“Man Portable” Flying Microbots
What starts out as a new technology that can be applied as a top secret military weapon often makes its way to the mass marketplace as a scaled down, innocuous version of its former self. …
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.
Building Advanced Humanoid Robots
In 1956 the term “artificial intelligence”, or AI, was coined by American computer and cognitive scientist John McCarthy and was based on the simple idea that human thoughts and actions could be standardized, mechanized and…
Smart Guns: Biometric Grip Pattern Recognition
There is a growing interest in the use of personalized applications that use biometrics as an access key. Providing access to homes, cars, companies, safes, and even guns can now be controlled by limiting access…
Self Sufficient Sea City of the Future
Currently approximately 71% of the earth’s surface is ocean and if global warming projections are accurate, and so far they have been, more of the earth’s surface will be submerged. With the threat of rising…
WiTricity Charges Forward with Wireless Electricity
The world disposes of 40 billion batteries each year; many lay corroding in dumps, polluting ground water. And take one look under your desk and you might get an idea of how entangled the world…
Egypt’s $90 Billion South Valley Project
While civilization blossomed in a narrow strip of land in the valley and delta of the Nile River in early times, today, 83 million Egyptians are now densely packed into just 3 percent of the…
Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes Ready to Go
Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes (SBEBs) with a maximum speed of 45 mph and a range of 30 miles, meet motocross and mountain biking in the middle. Without time to load a pickup with a motocross…
Wind Lens: Fluid Dynamics Concentrated Wind Energy
Yuji Ohya, a professor of renewable energy dynamics and applied mechanics, and his team at Kyushu University have impressed a Japanese consortium enough to attract an investment of $1.5 billion in an offshore wind power…
We will all be in Driverless Cars by 2020?
The driverless car was the brainchild of the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, Sebastian Thrun. Thrun was deeply affected by the death of a childhood friend in…
Three Gorges Dam Project. China’s Biggest Project Since The Great Wall
What is the Three Gorges Dam Project? The Chinese set out to build the largest hydro power dam in the world, fully four times as large as the Hoover Dam, with a height of 607…
