eGallon Calculator Compares Running Costs Of Electric vs. Gasoline Vehicles

You can’t miss the media hype surrounding electric vehicles and supposed savings in running costs. Your interest is now piqued. Now you want to calculate how much you would save running electric compared to your…

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Flexible Solar Cells Mounted On Everyday 8.5 x 11 Paper

Miles Barr, an MIT student studying chemical engineering, was awarded the 2012 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for his innovative “Printed Paper Photovoltaics” or “3PV” design. The design competition was funded by Italian oil company Eni…

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The World’s Fastest And Tallest Roller Coasters

International Amusement Installations or Intamin manufactures and sells rides, thrill rides and transportation systems. All told, they have the tallest and fastest rides in the world, the rides with the most inversions, and some of…

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NASA’s $1.5 million Unmanned Aircraft Competition: Can You Make The Skies Safer?

NASA has so many missions it’s hard to keep track of them all: there is a directory listing current and future missions, a launch schedule and the history of past missions. In the coming months…

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Swarm Robotics Mimicking Human Behavior

Humans “swarm” when they get together on opposite sides of a battle field and prepare to fight. The winner is usually the side with the stronger, smarter technology combined with bravery and a superior strategic…

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Biomedical Engineering Is Revolutionizing Medicine

According to Professor Saltzman of Stanford University, biomedical engineering takes science, mathematics and engineering and applies it to improving human health. This article is a quick overview of some of the older technologies and activities…

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Big Ben And The London Eye’s New Rival, 35 Story ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture (Slide Show)

After an Olympics costing the British $14.5 billion (9.3 billion pounds) the ArcelorMittal Orbit remains controversial. The “random and chaotic” design or what the Guardian called “the infinitely looping lattice” of the $24 million (16…

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Oculus Rift Is The Virtual Reality Headset Gaming Has Been Waiting For

Oculus Rift, a product of Oculus VR Inc. (OR), is a headset that fully immerses a player into a game; the platform also has a “Head Tracking Kit” allowing developers to write software for the…

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With More Than 4 Billion Years Experience, Is Nature The Best Engineer?

National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge – Sustainability Building sustainable societies using nature as a model is one of humanities great challenges and is a key to our future according to the National Academy of…

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Planet IQ Can Improve Environmental Disaster Predictions, Saving Millions

In a recent IndustryTap article on hurricanes, MIT professor of atmospheric science, Emanuel describes the US weather data collecting system as hopelessly out of date and behind the times so that scientists and engineers are…

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