There are 5000 public use airports in the USA. On average people are a 30 minute drive fro one of those airports. The Terrafugia transition will be to takeoff from one of those airports. The flying car will cost $279,000. It uses premium gasoline and not jet fuel. They have been flying the vehicles but …
After gaining steam on the collaboration platform JumpStartFund, a group of engineers set out to create a crowd-friendly company to make the Hyperloop happen. Dirk Ahlborn and his co-founders have connections with SpaceX, they were able to talk over the idea with the company’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, and get the green light to feature it …
Infrared nanoantenna could in theory achieve 70% efficiency with solar energy conversion. There are several approaches to try to achieve that goal. Diode Approach has had fundamental problems but adding a second insulator layer could help The power conversion efficiency of broadband antennas, log-periodic, square-spiral, and archimedian-spiral antennas, coupled to Metal-Insulator-Metal and Esaki rectifying diodes …
Aubrey de Grey indicates that the divide and conquer repair of aging damage approach has become mainstream. Fightaging as usual highlights this momentous milestone in antiaging. The Hallmarks of Aging is essentially a more mild-mannered and conservative restatement of the SENS approach to aging – written after more than ten years of advocacy and publication …
Apple will introduce two new iPhone models at a special media event on Sept. 10. There should a high-end iPhone 5S and a budget iPhone which should be the iPhone 5C. Apple’s iPhone 5S is expected to launch on September 20th in the U.S. and other initial markets and will have a new A7 processor, …
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was meant to improve the U.S. air arsenal but has made it more vulnerable instead. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — a do-it-all strike jet being designed by Lockheed Martin to evade enemy radars, bomb ground targets and shoot down rival fighters — is as troubled as ever. Compromised design is second rate. Overweight …
Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a high performance iron-based superconducting wire that opens new pathways for some of the most essential and energy-intensive technologies in the world. These custom-grown materials carry tremendous current under exceptionally high magnetic fields—an order of magnitude higher than those found in wind turbines, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, and even …
Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering feat, a 1.5 billion pixel Reality Deck. The Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality four-walled surround-view theater, is the largest resolution immersive display ever built driven by a graphic supercomputer. Its purpose and primary design principle is to enable scientists, engineers and physicians to tackle …
CNet – 2013 will have smartphones with higher resolution 5 inch screens as the dominant phone Japan Display revealed yesterday that the mega joint venture — consisting of Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi’s manufacturing prowess — started mass production of a 5-inch 1,080-pixel LCD screenbound for future smartphones.As for specifics, the upcoming IPS LCD display by JDI contains a …
CNET – Columbia researcher Nina Tandon believes that the era of engineered tissues — think ultimately of a replacement kidney grown in the lab — is just beginning. Medical science, boosted by manufacturing and information technology, is on the cusp of being able to grow human tissue. So believes Nina Tandon, a senior fellow at …