Ebolabot Developed to Combat Ebola in Hospitals
The Ebola virus has killed thousands of people in West Africa and currently has the U.S. on high alert. The Ebola virus can survive for up to six days on solid surfaces. Though it can…
Engineering
Lockheed Martin Announces Affordable, Clean Fusion Energy Just 10 Years Away
According to a Lockheed Martin announcement October 15, 2014, the National Academy of Engineering may soon be able to “tick off” one of the 14 “Grand Challenges for Engineering” for the century ahead. If true,…
Recycled Smartphones Worth Their Weight in Gold
German company Aurubis, a global leader in recycling copper and precious metals, is making a killing on yesterday’s fashionable technology, which is now considered junk. And Aurubis is the only German company currently recycling smartphones…
Scientists Stop Light Like a Red Light Stops Traffic
Light travels at a speed of about 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second). The sunlight that we see here on Earth actually left the Sun 8 minutes before. Nothing in this universe travels…
Stanford Engineers Create the Foldscope, a $1 Paper Microscope
Stanford engineers recently invented the Foldscope, which essentially creates a scaffold capable of holding a lens and an LED in alignment. A microscope can be placed in between, and the lens and focus changes as…
Pack Your 3D-Printed Portable Wind Turbine in a Bag and Take It Wherever You Go
We’ve seen those so-called portable diesel and petrol electricity generators. But these portable generators are bulky and heavy to move and not very environmentally friendly. Now, we have a technology that can really be called…
State-of-the-Art Physics Software Elevates Paper Airplane Design to a New Level
For most people, paper airplanes are a delight of being a child and we may revisit the art when we are in college studying aerodynamics or Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithropter, a model plane made of…
DeepFlight Is Taking Preorders For This Crazy Personal Submarine For $1.5 Million…
Submersible designer Graham Hawkes has unveiled his latest personal submarine design called the Deepflight Dragon. Hawke’s new design has the capability to simply float on the water’s surface unless the thrusters are engaged to submerge…
Step Right Up! Next Week’s Industrial Automation Electronics Conference to Focus on Issues and Opportunities in $75 Billion Market
The knock against “automation”, from the Greek word meaning “self-dedicated”, may be that it’s a bit complicated. But companies provide automation equipment and services to make the world a simpler place, ultimately making life and…
World’s Largest Ship Ever Built and First Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Platform to Begin Drilling in 2017
Shell Oil will soon deploy its, and the world’s, first “Floating Liquefied Natural Gas” (FLNG) platform, built at a cost of $52 billion. The ship took 1.6 million hours front end engineering and design (FEED).…
