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The UK’s Bellwether Industries has built and flown a half-scale prototype of its stunning Volar eVTOL, and is preparing to release footage. It’s the most brazenly futuristic design we’ve ever seen, a flying hypercar for a utopia even sci-fi doesn’t dar… Continue reading Bellwether’s gorgeous Volar eVTOL begins flight testing at half-scale
It’s ironic that even though many people are starving, a great deal of food gets discarded because it spoils before it can be eaten. A new natural-source packaging material could help, by making foods last longer – plus it’s biodegradable.Continue Read… Continue reading Corn-based biodegradable film shown to help fresh foods last longer
Earlier in the year, autonomous transport company TuSimple sent one of its trucks on a 900-mile journey from Arizona to Texas, though human drivers took the wheel for the first and last parts. Now a semi-truck has completed an 80-mile trip on public ro… Continue reading TuSimple takes humans out of the equation for fully autonomous road trip
Early last year, the ebike arm of California’s CSC Motorcycles launched a fat-tired electric roller that offered pedal-assist or throttle-only from a 750-W rear-hub motor. Now the company has announced a more powerful stablemate rocking a 1,000-W mid-d… Continue reading CSC brings on the power with 1,000-W mid-drive fat-tire ebike
NYC-based designer Joe Doucet doesn’t see why renewable energy generation shouldn’t actively make a home more beautiful, so he’s putting together a series of “kinetic walls” using rotary wind turbines to achieve some hypnotic visual effects.Continue Re… Continue reading “Wind turbine wall” turns power generation into an aesthetic feature
Kawasaki has shoehorned the supercharged 1,000cc engine from its wild H2R hyperbike into a heavy-lift autonomous cargo helicopter, and has now demonstrated a robotic system for loading and unloading it without exposing humans to those big blades.Contin… Continue reading Kawasaki’s supercharged cargo copter tests robotic ground crew
Alphabet subsidiary Waymo opened up its fully driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona, in October last year, making it the first commercial service in the world to operate without safety backup drivers at the wheel. Now the company ha… Continue reading Waymo’s new all-electric robotaxi ditches the steering wheel completely
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hasn’t even finished unfurling itself after its December 25 launch and NASA says that its mission could already be extended beyond 10 years thanks to excess fuel for its onboard thrusters.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Extra fuel may keep James Webb Space Telescope going for over a decade
We’ve seen bikes that are powered by both the arms and legs, plus we’ve seen ones that are rowed instead of (or along with) being pedaled. The Varibike Extreme, however, combines both types of exercise in a unique new fashion.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Varibike Extreme gets riders’ arms and/or legs rowing and/or pedaling
While archeologists can learn a lot from studying ancient Egyptian mummified bodies, unwrapping those bodies may damage their valuable coverings. With that problem in mind, scientists have now “digitally unwrapped” a mummy via CT scanning technology.Co… Continue reading 3D CT scanning tech used to non-destructively unwrap an Egyptian mummy