Architecture
The World’s Largest Floating Airport, Tokyo Bay’s Megafloat
Eighty percent of land in Japan is mountainous and plains between them are close to completely populated with residential and business buildings.…
World’s Largest Indoor Beach Resort Cost $100 Million
An hour south of Berlin, Germany sits the Tropical Islands…
The $300 House: Not Charity, Innovation!
Some believe home ownership is a key to a feeling…
Largest Power Generating Hydroelectric Dams in the World
According to IEEE Spectrum energy from water makes up about…
Automotive
Lamborghini Aventador LP-720-4 50th Anniversary Edition Limited To 200 Units
As if driving a normal Aventador wasn’t exclusive enough, now you can up your supercar cred by placing an order for the…
Urban Single Seater Renault Twizy Borrows From Its F1 Brother
We’ve seen plenty of high-end sports cars borrow technology from…
What Can We Do With All The Used Electric Car Batteries?
Researchers in Tennessee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)…
Mercedes-Benz Unimog, Work In Style
From the company that sold the world’s first bus in…
Aviation
NetJets, Jet-Sharing When You Don’t Need A Plane All The Time (Video)
Fractional ownership, pioneered by Richard Santulli of NetJets, now owned by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, has 6,300 employees globally, primarily in…
Mars One Gets 80,000 Applications in Two Weeks, Can It Work?
There will be an attempt to reach Mars and colonize…
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Problematic Battery System Raises More Questions
Following on from a fire on board a Boeing 787…
Will Alaska’s Cleveland Volcano Eruption Disrupt Air Travel?
Scientists are monitoring the remote Cleveland Volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian…
Construction
Removing Billions Of Vehicle Miles With Cost-Effective Electric Monorails
The world’s oldest operating transportation monorail (“schwebebahan” in German) built in 1901 in Wuppertal, Germany, stretches 8.3 miles (13.3 km), has 20…
Three Gorges Dam Utopian Vision More Like An Ecological Catastrophe
Yangtze River Has Been Crippled According to a Chinese proverb…
Tidal Power Generation Picking Up, $500 Million Worldwide Market By 2015 (Video)
Interaction between the Earth and Moon, two huge masses that…
Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016
All the World’s a . . . Game It has…
Design
One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020
According to scientists, humanity has begun its next major shift: we are now entering the “Hybrid Age”. Across the entire range of…
Engineers Vying for $250,000 Sikorsky Prize, Unclaimed for 30 years
In 1983 the American Helicopter Society put up a $250,000…
In Depth: Industrial Internet Will Add $15 Trillion to Global GDP by 2030
The Industrial Internet is described as an “ecosystem of connected…
Epic Engineering Failures Can Lead to Massive Loss of Life
Failure is a part of life and serves as a…
Energy
A French Nuclear Disaster Could Cost $7.5 Trillion Dollars, Three Times Their GDP
Perhaps the most poignant image of the Fukushima nuclear disaster may be the mystic four foot-high 700 year old stone, reportedly one…
Oslo Running Out Of Trash, How Much Is Yours Worth?
Oslo, Norway is a city of 1.4 million people that…
New Light Bulb Cuts Energy Usage In Half, Doubles Light Output
Philips has developed a new light bulb, which it claims…
Siemens CX 400 Turbine Producing 12 Megawatts of Energy
The British gas turbine specialists, Centrax, have begun a number…
Engineering
Now Is The Time For An Engineering Renaissance
When we look at the Renaissance of the 15th century, it’s printing press, parachute, mariners astrolabe, dry-docks improved shipbuilding, not to mention…
What Caused The Bangladesh Building To Collapse Killing Over 800?
Sudden Restart of Huge Generators & Thousands of Sewing Machines…
Mega Trends April 2013, Lambo Police Cars, Supersonic Aircraft And More…
Architecture When you think of architecture you don’t often think…
Retractable Roof Stadiums: Fans Love Them But At What Cost?
In 1980 Syracuse University, in upstate New York, opened the…
Technology
$1 Billion In Digital Currency, Is Bitcoin Electronic Gold?
New Virtual Currecy Bitcoin is a virtual digital currency payment system for worldwide payments with low or zero processing fees and no…
First Successful Cloned Stem Cells Created From Human Skin Cells
It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned…
5 Steps To Isolate Your Own DNA
Molecular biologist D Barry Starr runs the Tech Museum of Innovation at…
Global Collaboration Key to Major Innovation
According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2012 report (464…
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Sun’s Huge Solar Eruption Has Particles Traveling Over One Million MPH (Video)
A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at over a million miles per hour. This CME occurred on…
US Military Biomimetic Tagging Preventing Electronic Counterfeits
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Army Research Office (ARO) have announced the development of optical scanning technology that will be able to identify counterfeit electronic components. The technology is hoped to prevent any bogus army materiel. ARO first began exploring the possibilities of…
