Collaborate Disseminate
I find it amazing just how many people haven’t yet had their first taste of virtual reality – but I understand why. It’s expensive, the headsets are bulky and weird, it looks pretty antisocial, and it’s the kind of thing you need to be a bit of a nerd … Continue reading Review: Why people are going nuts over the Oculus Quest
If it seems like there’s a new battery technology in the news every week or so lately, that’s because a ton of research money that’s been spent over the past five or ten years is starting to bear fruit. A huge part of our future is electric; that much … Continue reading New high-density lithium battery prototype loves heat, won’t explode
As threatened earlier this year, Aston Martin has unveiled one of its most strikingly weird cars to date in the V12 Speedster. Bereft of roof and windshield, it’s a two-seat, open-top, 700-hp leisure machine inspired by the F/A-18 fighter jet.Continue … Continue reading Aston Martin unveils ludicrous, roof-and-windshield-free V12 Speedster
McLaren has given its barnstorming 720S a steroid injection, a liposuction treatment and a set of buttock implants with the announcement of the new 765 LT, or longtail. Longer, stronger and stripped back, it’s built for serious, hard driving on the rac… Continue reading McLaren’s 765LT Longtail: A new supercar flagship from Woking
We last caught up with Equipmake back in 2018, when this British company’s spoked magnet electric motors were capable of generating a monster 9 kilowatts of power per kilogram, using cheap materials and standard manufacturing processes. By comparison, … Continue reading Equipmake announces the world’s most power-dense electric motor
Lithium is expensive, environmentally questionable in large volumes, and tends to catch on fire from time to time. It’s the best solution we’ve currently got for EV and device battery storage, but other alternatives are starting to surface, and one tha… Continue reading Self-healing potassium batteries: A cheap, long-life rival to lithium
The Geneva International Motor Show has been cancelled at the eleventh hour, as the Swiss government decided on Friday to ban all events with more than 1,000 attendees in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. As a result, instead of an avalanche… Continue reading GFG Style reveals its latest dune-scorching electric hyper-SUV
The final fly-off in Boeing’s US$2 million-dollar GoFly personal flight contest was postponed yesterday due to high winds, but one Japanese team still went home with a substantial check to put towards further research and development.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading GoFly is a NoFly, but Japan’s Tetra 3 wins $100k Disruptor award
Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science have used rust as a catalyst in light-assisted hydrogen production from organic waste, finding it produces 25 times more hydrogen than previous titanium dioxide catalysts.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, S… Continue reading Rust and light combine for a 25x boost in hydrogen production
A truly unique little car is coming to the streets of Europe mid-year in the Citroen Ami. Cheap as chips and legal for license-free driving, this super-quirky little electric pod goes 70 km (43 miles) on a charge at up to 45 km/h (28 mph).Continue Read… Continue reading Citroen’s super-cheap Ami electric city pod needs no license