing. The Aeroscraft, as it is known, is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak and has been made possible by advances in materials and computer control systems. “We are resurrecting [the airship] with new composite fabric structures, that are stronger, lighter, more versatile” says Fred Edworthy, of Aeros, the company building the lighter-than-air vehicle.
Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer—a few hundred million years at least. The company on Monday unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever. And for anyone who updated their LP collection onto CD, only to find they then needed to get it all on MP3, a technology that never needs to change might sound appealing. The Most Interesting Developments in Nanotechnologies Nanomachine, nanogenerator, nanoelectronics – but most of all, the innovations relate to the field of nanomedicine. The most interesting developments (till now) in nanotechnologies in are: Nanomachine Researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Swiss Research Laboratory of Materials Science and Technology created a prototype of nano-sized car. It is a large molecule with four symmetrical elements that play a role of the wheels. Moves it to the electrical charge coming from the probe electron microscope.