This Innovative Bendable Bike Can’t Be Stolen!
Bike theft is a major problem all over the world. This problem has only increased with more bikes on the roads as more and more riders try to go green. Bike owners need to spend a…
Energy
Solar Powered Smart Palms in Dubai Offer Free Wi-Fi and Fast Charging
Sitting under a palm tree in Dubai will not only provide you with shade but will also provide free Wi-Fi and keep your devices charged as well! Dubai’s glitzy landscape is about to get a new…
Progress Eagle: Zero Carbon Emission, Triple Decker Super Jumbo Jet
Cool designs these days are like Whack-a-Mole: once you’ve seen something really interesting, another more interesting design pops up. Perhaps this is a testament to the human imagination and availability of great graphics software. But…
The Challenges of Building Closed Ecological Systems
Laboratory Ecospheres vs. Manmade Biospheres The earth exists in a closed ecological system, a biosphere, an oasis in the hostile environment of space, which provides life support for humans and other biological creatures from algae to…
Photographer Marc Simon Frei Used a Mini Tesla Coil to Capture Electrical Discharges
The prospect of photographing a mini Tesla coil doesn’t sound too intriguing until you actually see the photographs. Photographer Marc Simon Frei used a 1920s-era electrotherapy device to generate electrical discharges, which resemble mini lightning…
Wave Power: Harnessing the World’s Largest Untapped Renewable Energy Resource
IndustryTap has covered Sea Snakes, Tidal Power and a plan to harness 100 billion tons of water per day in the Bay of Fundy. Now Aquamarine Power of Scotland, which has based its wave power designs on the oyster,…
Fly From London to New York in Less Than an Hour on a Hypersonic Plane
The fastest flight between New York and London was on 7 February 1996 when a British Airways Concorde crossed the Atlantic from New York to London in a record-breaking time of two hours, 52 minutes. But…
BMW Proposes Street Light Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles to Eliminate Range Anxiety
As electric vehicles continue to try and revolutionize the automotive industry, it has become quite clear that the range anxiety issue and lack of charging stations both need to be addressed. BMW has an interesting…
Eye in the Sky to Keep Watch on the Amazon Rainforest Trees
Illegal logging, particularly in Peruvian regions of the Amazon rainforest, destroys tens of thousands of acres of trees every year. About 80% of the area’s logging exports are harvested illegally. The deforestation in remote parts of…
Hubble, Hubble, Toil and Bubble
The Hubble space telescope was placed in orbital operation on April 24, 1990. It was named after Edwin Powell Hubble (1889 – 1953). Hubble (the guy) was a notable astronomer, and, among other things, known…
