Windstalks, Land Art Generating Power While Looking Good

Engineers and designers often look to nature for ideas on how to solve technical issues.  There is a caveat: over design in nature often leads to extinction and over design in engineering can lead to the same outcome. The…

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BMW i8 Concept, Super Car Plug-In Hybrid

The BMW i8, first introduced as the BMW Concept Vision Efficient Dynamics, is a plug-in hybrid under development by BMW. The initial concept car was unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, and the BMW i8 concept car destined for production was unveiled at…

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Flying Robot Dragonfly, Hover and Fly

Tiny UAV is capable of hovering quietly in midair and taking high-definition pictures. Fancy yourself as James Bond and want to do some high-tech spying? Now you can with this palm-sized flying robot. Techject’s Robot…

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Solar Powered Plane, can it make it around the world?

The Solar Impulse solar-powered plane is every green traveler’s dream come almost true. It has already demonstrated it can fly day and night without any fuel – could this be the future of air travel? Solar Impulse…

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The Most Beautiful Bridge in the World, Millau Viaduct

The Millau Viaduct was born out of a growing tangle of traffic on the route from Paris to Spain. The worst area was the pass through the Tarn River gorge near the town of Millau.…

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World’s Longest Under Water Gas Pipeline, 1166km “Giant Serpent”

The Langeled Pipeline project, spearheaded by Exxon Mobil, Stat Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, was undertaken to exploit one of the world’s largest reservoirs of natural gas in Norway’s Ormen Lange (in Norse mythology: “Giant…

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Highest Outdoor Elevator in the World, Hundred Dragons Elevator

Bailong Elevator, also known as the Hundred Dragons Elevator, is a glass elevator built into the side of a rocky mountain range full of thousands of sandstone columns that rise up thousands of feet in…

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Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Aids Paralyzed Woman

A woman paralyzed from the neck down has surprised researchers in Pittsburgh with her skillful use of a mind-controlled robotic arm. While brain-controlled robotic limbs have been in development for a number of years now,…

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Largest US Public Works Project Costs $14.7 Billion, 5.6 Times Over Budget

The Big Dig, the largest public works project in US history, required $110,000,000 a month at its peak and poured 3.7 million cubic yards of concrete, nearly enough to build a sidewalk three feet wide…

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2,833 Kilometers on One Liter of Fuel – Shell Eco Marathon

After a nail-biting finish the French team Microjoule from La Joliverie have topped the Prototype leaderboard for the fifth consecutive year in a petrol-fuelled car. Chased by relative newcomers Team GAMF from Kecskemet College from…

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