Type and Swipe to Recharge Your Smartphone
You know how we laugh at the giant bread boxes old cell phones resemble? Our grandchildren will find it equally laughable when we tell them we used to plug in our smartphones to charge up…
Author Archives: Nidhi Goyal
About Nidhi Goyal
Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
It’s Not the Rolls-Royce of Yachts. It Is a Rolls-Royce Yacht.
You don’t have to be a car enthusiast or even a boat lover to appreciate this yacht. But the best you can do is dream about it because it’s only a concept at this point.…
Show of Hands – Who Wants the 740-HP, $500K Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive Supercar?
The engineering masterminds at AMG, the performance division of Mercedes-Benz, has introduced the Mercedes SLS AMG ED (Electric Drive), the first truly super sports car. With this world’s fastest electrically-powered series production vehicle, Mercedes-AMG is…
Want to Read Someone’s Mind? There’s an App, Well, You Know the Rest.
Magicians have claimed they can read your mind for decades. Now, you don’t need any special tricks up your sleeve to know what other people are thinking. Emotient, a startup based out of San Diego,…
Are Vertical High-Speed Trains the Future of Public Transportation?
To save space on land and increase transportation capacity, British designers Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa have designed a skyscraper rail hub with hyper-speed trains that travel vertically. The concept behind the design The basic goal…
Play Music Like Never Before with This Glove
Grammy Award-winning musician Imogen Heap, who works largely in electronic sounds, has created electronic gloves that allow musicians to interact with electronic equipment via hand gestures. Mi.Mu gloves can sense the position of a musician’s…
New Museum Will Look Like a Giant Salad Bowl
Giant Mirrored “Salad Bowl” is a competition-winning design of art depot for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (MBVB) in Rotterdam. Dutch design firm MVRDV won the collection building competition after proposing this giant mirrored public art…
This Skyscraper Shrinks Right Before Your Eyes
Building demolition is typically executed through wrecking balls, explosives and jackhammers. All these processes are very noisy, disruptive and messy, producing a lot of dust and not a lot of building material can be salvaged.…
Skysat-1 Satellite, about the Size of a Mini-Fridge, Captures First HD Video of Earth
Satellites today are capable of taking imagery better than a meter in resolution, but they weigh thousands of kilograms. San Francisco firm Skybox Imaging has released the first footage from a revolutionary satellite. SkySat-1 is…
Portable Hydrogen Fuel Cell Unit to Clean Up Port of Honolulu
Marine ports are major hubs of economic activity and major sources of pollution. Huge ships running on the dirtiest fuel available, diesel trucks visits, mile-long diesel locomotives hauling cargo and other polluting equipment at marine…
