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.

$100,000 Tesla Model S Sedan Named the Safest Car Ever

Recently, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded Tesla Motors Model-S a 5-star safety rating in every category tested. Like a smart pupil, the Model-S was given “extra credit” and a 5.4 rating…

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Book a Flight on the “Vomit Comet”

Got about $5,000 to spare? Parabolic flights create “Zero G” weightlessness and they’re open to the public. Zero gravity flights have been a part of NASA’s astronaut training program for decades. They earned the name…

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Bomb-Proof Concrete, Wallpaper Designed to Save Lives

Gunpowder is the first known chemical explosive but it didn’t always have a dark side. It’s reported to have originated in 7th century China to make fireworks used during celebrations and festivals. In fact, gunpowder…

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Robotic Underground Parking Garage Gives Bike Racks the Boot

IndustryTap has written about concept eCycles and their impressive ergonomics, break rotors made from lighter, stronger and more durable materials and how “Creative Engineering Underlies Fastest Bicycles In the World“, featuring recumbent and upright vehicles…

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Kinetic Desk Takes a Stand Against “Sitting Disease”

Dangers of A Sedentary Life According to Harvard Business Review and Marc Hamilton of the University of Missouri, “sitting is the smoking of our generation” because “when you sit down for extended periods of time,…

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Geotechnical Centrifuge Mimics Massive Earthquakes

The image above of the San Andres fault, an 1,800 mile (1,300 km) gash in the earth’s surface, hints at the awesome forces involved when two of the earth’s plates, in this case the Pacific…

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Rice Undergraduate Engineers Invent Robotic Arm For Disabled Teen

Three undergraduate bioengineering students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have built a robotic arm for Dee Faught. The 17 year old suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic malady that makes his bones brittle. Faught…

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Sky-High “Vertical Forest” Takes Green Living to New Heights

Trade nature’s beauty for city life among the skyscrapers or live miles away from civilization for the trees? A new green architecture project is combining the best of both worlds with a “vertical forest.” Reforestation…

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Who’s Going to Make the World Better?

“Innovation Economics – The Race for Global Advantage” by Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell does something rarely seen in Washington D.C. these days: it provides a plausible diagnosis for the ills of the United States…

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The Dinosaur Eats Dinosaur World of Global Aerospace & Defense

Global A&D Industry Expanding If the top ten Aerospace & Defense companies worldwide are the “Tyrannosaurus Rexes” with yearly revenues in the $35 to $70 billion range, smaller A&D companies, roughly half their size with…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

$100,000 Tesla Model S Sedan Named the Safest Car Ever

Book a Flight on the “Vomit Comet”

Bomb-Proof Concrete, Wallpaper Designed to Save Lives

Robotic Underground Parking Garage Gives Bike Racks the Boot

Kinetic Desk Takes a Stand Against “Sitting Disease”

Geotechnical Centrifuge Mimics Massive Earthquakes

Rice Undergraduate Engineers Invent Robotic Arm For Disabled Teen

Sky-High “Vertical Forest” Takes Green Living to New Heights

Who’s Going to Make the World Better?

The Dinosaur Eats Dinosaur World of Global Aerospace & Defense

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