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  1. World’s Largest 3D-Printed Bridge Is Built by Robots

    May
    10
    2018
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    There have been substantial advancements in 3D printing technology. With every passing year, this tech becomes more and more promising, offering substantial benefits in a variety of different fields. Recently, Dutch technology company MX3D unveiled the world’s largest 3D-printed bridge. This 12-meter-long stainless steel bridge is composed of 4,500 kilograms (9,921 lbs.) of stainless steel […]

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  2. Watch Blue Origin Seamlessly Launch and Land Its New Shepard Rocket

    May
    08
    2018
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    Elon Musk isn’t the only super rich fella with a private space company successfully launching and landing rockets. Blue Origin and its founder Jeff Bezos recently conducted its eighth test flight of its New Shepherd rocket, which included launching and landing the booster rocket, in addition to its crew capsule shortly after. This is a […]

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  4. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Is Officially Constructing Its Test Track

    Apr
    23
    2018
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    Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has been kind of M.I.A. for around a year now, ever since the California company announced it was building the world’s first full-scale, passenger-ready hyperloop. It took a while but it now appears HyperloopTT’s vision is becoming a reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies not only revealed it was currently constructing a kilometer-long test […]

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  5. Volvo Announces Its First All-Electric Commercial Truck, The FL Electric

    Apr
    17
    2018
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    Volvo has announced the brand new FL Electric, the company’s first all-electric commercial truck, which will be utilized for urban distribution and waste management. The FL Electric trucks will be outfitted with between two and six 100–300kWh lithium-ion batteries, good for a range of approximately 186 miles. The ability for the vehicles to charge in a […]

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  6. NASA’s Test Dummies Crash Planes and Other Vehicles for Safety Research

    Apr
    09
    2018
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    Every now and then, NASA gives us the pleasure of releasing footage of their test dummies crashing a whole bunch of things. Recently, NASA’s Langley Research Center published another video of their test dummies crashing airplanes and other neat space vehicles for safety research. By outfitting the dummies with sensors and other various instruments, researchers […]

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  7. New Hybrid Solar Panel Harvests Energy from Sun and Rain

    Mar
    25
    2018
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    Numerous advances in solar cells have made them very efficient. But they’re still pretty much useless in rainy weather. In a big breakthrough, a team of Chinese engineers has created a new hybrid solar panel that can generate energy even from raindrops. Now solar panels can harvest energy from the movement of raindrops on its […]

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  9. Lunativity Is a Backpack-Like Jetpack Designed For Jump Augmentation

    Mar
    18
    2018
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    A team of University of Tokyo students have developed something that’s a bit tough to even describe but perhaps hover backpack gets the job done? The non-functioning prototype, called Lunativity, is described as a backpack multi-rotor for jump augmentation. Essentially, as you can see in the video below, it helps give off the feeling you […]

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  10. Tesla Quietly Raises Prices Per Kilowatt Hour At Its Supercharger Stations

    Mar
    12
    2018
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    Tesla’s Supercharger network is expanding across the country but not without a cost. The company has quietly raised prices per kilowatt hour for using the fast-charging stations at an average increase for pay-per-use customers ranging from approximately 20 to 40 percent, according to Electrek. The price has actually doubled from 12 cents to 24 cents in Oregon […]

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  12. Quantum Tunneling: Producing Electricity From Earth’s Heat

    Feb
    27
    2018
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    A team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia has developed a device to generate electricity from the Earth by turning excess infrared radiation and waste heat through quantum tunneling. Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon that occurs when particles move through a barrier that should be impossible to move through, […]

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  14. Japan’s Street-Legal Hypercar Went 0-60 In 1.9 Seconds

    Feb
    18
    2018
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    Japan’s Aspark Owl has done the unthinkable in going 0 to 60 in under 2 seconds as a street-legal hypercar. To be specific, it was 1.921 seconds, the car’s first major accomplishment since being launched at the Frankfurt Auto Show last year. The car actually utilized a set of Hoosier racing tires in order to […]

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  15. Relive SpaceX’s Historic Falcon Heavy Launch In All Its Glory

    Feb
    13
    2018
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    Last week, SpaceX successfully launched its largest rocket, the Falcon Heavy, to much fanfare. Perhaps overshadowing the launch was Elon Musk’s idea to also release a Tesla Roadster into space, which managed exceed Mars’ orbit and continue on into the Asteroid Belt. The launch represents a historic moment for not only private space exploration but […]

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  16. Zapata Ezfly: The Aerial Segway Anyone Can Fly

    Feb
    05
    2018
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    For the past several years, inventors have been coming up with some incredible flying car designs. But the search for a viable flying car — one that doesn’t look too silly — is still on. Meanwhile, French inventor Franky Zapata has revealed a “Segway of the sky” — the Zapata Ezfly hoverboard. Zapata amazed the […]

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  17. Lightyear One: World’s First Fully Solar-Powered Car

    Jan
    30
    2018
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    Considering the many problems associated with air pollution and the fact of worldwide climate change, electric cars give us the hope of building a cleaner and greener future. However, present battery technology, which requires frequent time-consuming recharging, and the lack of well-distributed charging stations combine to make electric cars less preferable. But things are going […]

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  19. Self-Healing Glass Could Fix Shattered Phone Screens

    Jan
    16
    2018
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    Your smartphone is great until you crack the screen and have to pay half the cost of the phone to get it repaired. But in the near future, your phone may feature a screen that will heal itself when shattered. A researcher at the University of Tokyo has developed a polymer that soon will make […]

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