Collaborate Disseminate
There are more bicycles out there than ever before, and many of them are electrified, so people are getting around quicker. Bosch has responded by releasing ebike-specific versions of its ABS system, and others have followed suit, but Korea’s Outbraker… Continue reading Outbraker claims its bolt-on “ABS” brake mods make bikes safer
Japanese eVTOL company SkyDrive has announced it’s going into partnership with Suzuki, as it works toward the development and full-scale production of a “compact, two-seating electric-powered flying car,” which it hopes to debut at the Osaka World Expo… Continue reading Suzuki joins SkyDrive’s push to build an eVTOL flying car by 2025
A floor peppered with Lego pieces is a midnight minefield for barefoot parents, but a YouTuber going by “Unnecessary Inventions” has now designed a 3D-printed Shop Vac attachment that allows you to vacuum up lego and have it auto-sorted by size.Continu… Continue reading Lego-filtering vacuum attachment sucks and sorts a floor full of pain
Ola is building the world’s largest motorcycle “Futurefactory,” and planning a staggeringly massive push into India’s electric scooter market. It has now made a “multi-million dollar investment” in an ultra-fast charging battery company from Israel.Con… Continue reading Ola eyes 5-minute electric scooter charging with StoreDot battery tech
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) are planning to live-stream a rocket launch in Virginia tonight, running hypersonic tests on the Bolt II flight system at speeds up to Mach 6.Continue Readi… Continue reading Pivotal Bolt II hypersonic flight test will be live-streamed tonight
A new “Pedestrian Shield” system will auto-adjust speed restrictions on rental scooters depending on whether they’re on the road or the footpath, using cameras and AI-powered analysis to assess the environment, and using GPS to enforce no-ride zones.Co… Continue reading AI-powered system will auto-enforce speed restrictions on scooters
In the last few years, the electric VTOL world has been inundated with an avalanche of cash, talent and ideas – it’s been a long time since there was this much fresh energy in aviation. Companies like Joby, Lilium, Archer, Vertical Aerospace, eHang and… Continue reading Early milestones in electric VTOL history
Back in 2017, Red Bull filmed a pair of BASE-jumping wingsuit pilots jumping off a mountain top and into a passing plane, but it’s about to top itself with something far crazier. The next great Red Bull stunt will be a live-streamed event, as two pilot… Continue reading Two crazy pilots are about to attempt to switch planes in mid-air
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has plenty of experience mass-producing industrial robots, and now we get to see some of its early progress into service robots, multi-purpose humanoids, and, for some reason, a very silly-looking ride-on robot ibex.Continue R… Continue reading Kawasaki presents the pinnacles of its robot developments at iREX 2022
Jet airliners are typically “retired” after around 30 years of service, and while there are many ways to re-use bits of them – such as chopping off their cabin sections to be fitted out as training simulators – many are ignominiously fated to rust away… Continue reading Cute office pods give new life to decommissioned airliner fuselages