Private IMAX Theaters Now Being Installed on Superyachts

IndustryTap has written a number of articles on superyachts (see list below) that cost from $300 to $500 million. But we’ve never seen superyachts with private IMAX theaters. Superyachts are getting bigger with the largest…

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Global Internet Performance Tracking Saves Time & Resources

According to researchers who do internet performance tracking, people spend from 30 to 60 minutes a day, every day, waiting for transportation, on hold, at bus stop, for a train, for a computer to boot…

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Northrop Grumman’s XS-1 Supersonic Spaceplane Looks to Secure DARPA Contract

Northrop Grumman’s XS-1 Spaceplane concept is competing with a few other companies in order to score a “space taxi” contract from the Defense Advanced Research Products Agency (DARPA). To entice us, the company recently showed…

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New Spectacle: Quadcopter (UAV) Video Footage Inside Exploding Fireworks

We have been watching pyrotechnic shows for millenia but it is not until the last couple of years that we could view a show from such close quarters: now we can watch a show from…

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Solar Workers Now Outnumber Coalminers

Politifact reports that there are now more solar workers in the United States than coalminers. Nonprofit organization, Solar Foundation, claims there were 142,698 solar employees as of November 2013. On the other hand, the United…

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1,000 People Eating The World’s Hottest Pepper at Once…. Watch!

Danish entertainer, Chili Klaus, recently hosted an event where 1,000 people voluntarily ate ghost chili, the hottest pepper in the world! The pepper is approximately 200 times hotter than a jalapeño, making the reactions of…

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The Debate of the Black Hole Paradox

Anyone who would write a paper claiming black holes don’t really exist might be viewed in the scientific community as foolish or even crazy. That’s not the case if you happen to be Stephen Hawking.…

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The Ancient Art Of Bamboo Scaffolding At Risk As “Spider” Workers Dwindle

“Safer Than Steel” Bamboo Scaffolding, Now A Dying Art One of my biggest surprises when visiting Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China in the early 1990’s was the use of bamboo scaffolding in the construction of…

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Pininfarina, The Company That Designs Ferraris, Has Created an $11,000 Bicycle

Italian design firm Pininfarina is most notable for helping design Ferraris but the company recently decided to think outside the box by creating an $11,000 bicycle. Technically, I guess you could say the bike, called…

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Put The Lime in the Coconut and Turn Coconut Coir into Car Parts

After the piña coladas are drunk and the dancing is done, what do you do with 50 billion coconut husks left over? If you are extremely innovative and ecologically conscientious, you work to find a…

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