durability and imperviousness to water means they are used everywhere, from packaging to cars and furniture and toys.
On the path to commercialisation, her team found an even more effective approach was to use the polymers in another type of waste used car tyres.
Most of the existing uses for old tyres involve making low value secondary products such as asphalt, aggregate for cement, artificial reefs, footwear, plastic and rubber composites,
In Australia alone, this technology has resulted so far in over two million used car tyres being converted from waste into a valuable feedstock for steel production.
while at the same time reducing the environmental problems of waste tyre disposal s
#Deep-sea fish found to be warm-blooded Calling someone a cold fish may not hold any more after scientists today revealed a deep-sea fish that is warm-blooded.
Wegner likens the system to a car radiator and says the exchange stops the heat from nearing the gill surface where it would be cooled by the water flow through the gills.
Dr Ni said the technology eventually could be used for military applications like making large objects like vehicles or aircraft or even individual soldiers"invisible".
could lead to developments in areas as diverse as high-powered"tractor beams";"or manipulating drug delivery in the human body.
"Tractor beams, delivering cancer drugs and other new potentials Professor Drinkwater said the importance of developing a single-sided device was expanded that it the potential of the technology
and paved the way for the development of'tractor beams'that could pull objects toward the sound source."
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle. ut if they become easier and cheaper to make,
The demand for hydrogen as a clean fuel for vehicles and other applications is expected to increase.
and was published in ACS Catalysis http://pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/cs502000j The Critical Materials Institute is a Department of energy Innovation Hub led by the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory.
"Tests conducted on older high mileage vehicles have yielded tremendous results, one 200,000 mile engine still runs like new,"states N1 Technologies CEO Steve Lovern.
and Display Solution AG, showcased a pioneering 3d encapsulated touch sensor for the automotive industry. The partnership is delivering the first ever,
The integration of touch applications to dashboards and other paneling in cars has long been desired by automotive designers
New possibilities for design Specifically designed for automobile center consoles and dashboards, household machines, wearable devices, industrial user interfaces, commercial applications and consumer devices,
A natural partnership Schuster Group has a long history in manufacturing customized paneling for the automotive industry.
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
#Self-Assembled DNA NANOSTRUCTURES Could Be used as Smart Drug-Delivery Vehicles Researchers from Aalto University have published an article in the recent Trends in Biotechnology journal.
Lithium-ion batteries have been used commonly in laptop and tablet computers, electric vehicles and renewable energy systems for more than two decades.
Flame retardants are added to foams found in mattresses, sofas, car upholstery and many other consumer products.
which uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between electronic devices. An advantage of this system is that magnetic fields are able to pass freely through biological tissues,
Based on current projections the ticket price will be about three times more expensive on average than current business-class subsonic tickets One estimate puts the cost at#5, 000 (£3, 700) per seat for a Brussels to Sydney one-way trip.
In Europe, Steelant team tested their 300-seat design albeit a 1: 120 scale model, at speeds of Mach 8 within a wind tunnel.
which makes the vehicle again smaller, Steelant says. The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
according to research by Airbus and the Japan Aircraft Development Corporation. he estimated ticket price for Tokyo to Los angeles is the same as that of an existing first-class seat,
and investors because they were concerned deeply about the impact of the European parliament's network neutrality proposals on start-up innovation in Europe,"Stanford professor Barbara van Schewick,
and used a nanoscale vehicle made of DNA to deliver a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool into cells in both cell culture and an animal model.
This work focused on demonstrating the potential of a new vehicle for directly introducing the CRISPR-Cas9 complex-the entire gene-editing tool-into a cell."
comparted to about six hours for nanoscale vehicles without the coating. his combination of features means that the drugs can
In 1983, Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell at the University of Ghent in Belgium introduced the world to modern plant genetic engineering.
and cost Americans $10 billion more than burglary, car theft, and property theft combined in 2012.
He started selling CDS from his car, and eventually scored a deal with the influential music label Def Jam Records.
or car wash those were the businesses back then. Things you can get in easily to get out of that life.
and headphones with aftermarket car parts, dog and cat products, and RC cars a
#The Apple Pay effect is real n-store mobile payments volume will top $800 billion in 2019 Mobile payments the use of phones to complete transactions in stores instead of cash
and physical card swipes are going to grow much more quickly than many observers Believe in no small part,
yet weigh about as much as a compact car. From an altitude of 18,000 to 27 000 metres, the drones are designed to beam down internet connectivity to regions of the world where wireless internet access is unavailable,
For example, last summer, it filed a patent to bicycle-style seats on planes that would make it possible to cram more passengers in the same amount of space.
The Danish exercise bikes with no seats as none is needed in gravity-free conditions were launched in 2001
#Porsche, Audi unveil all-electric models to challenge Tesla Tesla will soon face competition in the luxury all-electric car segment after Porsche
and Audi unveiled new all-electric models at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Audi unveiled the concept car for its"e-tron quattro"vehicle, a sporty SUV, with a range of more than 500 km.
Porsche showed the prototype of its first battery-powered sports car, titled"Mission E."Similar in appearance to its iconic 911,
it has an 800-volt electric powertrain with 600 horsepower that can accelerate to 100 km per hour in 3. 5 seconds."
"When we designed this car, we knew it had to be a real Porsche, "chief executive Matthias Müller said in an interview on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show."
"It had to feel like a 911.""Neither Porsche or Audi will have these models to market until 2018.
Tesla's first luxury electric crossover, the Model X, starts delivery on Sept. 29, giving it a head start.
But with such high-profile names, with established reputations as luxury automakers, entering the all-electric market, they could pose competition for Tesla down the road.
Both Porsche and Audi are owned by Volkswagen, the world's biggest automaker, and the move to all-electric could boost the credibility of the concept and thus help Tesla."
"It will certainly sharpen the public focus on electric vehicles and raise overall awareness. Consumers are also set to gain from growing offerings of electric cars, especially in the performance segment,
"Commerzbank analyst Sascha Gommel told Reuters. Tesla's Elon musk put his electric-car patents into the public domain last year in the hope of boosting development of competing electric car technology.
One of the most closely watched design elements will be how far the cars can travel without having to be recharged.
Tesla is at work developing a network of charging stations across North america and Europe. That could help open doors for Volkswagen as many consumers are waiting for suitable infrastructure to be developed.
It's not known how the new cars will be priced Tesla's Model X starts around $77, 000 US 0
#Robot revolution sweeps China's factory floors In China's factories, the robots are rising.
China's auto industry was the trailblazer for automation, but other industries are rapidly adopting the technology as robots become smaller, cheaper and easier to use.
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
though his weight was supported partially by an overhead suspension harness and a walker he grasped to keep his body upright,
#Poland's Ideabank Turned Four BMW i3 EVS Into Mobile ATMS ATMS were considered once a revolution in convenience,
That's why Poland's Ideabank turned four BMW i3 electric cars into mobile ATMS, dispensing cash to customers via a mobile app, reports Carscoops.
From the perspective of the power grid, electric vehicles (EVS) can in many respects be considered a variation of behind-the-meter storage they just happen to be mobile.
The Nissan leaf for example, holds 24 kilowatt-hours, while an average house will use 30 kilowatt-hours per day,
so a car battery could provide backup power during an outage. But electric cars create challenges for grid operators.
Because they draw so much current during charging, there is the potential to overload circuits that serve neighborhoods.
Close on the horizon is so-called vehicle to grid (V2g) technology. Standards will finally make it possible to use the EV battery in two-way operation with utilities.
500 watt model fits into the trunk of a car. o if you ran out of electricity somewhere,
or aesthetic reasons (such as maintaining the colors for cars, clothes etc
#Africa Could Quadruple Renewable energy Capacity By 2030 These are the primary conclusions from a new report published by the International Renewable energy Agency (IRENA), Africa 2030,
The documents reveals that the car array of sensors will notice a cyclist among other objects and vehicles on the road.
It describes how the car would use a combination of a camera Lidar and radar to collect information about objects that surround the car.
It does this by examining the height of objects it may think are compared cyclists with the average height of cyclists it has identified previously.
The car measures the distance between the top of the cyclist head and the pavement at various ranges,
and the size and shape of the cyclist hands, arms and head. he computing device may be configured to determine other subsets relating to other aspects of the cyclist, such as one or more subsets indicative of a type of vehicle of the cyclist,
Google's prototype two-seater'bubble'cars have buttons to begin and end the drive, but no other controls.
and negotiate its way around pedestrians and other vehicles. Under the vision unveiled by Google,
The cars are expected also to be electric, capable of going 100 miles (160 km) before needing to be recharging.
The front of the vehicle has a soft foam-like material where a traditional bumper would be and a more flexible windscreen
and the ability to self-drive will depend on specifically designed Google road maps tested on the company's current fleet of vehicles.
But ultimately the vehicles will be faster and will be able to use Google's extended maps service,
using GPS technology to locate the vehicle's exact position on an electronic map. A combination of radar, lasers and cameras sitting on top of the roof give the car a 360-degree'view,
'with sensors linked to computer software able to'see 'and identify people, cars, road signs and markings and traffic lights. n some embodiments, the type of vehicle of the cyclist may include other means of transportation such as a scooter or moped.
The Washington post notes that the patent remains vague, leaving open different possibilities for exactly how Google self-driving cars could work.
Google says it begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers in a bid to get self-driving cars on the road by 2020.
In March, a separate patent revealed that Google's self driving car could have airbags both inside and out.
It shows an external airbag system in action that inflates if the car hits a pedestrian or other object.
The airbags would be made a new'memory foam'material that doesn't simply cause the pedestrian or cyclists to bounce off.
Chris Urmson says the cars would still be test vehicles, and Google would collect data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians.
Google is working on sensors to detect road signs and other vehicles, and software that analyzes all the data.
The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in California.
Urmson wouldn't give a date for putting driverless cars on roads en masse saying that the system has to be safe enough to work properly.
He told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that Google doesn't know yet how it will make money on the cars.
Urmson wants to reach the point where his test team no longer has to pilot the cars.'
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public.
self-driving cars must have a steering wheel and pedals. Several other states have passed laws formally allowing autonomous cars on public roads without that restriction.
trains and cars are replaced by craft that can whisk us from London to Sydney in a just a few hours by flying most of the way in the outer limits of our atmosphere. he most important thing is that Emdrive is green,
and ultralight cars Researchers have demonstrated a new type of metal so light it can float on water.
Significant efforts in recent years have focused on developing lightweight polymer matrix composites to replace heavier metal-based components in automobiles and marine vessels.
The new composite has potential applications in boat flooring, automobile parts, and buoyancy modules as well as vehicle armour. h
#When a bike and car MERGE: Futuristic C-1 can reach 100mph and will NEVER fall over thanks to its self-balancing technology By Jack Millner For Mailonline Published:
But now a car as thin as a motorcycle could help you cut through traffic while keeping you safe and warm.
What's more, it uses gyro stabilisation to stay balanced, so unlike a motorcycle, it will never fall over.
Lit Motors, creator of the C-1 self-balancing car, recently showed off their futuristic vehicle at the 2015 Invention Awards,
'Our vehicle is the future of transportation, 'said founder of Lit Motors, Danny Kim, in a statement.'
and efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car, creating the ultimate urban vehicle.'
our gyro system exerts 1300 ft-lbs of torque to control the tilt and lean of the vehicle.'
This effect is achieved by using spinning gyros embedded in the vehicle beneath the seat. A spinning disk-also known as a gyro-can keep its balance where a stationary disk would fall flat, just like a bicycle wheel.
It also allows the driver to squeeze into parking spaces normally reserved for motorcycles. Kim hopes the product will hit the market within two years and cost from $24, 000 (£15, 000) 0
which helps people remember events such as where they parked their car in a multi-storey car park or where they left a set of keys.
would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5, 500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at takeoff,
#Audi, Mercedes and BMW hit back at Google and Appple: Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
Audi and Mercedes, will pay around 2. 5 billion euros ($2. 8 billion) to buy Nokia's maps business,
beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars.
Germany's three premium carmakers will hold equal stakes in the business, known as HERE, clubbing together to keep the assets away from Internet rivals such as Uber of Silicon valley and China's Baidu and Tencent.
which Nokia will compensate the carmakers, the Finnish company said on Monday. Scroll down for video The transaction is expected to close in early 2016.
The purchase allows automakers to offer new premium features, like autonomous driving, in luxury cars, shaking up the pecking order between car makers,
'With the joint acquisition of HERE, we want to secure the independence of this central service for all vehicle manufacturers,
which invented the motor car in 1886. But it is unclear how other HERE customers,
including rival carmakers, may respond to Germany's carmakers owning map technology, which many in the automotive, Internet and logistics industries see as key to their own strategies.'
'There is a risk that the other automakers will be pushed further into the arms of Google, 'said Richard Windsor an independent financial analyst who tracks major tech players.
Intelligent mapping systems like HERE's are the basis on which self-driving cars linked to wireless networks can perform functions such as recalculating a route to the nearest electric charging station or around a traffic jam or accident.
At a later stage, the carmakers will invite private equity firm General Atlantic to join the consortium as an investor and potential mediator
HERE is the leading supplier of digital maps for most of the world's top carmakers,
which has begun to retool its business to focus on carmakers rather than consumers. Tomtom recently teamed up with Bosch, one of the world's top auto suppliers,
to create an alternative platform to HERE for carmakers. HERE was created via the $8. 1 billion acquisition of Navteq in 2008 by Nokia
but later switched to focus on carmakers. Nokia is now shedding its maps business as it integrates its purchase of telecom network equipment maker Alcatel Lucent.
said it expected to book a gain on the sale to the carmakers, including cumulative foreign exchange translation differences, of around 1 billion euros.
In bidding for HERE, the German carmakers appeared to use their status as key customers to fend off other bidders,
Law firm Hogan Lovells advised the overall automaker consortium and Daimler specifically. Self-driving and connected car services could become a $50 billion market analysts at Exane BNP PARIBAS have estimated.
'The automotive industry is facing a big disruption through connectivity and connected driving technologies. These features will become an important source of differentiation.'
It shows a self driving Lexus stopping at a junction in Mountain view near the firm's HQ-then being rear ended by the car behind.'
a car slammed into the back of us at 17 mph and it hadn't braked at all,
The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain. The simulation shows Google's car being rear ended at 17mph at a junction in Mountain view after stopping at a red traffic lightin a blog post
he says the problem has been common.''Our self-driving cars are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road.'
One of our Lexus vehicles was driving autonomously towards an intersection in Mountain view, CA.'The light was green,
so three cars, including ours, braked and came to a stop so as not to get stuck in the middle of the intersection.'
'The car's data confirmed it was hit at 17mph.''As you can see from the video above,
and the vehicle behind us had plenty of stopping distance but it never decelerated.''This certainly seems like the driver was distracted
'Thankfully, everyone in both vehicles was okay, except for a bit of minor whiplash, and a few scrapes on our bumper.'
'The other vehicle wasn't so lucky; its entire front bumper fell off.''New data released by Google reveals other drivers have hit the firm's cars 14 times since the start of our project in 2009,
and it says'not once has the self-driving car been the cause of the collision.''''The clear theme is human error
It comes as the latest version of Google's self-driving car-a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal
or steering wheel-has made its debut on the roads around Mountain view. This prototype is the first vehicle built from scratch for the purpose of self-driving,
Google says. The technology giant's mission is to have driverless cars available to consumers in the next five years.'
'These prototype vehicles are designed from the ground up to be fully self-driving, 'Google said.''They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals,
but during this phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
and brake pedal that allow them to take over driving if needed.''The prototypes'speed is capped at a neighborhood-friendly 25mph,
and they'll drive using the same software that our existing Lexus vehicles usehe same fleet that has driven self over 1 million miles
since we started the project. The new pod isn't designed for a long trip,
it will likely even have a steering wheel and gas pedal-current California regulations require them. Those regulations also require a driver to be able to take back control of the car at any time.
But Google is lobbying for more flexible regulations. Google will initially build and test 25 pods,
mostly in neighborhoods surrounding its Mountain view headquarters. It will eventually build between 50 and 100,
is controlled computer cars that can eliminate human error, which is a factor in an estimated 90 percent of the 1. 2 million road deaths that occur worldwide each year.
Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car.
Brin insists Google doesn't aspire to be a car company, but wants its technology to be adopted by automakers.'
'We want to partner to bring self-driving to all the vehicles in the world, 'Brin told a group of journalists
and community members gathered earlier this week to take rides in the prototype. For now the traditional automakers are pursuing their own self-driving technology,
but with less ambitious timeline of 10 to 15 years for a truly driverless car. Chris Urmson, who directs Google's self-driving car project,
friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS
'This vehicle is really all about us learning.''This vehicle could go on a freeway, but when we think about introducing the technology,
we want to do that very thoughtfully and very safely, 'Urmson says. Convincing drivers that driverless technology is safe is one of the hurdles the company must overcome.
and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1. 7 million miles of testing. He says all but one of the accidents were caused by drivers in other cars;
in the only incident caused by a Google car, a staffer was driving in manual mode.
Consumers question whether they can trust self-driving cars to work all the time, who will be liable if there's an accident
and how self-driving cars will interact with regular cars, says the consulting firm J. D. Power and Associates.
and the site will feature a monthly report that will include details of any accidents involving Google cars.
when they interact with the cars. The prototype cars-assembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries-have the same array of radars, lasers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVS,
which allows them to share data. If one car's camera spots orange cones and construction signs, for example, it will alert all the others to slow down in that area or reroute around a lane closure.
Dmitri Dolgov the head of software for the self-driving car project, says Google's software has gotten much better over the last year at classifying objects, like trees and mailboxes,
and predicting behavior of pedestrians and other cars. For example, Google's cars will slow down if they sense that a car in the next lane is speeding up to cut in front of them.
And in one recent test, a Google car paused when a cyclist ran a red light.
Another car, driven by a human, went ahead and nearly hit the cyclist. The system isn't perfect.
On a test drive one of Google's Lexus SUVS seemed momentarily confused when a mail truck partially blocked its path.
Later, during a demonstration drive in Google's parking lot, the prototype-without a wheel or pedal-braked
when it spotted a row of folding chairs. It had to figure out that the chairs wouldn't move before it proceeded.
Dolgov says it's impossible to predict everything its test cars might see, so they're programmed to act in the most conservative way
when they confront something unusual, like the time a Google SUV stopped and waited while a woman in a wheelchair chased a duck with a broom.
Mercedes-benz Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
that can pilot the car on the highway with minimal input from the driver. Unlike Google, automakers think self-driving cars will arrive feature-by-feature instead of all at once,
giving people plenty of time to adapt to autonomous driving. But Urmson says that approach is'fundamentally wrong.''
''We believe that's like saying, `If I work really hard at jumping, one day
says Google's'moon shot'strategy is difficult and riskier than just adding features to existing cars.
or sell its technology to automakers. Brin says the company is still refining its plans for self-driving cars
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