Watch a Robot ‘Sculpt’ in 3D Using Only Light!
Artist Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi has demonstrated a new system using a 3D printer and LED light to generate a light painting from a 3D model. Ekaggrat took only two days to complete the entire project.…
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Netherlands to Try Recycled Plastic Roads; More Durable, Climate Friendly Than Asphalt
Plastics do not biodegrade. Everything ever made from plastic still exists, creating a worldwide environmental monster. Dutch construction company VolkerWessels is paving the way to a more sustainable world by building roads entirely out of recycled plastic.…
Doomsday Scenario for Volkswagen, Ford & Toyota in the Age of Smart Cars
The Financial Times created a video last week explaining the current disruption occurring in the automobile industry and likely implications. In the coming years, rather than decades, winners and losers will begin to emerge from…
A Short History of Bridges Leading Up to the Millau Viaduct
Making bridges, from the earliest days, involved a few ideas: span and forces, including compression and tension. The span is the length to be traversed. Forces include compression on the top of the bridge that pushes…
Shrimp Exoskeletons May Aid Development of Advanced Composites
Unexplained Mysteries of Aquatic Habitats, Creatures Deep-sea marine science and biology researchers recently reported finding a species of shrimp, Pandalus Platyceros, living more than 6,000 feet (2000 meters) below the surface of the ocean, surviving…
East London’s Olympic Park Tower Being Reworked Into a Massive, Looping Slide
Growing up, I used to dream of gigantic slides being placed sporadically throughout office building and large towers just because, why not? It always seemed like a cool idea or having a water slide from…
In-Pipe Hydropower: Electric Generators in Water Pipeline Infrastructure
When water is flowing through pipelines, there is energy that can be harvested. If those pipelines are from large municipal pipelines or industrial manufacturers pumping millions of gallons of water a day, the amount of…
Programmable Wireless Ear Buds are Volume Knob on the World, Personal Sound Studio
From the beginning, humans have had to tolerate unwanted sounds. Covering your ears was about all you could do, until now. Hearable Wearable Technology Soon people everywhere will be able to manage sounds in their…
World’s First Bionic Eye Implant Restores Central Vision of British Pensioner
Try closing one eye and keeping it closed for 10 years. Losing vision in one eye is severely debilitating for anyone, particularly for those who are active, engaged, and involved in the world. Now, an 80-year-old British…
Hacking 21st Century Democracy: New Tools for the State, Society & Citizenship
The Emergence of an Internet Civil Framework According to Pia Mancini of Palo Alto, California’s DemocracyOS Foundation, in a recent TED Talk, “we are 21st century citizens doing our best to interact with 19th century designed institutions…
