Author Archives: Marshall Smith

About Marshall Smith

Technology, engineering, and design enthusiast.

First Images of the Intimidating Truck Replacing the US Military’s Humvee

The US military’s Humvee has become an iconic vehicle over the years, and even though it has widespread admiration, the vehicle itself is old. As a result, the military awarded the $6.7 billion contract to…

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PSEG’s $600M Power Plant Will Supply Electricity to 500,000 New Jersey Homes

A new $600 million power plant from PSEG, set to be constructed in Sewaren, will reportedly supply electricity to approximately 500,000 New Jersey homes in addition to creating hundreds of jobs. PSEG spokesman Michael Jennings…

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Video Shows Every Single US Navy Combat Jet in History

The video below from Sploid’s YouTube Channel features every US Navy combat jet ever, in what makes for a fascinating four and half minutes. From older planes like the Skynight, Phantom, Panther, and Banshee to…

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Purdue University Offering Hyperloop Design Course to Engineering Students

It’s no secret that Elon Musk wants to eventually develop a Hyperloop, and while it is still far from a reality, universities across the country are offering Hyperloop design courses. Purdue University is the latest…

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Pepsi Max’s Friend Finder is a GPRS Powered Blimp That Will Seek Out Your Buddies

We’ve all been there, right? You go to a music festival or concert with a group of your friends, and one of you inevitably gets separated from the rest of the group. Cell phone signals…

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Uber Announces New Self-Driving Car Project at University of Arizona

Uber is partnering with the University of Arizona on a new self-driving car project that will focus mostly on optics systems, specifically mapping technology. An email sent to the university’s employees detailed the autonomous car…

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Watch Sony’s Drone Prototype Take to the Skies for the First Time

Sony’s new drone project, Aerosense, is officially underway thanks to a new video that shows the first footage of the drone prototype in action. The drone, which looks like a tiny airplane, was developed with…

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NASA Releases Montage of Crashes From Its Landing and Impact Research Facility

There are a select few people in the world working at NASA’s Landing and Impact Research Facility who have arguably one of the best jobs on the planet. They get to crash things on purpose…

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Watch a Tanker Maneuver Its Way Into the Very Narrow Port of Galway

Watching the Galway Fisher tanker squeeze its way into the super narrow Port of Galway is fascinating. Especially when you take into account the fact that water isn’t stationary, making maneuvers more and more difficult. Coming…

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NASA’s Visualization of ‘Ocean Garbage Patches’ With 35 Years Worth of Data

Over the past 35 years, the ocean has collected a whole lot of garbage, enough to actually form entire ocean garbage patches. In order to help us visualize the copious amounts of garbage, NASA partnered…

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