Using Residual Nerve Reinnervation To Control Prosthetic Limbs

New Hope For Amputees Dr. Todd Kuiken of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has developed a new surgical procedure that uses residual nerve signals to control a prosthetic limb. Called Targested Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) surgeons…

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78 Killed, 180 Injured As Spain Train Derails At 118 MPH

The world is coming to grips with the horror of the third major train derailment in the past month, this one a dramatic train crash in Santiago de Compostela Spain that killed at least 78…

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New Kevlar Bike Might Be The World’s Fastest

It’s a very strange shape and it’s made out of Kevlar and fibreglass, you may be still trying to figure out what it is but according to its creator, it’s a bike and it might…

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Google Launches $35 Chromecast Video Streaming To Rival Apple TV

Google is making another foray into the living room with the Chromecast, a small $35 dongle that allows users to stream videos from a phone or tablet to their TV using Chrome. Essentially, it turns…

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$33 Trillion Needed To Meet Emission Targets by 2035

Some might call the idea of a profitable $33 trillion (that’s $33,000,000,000,000) investment plan to fix the planets woes “woolgathering” or “oneirism”; if nothing else it dramatizes and presages the magnitude of the task. But…

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Nissan’s Electric Race Car To Hit Speeds Over 180 MPH

In the latest move for electric vehicles, Nissan has revealed their work on an electric racing car that can hit speeds of over 180mph. Taking cues from the Nissan LEAF, the manufacturer’s first 100% electric…

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High Octane Attempt To Birth A Baby Sun

It may sound like an automobile factory but the National Ignition Facility (NIF), finished in 2009, is the world’s largest laser with 192 intense laser beams delivering 60 times more energy than any previous system;…

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World’s Largest 300-Step Rube Goldberg Machine Designed At Purdue University

The World’s Largest “Rube Goldberg” Machine was recently designed and built at Purdue University but what is a Rube Goldberg machine? The Rube Goldberg Institute is a clearinghouse for information on the history of the…

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Chennai, India Quickly Becoming The World’s Top Automobile Producer

The automobile industry in the United States has found it a “difficult road to drive” in recent decades as it has sought to recover from the onslaught of clearly superior foreign automobiles. From the 1970s…

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Microdrones Are Helping Us See The World Like Never Before

Remote control mini drones or micro drones are now being used for a plethora of important applications. These include aerial mapping services, search and rescue, inspection services like power line monitoring, police security, aerial surveillance,…

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