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Taiwan’s Graft EV has announced a tough-looking electric dirt squirter that weighs little more than an ebike but makes 20 times as much power. The EO.12 looks like a Sur-Ron on steroids, and should be an absolute barrel of monkeys on a tight trail.Cont… Continue reading Graft EO.12 electric dirtbike: A featherweight weapon for the trails
It’s an odd little political movement, seasteading. An idea as old as the hills, it’s been bubbling along in recent times with the Seasteading Institute as its main hub. But main hubs are hardly the idea; this is a movement for folk that feel the natio… Continue reading Seabrick aims to give “seasteaders” a floating foundation to build on
The puffy silver Moncler bits gleam like the reflective foil on a space capsule, while in stark contrast, the exposed parts still identifiable as being Mercedes in origin have been treated to a “rough patina” that looks like it’s been left unpainted in… Continue reading Project Mondo G: The G-Wagen hits the catwalk
The eVTOL space as a whole is definitely starting to look distinctly grown-up in 2023, transitioning from the crazy rush of concepts and ideas a few years ago into a broadly careful, measured and sensible sort of sector that’s going through the exhaust… Continue reading Long-range, box-wing eVTOL prototype begins flight testing down under
The discovery was founded on the useful, but confusing idea of quasiparticles, which act as if they exist, but really don’t. There are only three types of particle in a solid: protons, neutrons and electrons. When packed together in a solid, these indi… Continue reading Researchers predict, then prove strange solid-state heat switches
Effectively, these bots are built in segments, and each segment has its own multicopter propulsion unit, capable of vectoring thrust in any direction thanks to multi-axis gimbal systems. The segments are joined together, but capable of articulating in … Continue reading Multi-segment shapeshifter drones: The precursors to flying squid-bots
Pulling greenhouse gases out of water is an odd-sounding idea, but the oceans are the planet’s number one carbon sink, and direct air carbon capture has pretty serious problems: it costs a lot, and uses a lot of energy. According to IEA figures from 20… Continue reading MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air
The system sounds relatively simple, but requires some fairly fundamental changes to the pixel array behind the screen. Where most screens use red, green and blue LEDs, set at different intensities, to create their full color palette, GM’s design would… Continue reading GM patents self-cleaning touchscreens that erase fingerprints overnight
Two companies – France’s CX Air Dynamics and Sweden’s Mo’Cycle – are now selling airbag jeans for motorcycle riders. They sit flat as you ride, but in a crash, they balloon up like Sam Smith at the Brit Awards, protecting your knees, hips and thighs.Co… Continue reading Motorcycle airbag pants are here, and boy do they look funny
Space launch costs have dropped like a stone over the last decade or two, but it still ain’t cheap to lift mass into orbit – SpaceX’s best prices are still well over US$1,000 per kilogram (2.2 lb). So aerospace remains an industry where lightweighting … Continue reading NASA’s “evolved structures” radically reduce weight – and waiting