Groovy Toyota Changes Colors to Match Your Mood
Remember how popular mood rings were in the 70s? Happy. Sad. Mad. Mood rings supposedly read your mood and change colors to match it. Toyota has come up with, what’s basically, a mood ring on…
Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs) Unveil Ocean’s Mysteries
According to scientists, 80% to 90% of the world’s oceans are unexplored. Humans may know more about the moon and outer space than oceans just 15 miles off the world’s coastlines. The Mariana Trench, the…
$100 Billion Transatlantic “VacTrain” Would Be Largest, Most Complex Project Ever
With the Seikan Tunnel connecting Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan completed in 1988 and the Channel Tunnel completed in 1994 still struggling to turn profits, it is questionable whether the $10 billion, sub-Alps, Gotthard Base Tunnel scheduled for…
Smog Eating Vacuum Cleaner to Suck Up Beijing’s Black Killer Mists
The common refrain to the young and ambitious from those who are older, wiser and more experienced is twofold: “follow your dreams” and “go where the opportunities lie.” This could mean: New York City for…
Delivery Drones: Amazon “Octocopters” Flying Packages To Your Doorstep
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has done it again. As early as 2015, Amazon Prime Air could be available to the public, specializing in package-delivering drones called “ocotocopters”. What Is An Octocopter? An octocopter is a…
Technology Outsmarts Mother Nature’s Fiery Fury
Climate change has altered weather patterns around the world. According to researchers, as the greenhouse gases warm the earth, we can expect more wildfires across the globe in the near future. Every year, forest fires…
Safer, Smaller Helium-Cooled Nuclear Reactors at Half the Price?
Last December, IndustryTap wrote “Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years,” in which young MIT engineers started a company using modernized nuclear reactor designs developed in the 1950’s. The company, Transatomic Power, with…
Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now
Last June, we touched on the construction of Sky City in Changsha, China, a towering structure that will peak at 838 meters high. Nearing its completion, the engineers and architects are already hailing it a…
4G-Loaded Smart Trench Coat Tells You When It’s Raining
Progress in technical fields has been enormous and we’ve come to rely on it in our day-to-day lives, so much so that we apparently need technology to tell us it’s raining outside. Techies have developed…
Philadelphia Pulls the Trigger to Become First City to Ban 3D Printed Guns
Philadelphia has voted unanimously to ban the production of firearms using 3D printers, becoming the first U.S. city to make printing any firearm or “any piece thereof” illegal. Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, author of the legislation,…
