Are Smart Cars the Intelligent Choice for Urban Transit?
Drive around any major city in Europe or North America and there’s a good chance you will spot a couple of smart cars on the road. The electric vehicles have been much more common over…
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About Jonathan Keane
Irish journalist writing on business, tech and engineering.
IKEA Launches a Line of Solar Panels
IKEA is known for furnishing everything under your roof and now the store wants to put its products on your roof too. The company has begun selling solar panels in branches of stores in the…
All-Electric Formula E Circuit Races into the Future
The FIA Formula E is a new breed of motor sport, featuring solely electric-powered cars. The FIA describes the championship as a “framework” for exploring and researching the long-term use of electric power and sustainable…
Armband Taps into Muscle Power to Control Electronics
Myo is the world’s first gesture-controlled armband, an innovative new piece of technology that harnesses electrical activity in your muscles to control computers, phones and other electronics via Bluetooth. Developed by Thalmic Labs in Waterloo,…
“Super Skinny” Skyscraper Could Climb Its Way into the New York Skyline
Architects in New York have released plans for a “super skinny” skyscraper that could be erected in midtown NYC. SHoP architects, who were behind the Gotham Gateway in New York, the Atlanta Falcons Stadium and…
World’s Largest Container Ship Debuts in Copenhagen
Triple E, the world’s largest ship, is 400 meters long, 59 meters wide, 73 meters high and has a capacity of 18,000 twenty-foot containers. Although it’s about a quarter of a mile long and is…
Bike with Carbon Fiber Frame Breaks World Speed Record
Students at TU Delft and VU University in Amsterdam have set a new world record with their high-speed bike at 133.79 km per hour (83.133 mph). Sebastiaan Bowier manned the bicycle down a 200-meter length…
Battery Life Stretches to Meet Consumer Demands
The laptop and smartphone market is saturated and shows no signs of slowing down, especially with the latter and Apple’s recent unveiling of the iPhone 5S and 5C. People are on the go or telecommuting…
NASA Goes Sungazing with Latest Satellite
In late June, NASA launched a new satellite, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), into space to investigate how the sun energizes its atmosphere. The IRIS has one main objective: find new information on the…
New Bin Picking Robot Combines 3D and 2D Vision to Sort Parts
FANUC America has manufactured a new intuitive robotic bin picking device called the six-axis FANUC M-20iA Robot. The robot uses FANUC’s new iRVision 3D Area Sensor as a means to sort through the contents of…
