Popular Science reveals a new way to check if a little thing really is what it’s labeled as:
… Read the rest “3D barcodes ensure pills (or microchips) are genuine.”Researchers from the University of Bradford and Sofmat, an anti-fraud technology company,
Popular Science warns us to slow down by construction sites and watch for self-driving trucks on Florida roads by year’s end:
… Read the rest “Self-driving trucks – no humans *at all* – on Florida’s roads this year.”The rigs, which are part of a Department of Transportation
Manufacturing.net explains how BMW put a pollution-free semi to work on the autobahn:
… Read the rest “There’s an all-electric big rig out on the road today….”The BMW Group began using an all-electric semi-truck to transport vehicle components from the SCHERM
This is a waterwheel, from a book written by architect and engineer Georg Andreas Boeckler, under the title Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria et aquatica constructum … Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. XLIII. Hydromylos, sive aquaria mola, 1662.”
Auto Guide (and a few other places) have been looking at… well, is the step before a driverless car or the step beyond? Anyway, it’s a thing where Jaguar/Land Rover is using NASA… Read the rest “The sports car that reads your mind.”
This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”
In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.
Found on GRIN.
An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention, the perpetual motion … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701”
Science Alert reports on a new train in China – not a design, an actual vehicle – that runs on hydrogen and leaves water for exhaust:
… Read the rest “Here’s a hydrogen-fueled train.”Manufactured by the Sifang Company, which
That’s what Nature is expecting to see, in its overview of the world of autonomous vehicles:
… Read the rest “Driverless cars in less than a decade”This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, UK, in electric shuttles
The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff:
… Read the rest “New materials are really cool. Like, make-your-own-unplugged-AC cool.”Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United States is devoted to [air
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene:
… Read the rest “Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.”Protons’ ability to travel through graphene
Popular Mechanics gets all excited over PayPal/Tesla Motors/SpaceX magnate Elon Musk’s next set of high-tech tricks, including drones and rockets with unfolding wings (in a Star… Read the rest “Elon Musk designs X-Wing rockets & spaceport drones.”
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