Father of Drag Racing Hopes to Hit 200 MPH in This Electric Dragster
“Big Daddy” Don Garlits, who many refer to as the father of drag racing, was the first man to ever break 200 mph in a dragster. But that was about 40 years ago. Now, Garlits…
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Istanbul Grand Airport Set to Become the World’s Busiest Airport Terminal
Set to become the world’s busiest airport terminal, Instanbul Grand Airport will be located on the Black Sea coast and is scheduled for six-runway development. Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects for Instanbul…
Mercedes-Benz Tweets Photo of Its Heavy Duty Actros Carrying a 250-Ton Mining Hauler
Mining haulers are insanely large machines, ten times the size of your average dump truck, and generally weigh 180 to 300 tons. Mercedes-Benz recently tweeted out a photo of its Mercedes-Benz Actros transporting a mining…
Shock-Absorbing Wheels Help Wheelchair Users Ride Down the Stairs Comfortably
Softwheel, a company out of Tel Aviv, Israel, has improved the wheel on a standard wheelchair to where it can now ride down stairs and easily take on bumps of any kind. Softwheel’s “Selective Suspension…
Target CEO Resigns… Massive Data Breach The Underlying Factor?
Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has announced that he will step down from his position, this development coming five months after a massive data breach that compromised the credit card information for approximately 40 million customers.…
This Photographer Took On 9 G’s In an F-16 With The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds!
Photographer Blair Bunting recently became one of the few people outside of the military to ride in an F-16 with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds… As you would probably guess, the footage he captured is amazing!…
High School Students Conquer Ketchup Water with Their 3D Printed Ketchup Cup
Two high school seniors from Kansas City embarked on a year-long project to fix an issue we can all relate to … eliminating the watery red ooze that comes out before the actual ketchup we…
Powdered Alcohol Stirs Up Controversy
What happens when you combine alcohol with powder? You get Palcohol. Essentially, Palcohol is made like creating flavored water with sugar packets but Palcohol creates hard liquor after mixing it with water. It’s being called…
It Takes Merely 10 Minutes to Fully Charge This New 75-Foot Electric Ferry
The Movitz is a 75-foot ferry based out of Stockholm, Sweden, capable of carrying 100 passengers, but has never really been newsworthy until now. That’s because the Movitz’s 335-horsepower diesel engine is being replaced by two 125…
Wi-Fi Enabled Telescope Uses GPS and Your Smartphone to Map Out the Galaxy for You
If your astronomy skills leave you wondering if you’re looking at the Big Dipper or the Little Dipper, Celestron’s NexStar Evolution will help you become a master astronomer within minutes. NexStar Evoltion is a new…
