Engineering

World’s First Underwater Car Cruises at 75 MPH on Land and 1.9 MPH Underwater

For those who think that a submersible car from a James Bond movie is just a wild idea, Swiss company Rinspeed has launched the submersible car “sQuba” that can be driven on land and underwater.…

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US Navy Awards $80.5 Million More Toward the Production of Joint Standoff Weapons

Defense technology company Raytheon has been awarded an additional $80.5 million to a previously awarded contract from the US Navy for the purchase of 200 full rate production Lot 10 AGM-154C-1 Joint Standoff Weapons. Joint…

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Epic “404” for Italy’s Messina Straits Bridge and TAV High Speed Rail To France

The top word in English in 2013, “404”, is the universal code for “failure” on the Internet. “Fail” was the number two term in a year where so many things are seemingly wrong … in…

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Magical, Medieval 900-Year-Old Crypt Discovered in a Monastery

Old Dongola, located in modern-day Sudan, was the capital of a lost medieval kingdom called Makuria 900 years ago and recently had one of its monasteries excavated. The findings are nothing more than extraordinary with…

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Is Biometric Technology Setting Us Free or Enslaving Us Forever?

The common refrain is that technology isn’t inherently evil, it is the use of it by people with evil intent that makes it so. The “Tile“, for example, can be used so that my son…

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Fog Harvester Turns Thin Air into Clear Water

The air in our atmosphere contains water vapor and is around us all the time. We just can’t see it. When this water vapor condenses into tiny liquid water droplets in the air, it forms…

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GE’s Next-Gen Jet Engines Use 3D Printed Parts

Earlier this year, IndustryTap looked at “Flower Power” and how GE’s Peebles Orb jet engine testing facility in Ohio was being used to test biofuels in jet engines. Now GE has started testing next-generation jet…

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Curiosity Rover Makes a Discovery That Surprises Earthlings

NASA’s Curiosity rover has given scientists the strongest evidence of an ancient, almost freshwater lake on Mars that could have sustained life billions of years ago. This discovery is considered to be great as lakes…

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High End “Sky Engineering” Pushes Boundaries of UAV and Single Seat Helicopters

From the International Robotics Exhibition (IRE) in Tokyo, November 2013 Hiroshima, Japan-based RC helicopter maker Hirobo debuted a prototype of its new HX-1 unmanned electric rescue helicopter, which will deliver food and medical supplies to…

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$50 Billion Sochi Olympic Games Just Weeks Away

The Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia will soon be upon us. The games begin by the Black Sea in the Imeretin Valley February 7-23, 2014, and will be followed by the Para Olympic Games from March…

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