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Hydrogen supercar maker Hyperion isn’t happy about the state of hydrogen fuel infrastructure, so it’s decided to start building its own, rolling out yacht-styled mobile hydrogen stations across the United States that can generate fuel on-site.Continue … Continue reading Hyperion plans to kickstart a H2 fuel network with mobile stations
These little-known machines have to rank as some of the greatest sandpit toys in history. Walking spider excavators offer an extraordinary range of capabilities through their articulating, extending legs, stabilizers, tilting wheels, and buckets.Contin… Continue reading Video: The mesmerizing motion of walking “spider” excavators
While Praga has concerned itself mainly with go-karts, race cars and Dakar trucks in recent years, it made street cars back in 1907. Now it’s back with the Bohema, a stunning, lightweight supercar with the 700-horsepower heart of a Nissan GT-R.Continue… Continue reading Praga debuts its savagely beautiful, ultra-lightweight Bohema supercar
Nireeka is back with another eye-popping (yet impressively affordable) carbon-framed ebike. The Revenant is a high-powered, dual-suspension, ABS-equipped commuter/mountain bike designed to replace the popular Homie, with added speed, range and refineme… Continue reading Nireeka’s carbon-fiber Revenant makes 1,000 W and ABS affordable
RMIT researchers claim FiberX can add up to 20% more healthy dietary fiber to food, without any detectable change to its color, texture or taste. Best of all, the team says it can be made from starches that would otherwise be agricultural waste.Continu… Continue reading “Invisible fiber” makes food healthier with no flavor or texture change
Your roller doors might be smooth, but they’ll never be this smooth. Californian company Hover Doors uses permanent magnets to float heavy sliding doors as if they’re mag-lev monorails, for super-quiet, minimal-effort opening and closing.Continue Readi… Continue reading “Hover Doors” put frictionless mag-lev in your living room
The gap in wages between the most- and least-educated US citizens has risen sharply in the last 40-odd years, and new research out of MIT finds that more than half of this disparity can be attributed to a single factor: automation. This bodes poorly.Co… Continue reading MIT economists: Automation is driving huge increases in wage inequality
It seems Rimac has been beaten by its own mighty powertrain. The Rimac-powered Pininfarina Battista electric hypercar has just snatched the production car acceleration records from 0-60-120 mph (and 0-100-200 km/h), and it’s set a braking record too.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Automobili Pininfarina, World’s Fastest, World Records, Electric Vehicles, Hypercar
Continue reading Pininfarina Battista scoops up four production car acceleration records
This remarkable desalination device, made from 170,000 recycled plastic bottles, runs on mechanical power from waves as it floats in the ocean, and creates up to 13,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of fresh water a day – while discharging far less concentra… Continue reading Wave-powered buoys vastly reduce the ecological cost of desalination
Israeli defence tech company Elbit Systems has launched a lethal, autonomous suicide drone. The Lanius is an agile racing quad with a range of AI-powered scouting, mapping and target classification abilities, and the ability to explode when required.Co… Continue reading AI-driven combat drone can search buildings and execute suicide attacks