E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them.… Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.”
This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in industrial design as well as making films… Read the rest “Science Art: From United States Steel International, a porfolio of probabilities, by Syd Mead”
That’s what designers will be doing to make stores and furniture and *everything else* comfortable for aging Baby Boomer consumers. Discover looks at the way MIT is putting young… Read the rest “Wearing the senior citizen suit.”
Ars Technica looks at the defense industry of tomorrow, when secure factories are replaced by crowds of tinkerers:
… Read the rest “DARPA’s open factory.”[T]he agency’s Adaptive Vehicle Make project may reinvent manufacturing
This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were.
My understanding is that no new students were ever tested… Read the rest “Science Art: Testing Machine, from The New Students’ Reference Work, 1914.”
No, really. PopSci has more info on the Air Force’s new flying intelligence hub – an airship that uses lasers as fiber-optic cables:
… Read the rest “Laser zeppelins. You know, for spies.”…DARPA will outfit the Blue Devil
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality:
… Read the rest “Turning on the first tractor beams.”The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to do what has until now
Lando. Lando Calrissian. Cloud miner. Sounds like a great space opera profession, doesn’t it? But National Geographic is talking about exploiting the atmosphere for fuel:
… Read the rest “Air miner.”…[S]cience
SONG: “Move It Close to You.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed… Read the rest “SONG: Move It Close to You.”
In 1867, the typewriter was a ridiculous leap in technology.
The editor of Punch anticipated the next step:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “Good News for Bad Writers” (The Typewriter, Punch, September1867)”“Writing Superseded. — Mr. Pratt, of Alabama, is the
You wouldn’t think it would be emotional, but as this CBS report illustrates, that depends on if it’s the first time you’ve held hands with your paralyzed boyfriend… Read the rest “Touching robot fingers.”
Fast Company has its eyes on tomorrow’s dinner with a new application for 3D printing – food printed to order:
… Read the rest “Printed dishes.”The newest 3-D food printer, now being honed at [Cornell Creative
A playing card from a set explaining engineering tools to 18th century British players.
PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent:
… Read the rest “Test-tube steak will save Earth.”The analysis, carried out by scientists from Oxford
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