"I started to notice this utility van that was parked at the end of my street at, like, Sunday at 4 a m,
You can see the snowy runway you can see the trees you can even see a car pulling into the airport parking lot.
Anders Carp is head of traffic management at Saab the Swedish defense and security company that created this technology.
a French company that specializes in 3-D software to help engineers who design cars
Unlike simulations involving manmade objects such as cars and planes, it's very difficult to predict how the human heart will respond to stress in the real world.
In an energy conference in Paris on Tuesday, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said that a coal-togas switch ensures a sustainable energy system tomorrow.
A Science article commenting on the new superlubricated surface mentions that"nearly one-third of a vehicle's fuel energy is spent on overcoming engine
transmission, and tire friction.""Reduce the friction, reduce the amount of fuel used. When the diamond nanoparticles came in contact with the thin sheets of graphene (carbon that's only an atom thick) the graphene rolled up around the diamond nanoparticles,
as Simon Karger of Cambridge Consultants told Reuters. This initial version of the Chimaera is essentially a oncept car,
it may break it down as a seat, four legs, and a back. Since the SLAM-aware system creates a three-dimensional map of
If you so choose to wear the onesie in the car for one hour, you will have cleaned successfully the polluted air.
#Power Up Your Tesla with Footsteps An experiment charges electric cars through floor tiles that absorb footstep energypavegen,
has collaborated with Tesla in an experiment to charge cars through the power of the footstep.
or give enough energy to even move the car by an inch, foot traffic on London busy Oxford street can generate enough energy in a day to drive an electric car 953 miles. he system works,
Pavegen CEO and Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook shares, ut we need several hundred thousand footsteps to allow the vehicle to drive 20 minutes within London busiest streets. avegen electricity
-generating tiles are gaining a lot of interest in the renewable energy sector. The startup reached its funding goal of £750, 000 (around $1. 2 million) in 60 hours from 535 investors on Crowdcube.
"Developers Cambridge Consultants say Chimaera is the equivalent of a'concept car'that demonstrates their vision for the next generation of surgery.
#Lexus Hoverboard Gets Off The Ground By Michael Greshko, Inside Science-In the classic 1989 film Back to the Future 2,
Luxury car manufacturer Lexus appears to be ready for him. This week, they announced that they've built a"real, rideable"hoverboard.
Lexus has no plans to sell the prototype board, Ars Technica reports. But even so, it's really floating there!
And on the hoverboard's official website, Lexus hints at how they pulled it off:
The Lexus Hoverboard uses magnetic levitation to achieve amazing frictionless movement. Liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors and permanent magnets combine to allow Lexus to create the impossible.
Now, Lexus, your hoverboard is really cool, but"impossible"?"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Levitation is not only possible but also well understood from a physics perspective.
Lexus is taking advantage of key properties of materials called superconductors. As you might expect,
these sorts of materials are"super"at conducting electricity: When superconductors are cooled below a certain temperature,
More specifically, Lexus'use of liquid nitrogenhich has a temperature of-321 degrees Fahrenheitells us that they're using a high-temperature superconductor like yttrium barium copper oxide,
which is perfect for the kind of levitation Lexus is (Tony?)hawking. Yes,"liquid nitrogen"and"high-temperature"correctly went in the same sentence.
Lexus'superconductor probably starts working at about-292 degrees Fahrenheit, which sounds unfathomably cold. However, this temperature is actually quite warm by superconductor standards.
So how did Lexus float its high-temperature superconductors? By playing a magnetic trick on them.
Lexus has come up with a cool way to use superconductors to levitate a hoverboard and its rider, an impressive achievement,
if true--Lexus hasn't provided video of someone riding the board. But by now, you've probably noticed a theme:
And this is where Lexus is giving us a little movie magic. If the superconductors are in the hoverboard,
This is where Lexus'"permanent magnets"come in. Gourlay suspects that Lexus laid down a bunch of very strong rare-earth magnets underneath the"sidewalk,
"setting up a magnetic field powerful enough to support both board and, Lexus promises, a rider.
In fact, Gizmodo reports that the hoverboard only works on"special metallic surfaces.""This sort of setup is probably too expensive for your everyday skate park.
#Audi has made a synthetic, high-grade fuel from plant sugars Just last month, German car manufacturer Audi invented a carbon-neutral diesel fuel,
made from water, carbon dioxide and renewable energy sources, and they say their pilot plant in Dresden will pump out 160 litres of the of the stuff every day in the coming months to power their Audi a8 cars.
Now, theye announced the development of another new type of environmentally friendly, petroleum-free synthetic fuel,
'Manufactured in France by Audi partner company, Global Bioenergies, the fuel is produced by converting corn-derived glucose-a renewable source of biomass sugar-into isobutane gas.
and projects dedicated to getting'e-ethanol Audi'e-diesel'and Audi'e-benzin'on the market in the coming years,
it hard not to be impressed by a car company that appears to be invested so in making petroleum-based fuels a thing of the past
and line flexible and odd-shaped materials such as clothing or the bodies of vehicles.""There are limits to how thin a battery can be,
and could help electric cars travel further on a single charge, thanks to their light and bendy structure.
-whether that car tyres on a road or a protein flowing through a blood stream.
it could make pretty much everything from cars, trains, powerlines and computers-more efficient. here a big effort to understand friction and control it,
drawing the magnetised droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track,
and retracted like a car antenna, even while it's powering a device. That means the stretchable battery can go places where normal batteries can't go,
#BMW wants to turn street lights into electric car charging stations A new technology that allows electric car drivers to charge their vehicles directly from street lights has been showcased by the BMW Mini team at the annual Low Carbon Oxford Week event in the UK.
Called'Light and Charge',these prototype street lights combine energy-efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and BMW Chargenow recharging stations,
The plan is to make driving an electric car a whole lot more appealing by making charging stations as accessible and numerous as possible.
if we want to see more electric vehicles on the road in our cities in the future,"Peter Schwarzenbauer, a member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, told the press.
The team announced that it would be testing the Light and Charge system out in Munich, Germany next year,
Theye also got some of the charging lamps installed outside the BMW headquarters in Munich,
Any type of electric car, regardless of the model, will work with the technology. All the city needs to provide is enough room on the side of the road for temporary parking.
It no surprise that the German car company has made a commitment to getting more electric cars on the road.
According to Reuters, BMW has funded already software and applications that help electric car drivers locate nearby parking spots
and charging stations, and are reportedly in talks with US competitors Tesla motors about their new street light charging stations. n
#Material with superfast electrons displays mind-blowing magnetoresistance Researchers have found a material that could be used to build smaller and fast electronics in the future.
the project backers claim theyl be able to deliver produce rom farm to fork in under four hours and all without the usual environmental impact of truck-based food transportation across England motorways.
There could be self-healing car paint, bicycle frames and wind turbines that don crack, and car windshields that could repair themselves after an encounter with an airborne pebble.
It just a case of adding the substance to existing products, says King:""While the Bristol researchers have focused on aviation,
and pressure sensors can measure how the forces of movement are affecting those inside a vehicle, for example.
The dream is one day wel be using nothing but the boundless energy of the Sun to not only power our homes, but our cars
as parts of phones and even cars. This discovery could help improve the performance of these solar cells,
Today's batteries provide a reliable power supply for our smartphones electric cars and laptops but are unable to keep up with the growing demands placed on them.
This may also increase the range of electric cars by one and a half times the standard amount.
Metallic honeycombs are used already as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars. They are characterized by a high thermal conductivity and mechanical robustness with a low pressure loss during alternating operation modes.
and his colleagues now want the electricity supply sector to adopt safety measures used by vehicle manufacturers.
if the industry changes to soft housings that absorb energy in the same way as modern car bodies he says.
The idea of using automotive industry technology in transformer housings has led to a pilot project in which SINTEF's materials and electricity experts are collaborating.
Car bodywork is designed with soft zones that absorb energy from collisions by crumpling. Our idea is to design transformer tanks in such a way that they expand
criminals have stolen a motor vehicle, which transported infected material. The fear is that this might cause a wider spread of the virus
The advantage of this technology is its ability to process any type of plastic such as styrofoam polystyrene PET and ABS;
and mechanics who keep cars trucks and bikes running with little or no access to spare parts.
and crutch tips or ferrules from old car tyres she said. While you have to admire the skill involved it's very time-consuming
The infrastructure isn't in place now for hydrogen to replace gasoline as a fuel for planes trains and automobiles.
The leader of the research effort Tadashi Suzuki notes that while it is currently unclear how these symptoms correlate with reduced protein degradation caused by insoluble aggregates
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
and production of future vehicles and military gear to improve safety. Array"Whether you're serving our country in uniform, playing in a big game,
New epigenomic block for advanced cancer Array"If you think of late-stage cancer as a runaway car,
most of our drugs take a shot at a tire here and there, but sometimes they miss
In this so-called"flow battery,"the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid and pumped through various compartments of the battery.
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu, who is affiliated also with the Department of physics
or as a hyper-efficient seat warmer in a car. Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far,
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
or by using very close distance of less than 2 cm between the bacterial suspension and LED light source.
In patients with mild or moderate potassium elevation, known as hyperkalemia, patiromer for oral suspension decreased serum potassium levels within 48 hours.
Considering that nearly one-third of every fuel tank is spent overcoming friction in automobiles, a material that can achieve superlubricity would greatly benefit industry and consumers alike.
The research, led by scientists at the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan in collaboration with dozens of other scientists from around the globe,
a scientist at the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan who led the experiment. The study notes that a wide range of drugs would likely be more effective
The doctoral student initially made a suspension of silver nanowires in ethanol using wet-chemistry techniques. She then transferred this suspension with a pipette onto a substrate, in this case a silicon solar cell.
As the solvent is evaporated the silver nanowires organise themselves into a loose mesh that remains transparent,
which is a function of the wire lengths and the concentration of silver nanowires in the suspension.
and tires their organs one by one until their little bodies cannot go on any more, "they wrote.
or cars being assembled in a factory daunting task if the thousands of images on one hard drive haven been labeled.)
Some people are conscientiously conserving water in their homes in little waysy not washing their cars
kicking off the robotic vehicle's clandestine fourth mission as well as the first flight of a tiny solar-sailing spacecraft.
But Air force officials have said that mission number four known as Orbital Test vehicle-4 (OTV-4) will concentrate less on the X-37b itself
"With the demonstrated success of the first three missions, we're able to shift our focus from initial checkouts of the vehicle to testing of experimental payloads."
saying the X-37b is simply testing out technologies for reusable vehicles and future spacecraft.
OTV-3 lifted off in December 2012, sending the vehicle that flew OTV-1 to space for 675 days record for a reusable space vehicle.
or the space plane that flew OTV-2."The program selects the orbital test vehicle for each activity based upon the experiment objectives,
The technology might also help keep communication lines open to other hypersonic vehicles, such as military planes and ballistic missiles.
When a vehicle travels at hypersonic speeds that is, five or more times the speed of sound an envelope of hot,
cutting off radio communications with anything outside the vehicle. Photos: US Military Tests Hypersonic Craft As NASA's Apollo 13 crisis revealed in 1970,
"When a re-entry vehicle is unable to be connected, the only thing you can do is pray for it,
For instance, scientists have suggested changing the shape of hypersonic vehicles, because sharp-nosed vehicles have thinner plasma sheaths than blunt-nosed ones.
But sometimes, blunt-nosed bodies are preferable because they can withstand heat better and slow down more quickly.
It does not rely on a particular shape of vehicle in order to work, nor does it consume additional energy
#DM Blade Supercar has 3d printed Chassis: The Arduino of Cars Last year we saw Local Motorsstrati, a compact car with a 3d printed body, seats, windshield and support structures.
Divergent Microfactories (DM) Blade prototype supercar looks much better and is apparently much more powerful than the Strati,
but DM pride and joy is what inside the car. The DM Blade has a 700hp four-cylinder engine
and weighs just 1400lb.,supposedly allowing it to go from 0 to 60mph in just 2. 2s.
For comparison, the $2. 25m Bugatti Veyron completes the same acceleration test in 2. 46s.
But DM wants us to focus on another number. 3d Print says the Blade has/50 the factory capital costs of other manufactured cars.
More importantly, they reduce the manufacturing costs, skill requirements and environmental impacts of car manufacturing. The idea,
is to be the Arduino of cars n affordable and customizable platform for car manufacturers to use as the basis for their vehicles.
Czinger and other DM officials talk at length about their vision in this Oeilly interview. Here a stylized assembly of the Blade chassis,
But just like the Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other single-board computers, DM will measure its success by how many vehicles will be built
and how many small automakers will be born thanks to its technology. via 3d Print i
#Fove VR Headset Locks Onto Your Gaze Fove is the first virtual reality headset to feature eye-tracking--meaning, among other things,
and a different ad is shown to the people waiting at the bus stopsays Ferdinand Saint-Julien CEO of Trilite Technologies.
#Chemists one step closer to new generation of electric car battery Lithium sulphur (Li-S) batteries can theoretically power an electric car three times further than current lithium-ion batteries for the same weight at much
#Vehicle body made from cotton hemp and wood Carbon and glass fibers reinforce synthetics so that they can be used for vehicle body construction.
But in this regard there is an abundance of potential found in natural fibers obtained from hemp cotton or wood.
If you combined bio-based textile and carbon fibers you can obtain extremely light yet very sturdy components. ightweightis an important buzzword in automotive engineering and just as important in the aerospace sector too.
Carmakers are increasingly counting on fiber reinforced synthetics. These fibers which are embedded into the synthetic matrix give the material its additional durability.
The researchers will also present fiber form-pressed components for the automotive industry there. Fibers inside these parts are embedded into a thermoplastic matrix#plastic that is
are ships like car and truck carriers, big ferries, container ships and LNG CARRIERS. Terje Lade forecasts that the freighter will set sail as soon as 2019.
Like a half-made car with extra horns and wheels tacked to one end, a truncated protein with an apparently random sequence of alanines and threonines looks strange,
even more than in cars and other gadgets, there is a direct penalty for adding more batterieshe drone becomes heavier.
This combination is a real winner considering that the battery is designed mostly for use in hybrid electric vehicles and energy storage for renewable energy sources.
military vehicle manufacturers can improve their product designs to enable Marines to fit better in seats
Gary Van Berkel of ORNL is a co-author s
#Scientists successfully test immunogen a component for potential HIV vaccine Team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, INTERNATIONAL AIDS Vaccine Initiative and The Rockefeller University have shown successfully that an experimental vaccine candidate
In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
and two in the back provide lift and thrust, with controls and a seat in the middle for a pilot.
combines the lifting power of a helicopter with the looks and feel of a motorcycle.
who was involved not in the research. ombining synthetic genetic devices with phages as delivery vehicles allows a systematic approach to reprogram pathogenic bacteria for death,
explains principal investigator Dr. Olaf van Erve. Realization of spin-based Si NW devices requires efficient electrical spin injection and detection,
The NRL research team includes Dr. Olaf van Erve, Dr. Adam Friedman, Dr. Connie Li,
#New nanogenerators collect friction energy from rolling tires Team of engineers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a collaborator from China have developed a new nanogenerator that is able to generate power from friction created by rolling
tires of the car. As with a big part of today automotive technological innovations, it is aimed at efficiency.
In the future such technology could help harvest otherwise wasted energy to squeeze just that extra bit of efficiency out of cars and other vehicles.
The nanogenerator harvests the wasted tire friction energy by relying on the triboelectric effect. It is the electric charge that results from the contact or rubbing together of two dissimilar objects.
The generator harnesses energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle wheels.
which is a major goal in today automotive industry. Professor Xudong Wang, one of the authors of the study, noted that he friction between the tire
and the ground consumes about 10%of a vehicle fueland, since that energy is wasted simply,
f we can convert that energy, it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency Improving fuel efficiency would benefit everyone it would help automotive industry meet new strict regulations for emissions,
make traveling just that little bit cheaper and would improve energy efficiency which would benefit environmental causes as well.
The technology is depending on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire. When it comes into contact with the ground,
The segment should not cause any disadvantages to the handling and performance of the car.
team used a toy car with LED LIGHTS. Engineers attached an electrode to the tires of the toy car
and watched the LED LIGHTS as the car was rolling forward and they flashed on and off as electrodes came with contact with the surface.
The friction was strong enough for the electrodes to harvest enough energy to power the lights,
Engineers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car
It means that different vehicles would waste different amounts of energy and different percentage of it could be saved using this method.
As cars are supposed to be greener and greener, everyone involved will have to look for new innovative ways to improve efficiency.
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
#Research Team Improves Lithium air batteries For Electric car Industry A research team from Carnegie mellon University and the University of California,
Lithium air batteries are especially promising for the electric car industry, as they allow electric car battery packs to be smaller
and other competitors in the electric vehicle industry, Mccloskey said. he whole idea of selectively making things soluble
said Cindy Van Dover, director of the Duke university Marine Laboratory. On its maiden voyage, the Syprid sampler was carried by the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry to a depth of more than 2,
150 meters where pressures exceed a bone-crushing 3150 psi and drove a precise sampling pattern for more than eight hours just above a natural methane seep.
but all plankton in the deep ocean, said Van Dover. e can now pick and choose where we sample,
and the yang of regulating GPCR function, said H. Eric Xu, from Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and cars (see ilicon Chips That See Are Going to Make Your Smartphone Brilliant S
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
The phones will be sold from trucks that function as mobile stores, as well as over the Internet. Just as third party apps were crucial to the popularity of smartphones,
Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with Deep Learning Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior,
such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an obstacle. Today systems are usually unable to tell the difference between a trash can
This week at the International Consumer electronics Show in Las vegas, Nvidia, a leading marking of computer graphics chips, unveiled a vehicle computer called the Drive PX that could help cars interpret
Nvidia already supplies chips to many car makers but engineers at those companies usually have to write software to collect
and other graphics for dashboard displays. t pretty cool to bring this level of powerful computation into cars,
so that car manufacturers can fix bugs or add new functionality. This is something few car companies, aside from Tesla, do currently.
So far Audi has emerged as an early buyer; at CES, the company showed off a luxury concept car called the Audi Prologue that includes the Drive PX.
A year ago, the company announced at CES that it had developed a compact computer for processing sensor information (see udi Shows Off a Compact Brain for Self-driving cars.
That, too, included Nvidia chips. The introduction of Nvidia product is a landmark moment for deep learning,
At CES, Nvidia showed that its software can detect objects such as cars, people, bicycles and signs, even when they are hidden partly.
At a press event Sunday, Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO, said the devices will provide ore computing horsepower inside a car than anything you have today. e
may not be the seat of language comprehension, as has been scientific dogma for the past 140 years.
even off the back of a truck; it doesn require electricity or a sophisticated lab or an experienced technician, added Robert Garry, a virologist at Tulane University in New orleans,
Ayres added that having four test cells means that the company is able to work on several projects in parallel. lready we are placed to commence work work on the high-efficiency auxiliary power unit for use on buses and heavy-duty vehicles next week,
Meanwhile, Dearman zero-emission transport refrigeration system is extended currently in on-vehicle testing at MIRA, and will be commencing commercial on-road trials later this year.
and work on customising the transport refrigeration system for different vehicle types. Dearman is one of a number of small technology firms working with the Proving Factory,
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