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It takes guts to start a company. It takes a lot more guts to start a company manufacturing cutting-edge private submarines. And as Triton’s CEO and co-founder explains, it takes even more guts to slap down your money and become the first customer.Cont… Continue reading Patrick Lahey interview part 2: Starting a new submarine company
2023 is not a good year to be running a submarine company, but we caught up with Patrick Lahey, CEO and co-founder of Florida’s Triton Submarines, for a three-part chat about a remarkable career with highlights as low as a human being can possibly go.C… Continue reading Patrick Lahey interview part 1: Birth of a submarine obsession
Rockets are expensive, so a number of kinetic launch startups are working on ways to simply yeet payloads into orbit and bring costs down. This one’s very fun – a six-mile long concrete cannon that’ll squeeze launch vehicles to Mach 30 in one second.Co… Continue reading Longshot targets $10/kg launch costs with Nazi uber-cannon on steroids
Canon has wrapped its experimental ultra-high sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor up into a world-first commercial product. The new MS-500 accepts ultra-telephoto broadcast lenses, and can shoot color video on a moonless night.Conti… Continue reading Canon’s new camera shoots color video in pitch black, from miles away
MIT researchers have discovered that when you mix cement and carbon black with water, the resulting concrete self-assembles into an energy-storing supercapacitor that can put out enough juice to power a home or fast-charge electric cars.Continue Readin… Continue reading Low-cost additive turns concrete slabs into super-fast energy storage
Having finally accepted that I’m destined for singer/songwriter territory rather than shredville, I’ve been feeling a little Gretsch-curious lately. So I decided to spend some time with the Rolls-Royce of the range and something more affordable.Continu… Continue reading Review: One cheap Gretsch guitar and one really fancy one
Nireeka has gone back to a drivetrain-friendly hub motor on its dual-suspension carbon-frame Revenant ebike – and it’s also one of the very first bikes on the market with ABS braking. We’ve been riding one for months, and it’s an impressive machine.Con… Continue reading Review: Nireeka’s ABS-equipped Revenant ebike hits the sweet spot
RMIT engineers say they’ve tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.Continue Readi… Continue reading Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density
Axiom Holographics has opened a unique family attraction in Brisbane, Australia, a kind of augmented reality zoo built around a much larger version of Euclideon’s multi-viewpoint 3D display tables and Unlimited Detail graphics engine.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading “Hologram zoo” opens in Australia
Grass has got humanity wrapped around its little finger. We carried our favorite grasses with us from the savannahs of Africa as we spread across the world, and even tens of thousands of years later, we’re so desperate to be among it that a house doesn… Continue reading Autonomous mega-mower rips through 19 football fields on a charge