How Technology Keeps You Safe With Engines Spinning at 100,000 RPM

The thrust from a turbine is generated through hundreds of precision blades spinning at 100,000 rpm. These blades have to be precision machined to a precise airfoil. If even one of these blades does not…

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Million-Year Data Storage Disk May Outlast Mankind

The amount of data that can be stored has increased enormously since IBM introduced the world’s first commercial computer capable of storing 5MB of data on a 24-inch diameter magnetic disk drive back in 1956.…

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Geostellar Plans to Revolutionize Shopping in the Solar Industry

As a homeowner, have you ever weighed the options of going solar? Thanks to the start-up company Geostellar, U.S. homeowners will now have an online marketplace to compare pros and cons of leasing solar panels…

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Will the World’s Largest Solar Plant Become a Tourist Attraction?

Japanese smartphone company Kyocera recently initiated a 70 megawatt solar panel in Kagoshima, in the south of the country. The Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant is the largest in the country and can power…

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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…

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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…

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$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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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