The RAHT RACER: A 100 MPH Pedal Electric Hybrid Bicycle!
If you love biking to work, but face the problems like carrying certain important things, have a hard time riding in wet weather, and wish it to be faster and safer, then the Raht Racer…
Technology
World’s First Carbon Positive House Produces More Energy Than It Uses
ArchiBlox, a modular buildings specialist, has recently unveiled Australia’s first carbon-positive prefab home. A prototype of this prefab home has been installed in Melbourne’s City Square. This compact carbon-positive house with ‘edible garden walls’, a…
Advances in Photonics Leading to Greener Electronic Manufacturing & Devices
Optoelectronics, aka “optronics,” is generally the use of visible light and circuitry in electronics and is part of the field of photonics. Optronic devices source, detect, and control light and convert electricity to light and…
Google Teaming Up With Johnson & Johnson to Build a Robotic Surgery Assistance Platform
Google and Johnson & Johnson announced today that the two companies will be working together in order to develop a robotic surgery assistance platform. The idea is to ultimately create “new robotic tools and capabilities,”…
A World Without Wires Pushing Limits of Wireless Spectrum
In just the past few days, Twitter has quickly brought its new real-time video streaming software, Periscope, to the iPhone to compete with startup competitor Meerkat which recently increased its usership by 250,000 in just…
NASA’s Earth Observing Satellite Fleet Improving Global Change Research
On January 27th, 2015 IndustryTap reported on: “NASA’s Newest Earth Observing Mission: Measuring Global Soil Moisture.” NASA is on a number of important missions and is using an Earth-observing satellite fleet to accelerate the acquisition of…
The Future of Farming? Golf-Cart Sized Autonomous, Energy-Efficient AgBots
IndustryTap has speculated on the future of farming in Vertical Farming Factories, Is this the New Face of Farming?, and Freight Farms, and while each of these types of farming will have its place in…
Inventor Focus: Reducing Asphalt Industry’s Carbon Footprint
Jim Stevens has 15 patents related to asphalt (aka bitumen) chemistry and physical properties under the name Green PAHs or Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon Suppressant. Stevens is a “rheologist,” studying the flow of matter in liquid…
Ice Pigging: The Innovative, Highly Effective, and Low Risk Pipeline Cleaning Technology
Ice Pigging is a cost-effective method of cleaning pipes using an ice water slurry. The method has been widely adopted by the global water industry and is also gaining the interest of other industries, in…
Oil & Gas Industries Adjusting to Price Plunge
Much of the oil and gas that companies around the world are currently drilling for was created more than 500 million years ago, so keeping it in the ground a year or even a decade…
