ANA and Toyota Teamed Up to Design More Comfortable Seats For a ‘Wide Range of Body Sizes’

Toyota has partnered with All Nippon Airways in an effort to design an airline seat that is comfortable for a “wide range of body sizes.” To avoid the hunched over feeling most plane seat gives…

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This is the First Full-Scale 3D-Printed Copper Rocket Engine Part From NASA

NASA has successfully 3D-printed the first full-scale copper rocket engine part, a combustion chamber liner. The component is required to operate at extreme temperatures and pressures, making developing the part a rather tedious endeavor. Chris…

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Rice University Engineers Develop Skin-Numbing 3D-Printed Capsule…. Make Shots Less Painful

Freshman engineers from Rice University have developed a 3D-printed capsule equipped with two sealed chambers, one filled with ammonium nitrate, and the other with water. The idea behind the capsule is to act similarly to…

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Bike Lane in Middle of Korean Highway Generates Power From Solar Energy

South Korea always comes up with great technological developments. We have been reading about paving parking lots and roads in solar panels, but now there is a 20-mile long bike lane generating power from solar energy in…

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The New BMW 7 Series Comes With a Key Fob That Allows the Car to Park Itself!

No one has actually seen the new BMW 7 Series without its camo wrapping yet, but that hasn’t stopped the public from getting excited about the brand new “ultimate driving machine.” The craziest, most unique…

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Using Waste Biofuel to Produce Renewable Propane

The image above may look like a bag of stale Cheetos, but they are far more than that: E-coli that can help in the process of making renewable propane. Propane is a relatively clean-burning alternative…

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Japanese Maglev Train That Just Broke 12-Year Speed Record Has Now Beat Its Own Record

A few days ago I wrote an article about Japan’s magnetic levitation bullet train breaking a world speed record that had stood for 12 years. That record didn’t last long, to say the least, because the…

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New Aluminum Battery Can Recharge Your Phone in Just 60 Seconds!

We were all happy to see rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries replacing the heavier and single use alkaline type batteries. But these Li-ion batteries are already struggling to meet ever-increasing power requirements. Smartphone users know that it…

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Crash Test Reveals Ford’s Aluminum F-150 is Safer Than Previous Steel Versions

While many people were worried about how Ford’s new aluminum-bodied trucks would hold up, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration might have put the debate to rest. They gave five stars for both the frontal…

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This Texas City Will Use Only Renewable Energy Sources by 2017

Texas produces large quantities of natural gas and has number of oil refineries. While Texas relies heavily on fossil fuels, renewable energy sources have also made great gains in the state, although, none of the…

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