The RAHT RACER: A 100 MPH Pedal Electric Hybrid Bicycle!
If you love biking to work, but face the problems like carrying certain important things, have a hard time riding in wet weather, and wish it to be faster and safer, then the Raht Racer…
World’s First Carbon Positive House Produces More Energy Than It Uses
ArchiBlox, a modular buildings specialist, has recently unveiled Australia’s first carbon-positive prefab home. A prototype of this prefab home has been installed in Melbourne’s City Square. This compact carbon-positive house with ‘edible garden walls’, a…
8-Bit Gun Made From an Old Game Boy, a Camera, a Thermal Printer, and Arduino
Useless items are sometimes the coolest items, and this 8-bit gun is certainly no exception. Moscow-based media-artist and musician Dmitry Morozov created the 8-bit camera gun out of an old Game Boy, a camera, a…
Check Out This POV Tour From the MS Renata Around the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands
Watching a container ship maneuver in and out of the nooks and crannies around a dock doesn’t sound intriguing, but it is actually more interesting than I’d like to admit. I, for one, have never…
Advances in Photonics Leading to Greener Electronic Manufacturing & Devices
Optoelectronics, aka “optronics,” is generally the use of visible light and circuitry in electronics and is part of the field of photonics. Optronic devices source, detect, and control light and convert electricity to light and…
Google Teaming Up With Johnson & Johnson to Build a Robotic Surgery Assistance Platform
Google and Johnson & Johnson announced today that the two companies will be working together in order to develop a robotic surgery assistance platform. The idea is to ultimately create “new robotic tools and capabilities,”…
A World Without Wires Pushing Limits of Wireless Spectrum
In just the past few days, Twitter has quickly brought its new real-time video streaming software, Periscope, to the iPhone to compete with startup competitor Meerkat which recently increased its usership by 250,000 in just…
The New Jaguar XF Sedan Just Drove Across the London Skyline on a High Wire, a World Record!
Jaguar Land Rover chose to forgo a normal car debut, instead opting to send the company’s new Jaguar XF luxury sedan cross a pair of 787 foot-long highwires over the waters of the Royal Docks…
NASA’s Earth Observing Satellite Fleet Improving Global Change Research
On January 27th, 2015 IndustryTap reported on: “NASA’s Newest Earth Observing Mission: Measuring Global Soil Moisture.” NASA is on a number of important missions and is using an Earth-observing satellite fleet to accelerate the acquisition of…
The Future of Farming? Golf-Cart Sized Autonomous, Energy-Efficient AgBots
IndustryTap has speculated on the future of farming in Vertical Farming Factories, Is this the New Face of Farming?, and Freight Farms, and while each of these types of farming will have its place in…
