Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.

Botta Bing Botta Boom: New Battery Innovation To Double Range Of Tesla Model S

Sometimes Innovations come fast and furious, sometimes they don’t; battery innovation is red hot these days. The phrase “botta bing botta boom” according to the urban dictionary, is an expression meaning that things people are…

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World’s Most Polluted Air, New Delhi Passes Beijing

We might expect India to have “an air of superiority” as it passes China in a major statistical category. Unfortunately, India’s New Delhi now has the world’s most polluted air, overtaking Beijing. This is according to…

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Heaven On Earth: Wireless Energy Transfer Now Replacing Electric Cables

IndustryTap has reported on WiTricity and Nicola Tesla and the idea of using “resonant energy transfer” to power objects across a room or even across continents. WiTricity is able to charge any device without using cables…

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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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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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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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Government 2.0 Could Be Worth $3 Trillion Worldwide

Governments everywhere, especially in the United States, are decrying the sorry state of their infrastructures: roads, bridges, municipal facilities, etc.. The irony is that before these issues can be effectively addressed, new systems that harness…

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NASA Military Helicopter Crash Tests Improve Survivability and Durability

One of the most spectacular, harrowing and deadly human events is the crash of a helicopter. One moment, it’s flying smoothly through the air and the next pirouetting toward the ground, sometimes sailing back and…

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Architect Sou Fujimoto “Innovator of the Year”

Since the Pritzker Architecture Prize was established in 1979, it has become the architecture world’s Nobel Prize. The award has been won seven times by Japanese architects. In 2008, 38-year-old Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto gained…

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