Is What’s in This Box the Secret to Your Safety?
Meet MIRTLE. MIRTLE may not look like much but inside this box is a powerful security device that could change the way you’re kept safe in public. Set to hit the market this spring, the…
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Hard Rockin’ Robots Strike a Chord on the Music Scene
Fans of Jimi Hendrix, Slash, B.B. King, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, eat your hearts out. While your heros rocked a few generations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, guitarists of…
New Goodyear Zeppelins Mark New Era in “Lighter Than Air” Transport
The name Goodyear is synonymous with Akron, Ohio, where the company is headquartered, and aerial broadcast coverage of sporting events in the United States. Goodyear blimps first “hit the air” in 1925 and since then…
Small Satellite Constellations Help Solve Geospatial and Atmospheric Problems
The era of huge multi-million dollar satellites is waning, giving way to an increase in the mass production of low weight satellites. Gone are the days of one-time stints. New satellites will more frequently operate…
Part Hovercraft, Part Boat and This Bad Boy Goes 75 MPH Over Snow
The Amphibious Trimaran with Aerostatic Discharge (ATASD) is a new vehicle from Canadian company Interconn Development that is multi-functional and flat out awesome. The ATASD works like a hovercraft but is also part fan boat,…
Apple’s CarPlay Revs Up the Auto Industry’s Race to Turn Your Car into a Phone Accessory
Earlier this week, IndustryTap wrote about Apple’s new CarPlay system that was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. CarPlay allows iPhone users to plug their devices into their cars and have their iPhone screens show…
Air Disaster Scorecard: 20% Technical, 80% Human Causes
“Murphy’s Law” states: “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” And so it is in the world of airplane disasters. From a distance, most air disasters seem simple: a midair crash, a plane running…
Concrete-Crushing Robot Demolishes Buildings Then Recycles the Debris
Demolishing is no doubt a messy business and is always accompanied by loud noise, lots of dust, wasted water, wasted energy, giant piles of rubble that often head straight for the landfill and heavy labor…
Planes Bring Thousands of Liquid Crystal Discs to Life at the World’s Busiest Airport
airFIELD is suspended in the international terminal of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and measures 90-feet long by 30-feet wide. The incredible sculpture is synced to the real-time flight data of the airport and utilizes the…
Chainsaw-Wielding Robot Carves Furniture Out of Wood Logs
High-tech ultra precise robotics for minimal waste could be the future of the furniture industry. But a chainsaw-wielding robot arm might be an unusual way to demonstrate the idea. The idea took off at 2013…
