Automating Wild Turkey Bourbon Production
Wild Turkey bourbon has been in production for more than a century. The original batch, created in 1855, is a mix of corn, rye and malt barley. Nearly 100 years later, in 1940, Thomas McCarthy,…
Technology
Better Seeing Cameras That Mimic the Human Eye
Swiss scientists are developing an innovative new camera that mimics the retina of the human eye called the DVS128 Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), developed by iniLabs, a division of Institute of Neuroinfomatics based in Zurich.…
Is The Boeing 787 A Pandora’s Box of Trouble?
Boeing’s sophisticated 787 Dreamliner jet is proving to be the problem child for Boeing as the problems keep returning one after the other. Boeing prefers to call them just glitches or teething problems. The 787,…
World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber Simulates Deep Space Environment
Aerospace engineers put equipment planned for space through as many tests as possible to ensure durability in harsh space environments. In a recent talk by an engineer working with the Mars Rover project, the fact…
Biggest U.S. Rocket Launches Intelligence Gathering Satellite
The United States launched its biggest rocket from the central California coast on Wednesday 28th Sep’13. The 235 foot tall (around 23 stories) rocket carrying a top-secret spy satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force…
Looking For Fun? The World’s Longest Water Slide, Largest Chute & Steepest Roller Coaster
From elementary school playground slides to race cars and F-16’s it is clear humans enjoy the thrill of speed. When speed can be combined with other sensations like cool water on a hot day or…
New Solar Powered Drones Will Remain Airborne For Years
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) popularly known as drone is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. The flight of a drone is controlled either autonomously by computers on-board or the remote control. Mostly these…
World’s Largest Wind Farm Proposes Expansion To 57 Square Miles
History Of Mismanagement At Sellafield Has Residents Weary A few months back IndustryTap wrote about the most hazardous industrial site in Western Europe: the Sellafield nuclear power plant, home to the world’s first commercial nuclear…
Can Sleep Pods in the Workplace Help?
People are working harder and more stressful jobs than ever before, especially with technology, social media and business innovations moving at a staggering pace. It can be difficult to keep up and can become quite…
The Electric Fold-able Car Called The Armadillo-T
Driving can be stressful at times and arriving at your destination to find out that there is no parking space only adds to a driver’s woes. Parking is the biggest motoring headache today, motorists often…
