Collaborate Disseminate
The YangWang U9 is remarkably affordable for a 1,287-horsepower electric hypercar at around US$236,000. It also rocks a ‘DiSus’ active suspension system powerful enough to launch the car off the ground, or let it rotate on the spot in a “tank turn.”Con… Continue reading Watch: YangWang hypercar jumps in the air and rotates on the spot
Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this ‘jumboization’ surgery is becoming very common. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.Continue Re… Continue reading Watch: Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
Fender’s original Mustang Micro was an impressive little headphone amplifier for silent practice and recording – but the brand-new Plus version is a remarkable upgrade that puts a ludicrous range of tone options at your fingertips.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Review: Fender’s $129 dongle-amp puts half a Tonemaster Pro in your pocket
You may have seen this video doing the rounds; it peers through the lens of a microscope at a smartphone chip and starts zooming in, giving you a visceral sense of just how insanely tiny today’s transistors have become.Continue ReadingCategory: Compute… Continue reading Viral video zooms in on the mindblowing complexity of an iPhone chip
Ireland’s Safehaven Marine builds search and rescue craft, patrol boats and pilot boats designed to operate in “all weather” – up to and including Force 10 storms with waves up to 23 ft (7 m) high. The firm backs this up with some spectacular testing.C… Continue reading Watch: Twin-hull hydrofoiling catamaran smashes big-wave storm tests
The humble capo has graced the gig bags of performing musicians for decades, clamping down to change the overall key of a guitar in a single, swift motion. Now, a new take on the capo opens up whole new musical worlds of alternate tunings.Continue Read… Continue reading ‘Guitar capo 2.0’ gives you five different note options per string
Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.Continue Re… Continue reading Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world’s first human procedure
“We can feed black soldier flies straight, dirty trash,” says a team that’s working to turn insects into landfill-clearing biomanufacturing machines that turn regular, dangerous or contaminated garbage into a range of high-value products.Continue Readi… Continue reading Insects as biofactories: Turning dangerous waste into valuable products
Conventional helicopters have a built-in speed limit, imposed by the physical limitations of their top-rotor lift systems. This fascinating Airbus project has found a way to break through that speed limit, and it’s already done it in flight testing.Con… Continue reading High-speed helicopter breaks through single top rotor speed record
At the time of writing, there were an estimated 8,123,518,311 living humans on Earth – roughly the most there has ever been. But as fertility and birth rates continue to freefall, the numerical peak of humanity is quickly approaching.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading UN Predicts peak human population, as fertility rates plummet