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Variable Speed, Variable Pitch Wind Turbines Depend on Control Technology

When most people think of wind power, they think of fixed pitch wind turbines. In the ever-innovating world of wind power, variable speed variable pitch (VSVP) wind turbines have a number of advantages, including a…

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Happy Halloween! Enjoy Levitating Pumpkins and Exploding Thermite Pumpkins

The Royal Institution posted a neat video on Halloween last year showing off levitating pumpkins with help from a superconductor and a magnetic track. This year, they are back with another awesome Halloween video featuring…

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DARPA Visions 2045: Interstellar Travel, Virtual Immortality & More

Most people have heard of Ray Kurzweil’s prediction that humans will achieve immortality by 2045, a mere 30 years from now. But what does DARPA believe the future will look like in 2045? On October…

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Brain Surgeons Using Non-Invasive Focused Ultrasound Beams

The brain just might be the most complicated and powerful “machine” in the universe. But when the brain develops problems, brain surgeons and their patients run up against huge risks. Brain surgeons regularly deal with…

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Murphy’s Law: CIA Director’s Personal Emails Hacked by Teenager, Published on Wikileaks

You can’t make this stuff up! The only solace, perhaps, is to acknowledge even the high and mighty are vulnerable to the laws of nature, including Murphy’s Law. It simply doesn’t matter that they have…

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Ballistic Bulletproof Glass Gets Absolutely Annihilated By SSI Shredder

Watch as SSI’s PRI-MAX® PR780H primary reducer “processes” ballistic bulletproof glass. Uh, yeah… More like completely obliterates something that for its intended use is supposed to be somewhat indestructible. The shredder sure looks hungry, pretty…

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Flying Car & Sky Commuting: Cutting Commute Times Dramatically

Imagine cutting your daily commuting time from 1 hour to 15 minutes with an autonomous or semi-autonomous flying car! New technologies such as extremely accurate GPS are making science fiction ideas a practical possibility in the…

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MIT Data Science Machines Showing Humanlike Intuition

That humans will be woefully inadequate against smart data science machines, in at least some areas of inquiry and analysis, is already a foregone conclusion. But the way in which machines are outperforming humans changes…

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A Comprehensive Look at the Features of Underwater Actuators

An actuator is a device that can deliver and operate solely on its own without any direct linkage. Actuators serve various roles, such as raising and lowering, holding hatch covers, boom control while raising and…

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Revealed: The World’s First Braille Tablet

Millions of blind and visually impaired people around the world have, to an extent, been left out of the digital revolution. Though using smartphones and tablets is possible since most operating systems provide audio support,…

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Engineering

Variable Speed, Variable Pitch Wind Turbines Depend on Control Technology

Happy Halloween! Enjoy Levitating Pumpkins and Exploding Thermite Pumpkins

DARPA Visions 2045: Interstellar Travel, Virtual Immortality & More

Brain Surgeons Using Non-Invasive Focused Ultrasound Beams

Murphy’s Law: CIA Director’s Personal Emails Hacked by Teenager, Published on Wikileaks

Ballistic Bulletproof Glass Gets Absolutely Annihilated By SSI Shredder

Flying Car & Sky Commuting: Cutting Commute Times Dramatically

MIT Data Science Machines Showing Humanlike Intuition

A Comprehensive Look at the Features of Underwater Actuators

Revealed: The World’s First Braille Tablet

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