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big exits from recent years include Buddy Media, Makerbot, Kayak, and Indeed. com (which is based technically in Connecticut), all of
The Solar impulse plane has crossed just successfully the US in five stages#from San francisco to New york. And the world's largest solar-powered boat, the Turanor Planet Solar,
The USS Nimitz and other ships have already been ordered into the region, suggesting that if a strike were to happen the use of F-18 strike fighter jets
As a result, less traditional species are expected to increasingly find their way into trawlers, supermarkets and restaurants.
What the point of working near the water if you don have a boat? Redwood City, California-based icracked,
field tripsnd a company yacht. Watertown, Massachusetts-based UX design outfit Fresh Tilled Soil sends employees to envy-inducing places
shrink, detective, wizard, ship captain, cheerleader and flag-waver. But now, even those roles what you might call the oftskills,
The expansion covering over 70 percent of its entire fleet represents an increase from the 32 ships announced in September 2013.
being used for the first time in the restricted space found on cruise ships. The systems will enable Carnival Corporation to meet new regulations that place a cap on sulfur content of fuel oil at 0. 1 percent
In addition to those 41 ships, two other Carnival Corporation brands, AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises, will also install the systems 10 ships for AIDA Cruises and six ships for Costa Cruises.
and having the new systems on our ships will be another effective way for us to meet that objective.
In September 2013, Carnival Corporation announced it had pioneered adapting a proven exhaust gas cleaning technology to use on its ships.
The implementation of the ECO-EGC systems has allowed also Carnival Cruise lines to return ships to homeporting in Baltimore and Norfolk
For the first time this combination is being developed to accommodate restricted spaces on existing ships. Carnival Corporation plan incorporates a two-pronged system one to reduce particulates from the ship engine emissions,
and another to use seawater to crubsulfur compounds from the exhaust gases. Though widely used on land, the system incorporation in oceangoing vessels is considered a significant advancement in environmental technology.
) Together, these brands operate 101 ships totaling 212,000 lower berths with seven new ships scheduled to be delivered between fall 2014 and summer 2016.
#Safer cruise ships thanks to EU-funded research The three-year LYNCEUS project which ends in early 2015 is demonstrating how low-power wireless technologies can help localise
and track people onboard ships providing essential information in cases of evacuation and improve overboard search and rescue.
The aim is to revolutionise current emergency management and ship evacuation practice. We have developed innovative wireless tags
which can be embedded into life jackets so the location of people within the ship can be pinpointed easily said Dr. Anastasis Kounoudes technical leader and CEO of Signalgenerix one of the project partners.
or help parents keep track of the location of their children on large cruise ships which can carry thousands of passengers and crew.
By redesigning the ships they would have up to 20%more chance of surviving groundings or collisions.
Safer & Faster Ship Evacuations-Futuris Video on Youtub b
#Factories of the future: assembly-line machines do their own'thinking'A major consumer of time and money in the manufacturing of aircraft, motor vehicles,
an oceangoing ship requires very specific and precise action, current robotic systems are often not flexible enough to carry out every repair required.
and tugboats to bring fresh water to the hardest-hit coastal and island regions around the Mediterranean.
and cost-effective system to transport fresh water by sea using flexible plastic containers water-bags towed by a tugboat.
With the initial investment focused mainly on constructing the water-bag and renting or purchasing a tugboat,
the Refresh approach is more cost effective than using tanker ships where fresh water is priced around EUR 14/m3 or huge infrastructures, such as pipelines or desalination plants.
or near-shore infrastructures and the running costs are kept low thanks to the use of tugboats.
#Shiparrestor#New rescue tool to save ships in distress To speed and improve rescue operations
parachute-shaped"sea anchor"to slow down a drifting ship and put it in a better position for rescue and recovery operations.
the sea anchor had turned a 120,000-tonne fuel tanker and slowed its drift by 58 percent.
When a ship loses power, it will often turn so that wind and waves are striking the vessel perpendicularly causing it to rock side-to-side.
and repair crews to board a ship in such an unstable condition. In a worst-case scenario, a drifting ship can tip over,
be driven onto a beach or rocky coast, or slam into an oil rig, lighthouse or other structure.
First, a helicopter drops a lasso that is fastened to the ship's bow. Next, a 200-metre chain is dropped into the water.
At the end of the chain is a 30-metre-wide sea anchor that opens under water like a parachute both slowing down the drifting ship and turning it 90 degrees.
With the wind and waves now in parallel to the ship instead of hitting the ship from the side the rolling motion is reduced greatly.
This allows the rescue team to board the ship more easily rescue the crew and make repairs.
Finally, a tugboat arrives, picks up a buoy that is connected to the sea anchor, and pulls the ship back to port."
"The system could be used all over the world anywhere a coast needs to be protected, "said Duncan Cunningham of Miko Marine,
Determines Calories and More SCIO is currently available for pre-order on the company website with as estimated ship date of July 2015.
bug that strikes millions of people every year in schools hotels and cruise ships.####The biggest hurdle to doing norovirus research for its entire historyâ
and radar systems for aircraft ships and satellites can be extremely heavy and large so minimizing the size of these systems could provide significant savings.
Bulky radar domes (known as adomes like those seen on military ships keep ice and freezing rain from forming directly on antennas.
But Gupta and his landlubbing team had no idea that a search for F-18 would identify not only images of a fighter jet but also of F18-class catamarans.
For example drug smugglers recently have deployed makeshift submarines to clandestinely ferry narcotics long distances underwater. An improved more robust underwater sensor network could help spot these vessels.
Then they re stuck like a ship in a bottle. e sequentially load the individual parts of the complex into the zeolitemartã says. he parts are smaller than the pores
The Ember is expected to ship by Mid-march, pending approval from the FCC. Autodesk has yet to release the actual open-source documentation for the machine,
#Octopus inspires silent propulsion system for boats and subs Along with their writhing tentacles octopi and squid sport another interesting feature-they swim not by swishing a tail
Scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation have copied now this system in a propulsion system that could ultimately find use in boats recreational watercraft or submarines.
the number of electric cars boats and bikes in operation continues to grow and it's essential for the future sustainability of the planet that these vehicles are able to cope with the increasing demands being put on them.
Because RF Safe-Stop works on electronic systems, it can also be effective on boats. However, it s likely useless against older cars.
A Square-like card reader attachment that ships with Coin plugs into your iphone s headphone jack.
a boat or motorbike. One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kwh of electricity,
the oil produced is used for tour buses or boats, Ito says.####Plastic s carbon footprint includes landfilling and incineration,
Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,
or worse, ship vast amounts of technological equipment to whatever destination they are playing. The gloves are a compact,
and is being heralded as a ame changerbecause it could allow military ships to develop their own fuel and stay operational 100 percent of the time,
Our gas station comes to us in terms of an oiler, a replenishment ship. Developing a game-changing technology like this, seawater to fuel
The USS Zumwalt will be the first ship with a brain of its own. Among the high-tech features included on the USS Zumwaltannons that fire rocket-propelled,
GPS-guided rounds and stealth design that gives the 610-foot ship the radar signature of a small fishing vesselhere also a computer intelligence capable of preparing the ship for battle
which made most of the ship computer systems. his is a $5 billion UAV. Unlike aerial drones,
If the ship smoke alarms and cameras detect a fire, the ship will turn on the sprinklers
and seal off the area. When the fire is out, the ship knows to drain the water so the crew can investigate.
All of this automation means the ship will carry a crew of just over 150alf of
what would normally be required on a ship of this size. In a pinch, it can be manned by a crew of 40.
The Zumwalt also boasts what Raytheon calls a Total Ship Computing Environment, which allows it to be controlled from any of a couple dozen consoles around the ship.
If the captain happens to be on the bow or the stern rather than up on the bridge when there an emergency,
he can still take control of the ship. e got that capability right where he at;
he doesn have to run 600 feet and up multiple levels to get up to where he has to be,
Asked how the ship will be guarded against hackers, Knudson replies: t the same ways that we protect information in classified networks,
Even if an impostor did succeed in tricking the ship into thinking he was the captain, it unlikely a hacker could fire the weaponshat process involves more than one person.
The original plan was for 32zumwalt-style ships, but escalating research and development costs drew congressional ire.
and engage anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.
"Other applications include general anchoring, even in boats, "he added.""We could also use the Roboclam to lay underwater cable,
and small boats, should the need arise. The 30-kilowatt laser weapon system (Laws) is housed aboard the USS Ponce,
If an enemy boat or aircraft gets too close to a Navy ship, the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling."
In recent tests, Laws successfully hit targets aboard a small boat that was speeding toward the Navy ship.
These future lasers could one day be deployed on both large destroyer ships (used to launch missiles) and smaller combat ships
In a 2011 test, a laser weapon disabled multiple small boats launched from a U s. warship. And in 2012, Laws downed several drones during a naval test of the system t
which ferries commuters between Bristol Airport in North Somerset and the historic tourist-inundated city of Bath with several local stops in between.
changing the ship's density and creating so-called negative buoyancy when the gravitational tug on the sub is greater than the force of buoyancy.
and poured into tankers, before chemical reactions convert the liquid back to hydrogen where it is needed#for example to provide power to off-grid villages,
"The seals went to an area of the coastline that no ship was ever going to get to,
The equipment would grind down the nodules to create a slurry that would be pumped to ships
The ship usually carries a crew of geologists, but this time,"we had five microbiologists on board,
The team was using ship-based sonar to search for sediment that had been disturbed by earthquakes.
creating a buoyant force just like the one that floats a boat. That means that the height at which a cell levitates depends on its density.
The cargo ship carrying the Cubesats should arrive at the ISS on 9 august and the satellites will then be deployed using a robotic-arm technique tested last year.
For the test flight the rocket climbed high into a clear blue sky carrying a mock cargo ship with the same mass
Smith explains. ut there no way to weld together a tower in a factory that 20 feet in diameter and ship it to the wind farm.
Shipping up to Boston Fiber-optic cables are deployed typically from a sailing vessel, which unfurls lengths of cable from a large spool.
Depending on how the sailing speed of the boat relates to the speed of the spool
or in meandering, coiling patterns. f the boat is sailing slower than the rate of the cable,
But if the boat is traveling faster, then the cable can get taut and fracture,
that the height from which a filament is deployed does not influence its coiling patterns good news for ships that navigate choppy waters to deploy fiber-optic cables. his is important because,
as a ship sails, the height of the ocean floor relative to the surface is changing all the time,
Grinspun says. e also know that how big you make the spools on the ship does matter.
Originally designed to look for cracks in nuclear reactors water tanks the robot could also inspect ships for the false hulls
Fleets of them could swarm over ships at port without alerting smugglers and giving them the chance to jettison their cargo.
It s very expensive for port security to use traditional robots for every small boat coming into the port says Sampriti Bhattacharyya a graduate student in mechanical engineering who designed the robot together with her advisor Ford Professor of Engineering
but it s a liability when it s traveling in a straight line scanning the hull of a ship.
while she and Asada have demonstrated the robot s ability to travel along a smooth surface the hulls of many ships will have encrustations that might prevent continuous contact.
Zhao says the same basic approach could eventually lead to production of large, flexible display screens and antifouling coatings for ships.
is for an antifouling coating on the hulls of ships, where microbes and creatures such as barnacles can accumulate
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#An easier way to manipulate malaria genes Plasmodium falciparum the parasite that causes malaria has proven notoriously resistant to scientists efforts to study its genetics.
and whichever one has the data ships it back. If all the cores share a bus,
Stocker says in some cases that phenomenon could lead to new approaches to tuning flow rates to prevent fouling of surfaces by microbes potentially averting everything from bacteria getting a toehold on medical equipment to biofilms causing drag on ship hulls.
the APA is now being used by all four military branches on the battlefield and in training to climb mountains, buildings, and ships.
and raising a ship anchor produces a tighter grip as more line wraps around a cylinder
from the nanoscale to the macroscale. he applications and related impact of their novel method propels a huge variety of research fields investigating effects relevant from raft tectonics down to biological systems
Anodized metal could also have marine applications, such as keeping ship hulls free of algae. The collaborating group from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute is led by Diana Borca-Tasciuc, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering.
or even space ships of the future!!!virtusphere google it this is what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
and whether the noise of passing ships has physiological effects.##This article originally appeared in the December 2013 issue of Popular Science n
and is supplied only by ship from Punta arenas Chile. When I visited the station for a journalism fellowship in 2010
#Navy Demonstrates Swarm Of Armed Robot Boats Call them sea drones dronaughts or roboats the Navy demonstrated a swarm of remotely-controlled boats on the James river In virginia this August.
As if animated by the same mind the13 patrol boats all moved in unison their crewless decks painting a picture of
while still keeping boats in the water. Here s what that exercise looked like: Key to the boats is named a program Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing or CARACAS.
According to the ONR CARACAS allows boats to operate autonomously without a sailor physically needing to be at the controls including operating in sync with other unmanned vessels;
choosing their own routes; swarming to interdict enemy vessels; and escorting/protecting naval assets. In the demonstration the Navy boats first escorted a high value unit simulating a ring of robotic bodyguards around a vessel in a narrow part of the sea.
Then with the support of a manned helicopter overhead designating a contact of interest for the boats to intercept they swarmed around their target.
The boats'autonomy is enabled by a sort of hive-sense. The unmanned surface vessels are linked and together they share information from their sensors.
Each boat knows its own surrounding environment and the location of other vessels and it shares this situation awareness with the other ships in the swarm.
On the phone with media Read Admiral Matthew L. Klunder and ONR program manager Robert Brizzolara confirmed that
while the robot ships had the ability to move on their own there is always a human in the loop before the robot boats fire their weapons.
And that human may very well be singular; the 13 ships of this demonstration were controlled all by one sailor.
Should the signal with the controller be lost the boats will stop themselves. There s also another kill switch that the controller can press to make the robot boats stop dead in the water.
The boats are all patrol craft typically crewed by four to five sailors. Replacing the crew with robotic controls means the Navy needs 40 to 50 fewer people for a 13-ship exercise.
That means more lives out of harms way as well as saved costs on personnel. The boats are existing Navy craft
and ONR said they were armed with a variety of weapons--from. 50 caliber machine guns to high-powered microwave weapons.
For the immediate future this means that the Navy can do more with less. They can perform more patrols
since unmanned swarms of up to 20 boats can be controlled by one sailor at a time. And they can use fewer people;
round-the-clock patrols only require one new sailor at the controls every few hours instead of 50 sailors out in the water every time.
but it's possible that an unmanned robot boat could intercept a vessel full of suicide bombers.
but autonomy and swarming have the potential for so much more than just intercepting small boats. Klunder says that
while people might not accept CARACAS on a destroyer soon the technology would work for merchant vessels and larger ships.
In order to determine how much underwater mass was associated with a surface bump the researchers developed a scientific model using the laws of gravity calibrated by actual measurements taken by survey ships.
These ships which are responsible for mapping the 10 percent of the ocean s floor that s been mapped so far use specialized sonar systems called multibeam echo sounders to acquire detailed depth information of the seafloor.
#A Space Game Gets Real 1) Players can purchase virtual ships for $25 to $1250 (in real money) depending on model and availability.
Many people who ponied up knew they would have to wait more than a year in some cases to play. 2) Between six and 16 thrusters move the game s ships
As a ship sustains damage and its cargo is loaded unloaded or lost its center of mass changes
That might strain the ship s components. 2011 Developers begin building Star Citizen in secret revealing just enough details to entice investors. 10/10/12 Crowdfunding campaign begins
and reaches its $2 million goal before the end of the month. 08/29/13 A hangar module launches allowing backers to walk around inside their ships. 06/04/14 A dogfighting module releases that lets players battle the computer and other
players in one of three ships. Late 2014 A first-person shooter module is set to be introduced. 2015 A planet-side social module will be added allowing players to explore cities. 2015 The single-player military campaign Squadron 42
#Russia Orders Helicopters For Its New Amphibious assault Ships Russia recently ordered a batch of new attack helicopters,
including 32 that could go onto a new amphibious assault ship. There's just one hitch: France is building that ship,
and following Russia's invasion of Crimea and support for Donetsk separatists in Eastern Ukraine, there's a lot of international pressure for France to cancel the order.
The contract with French shipbuilders specified two Mistral class ships built in France, and then two more built in Russia.
They'll be the first amphibious assault ships for Russia. It's likely each of the four ships would only fly eight attack helicopters so the full order for 32 indicates that Russia expects full delivery of the ships.
The first completed vessel is the Vladivostok, and France is set to deliver it late this year.
Presently, the Mistral-class ships wouldn't let Russia do all that much more in the wars it's most likely to fight,
and Japan have expressed all disappointment that France still plans to sell the ships. In a barely subtle move
the construction of a pre-treatment facility for the removal and treatment of those hazardous materials from ships that raise'special concerns';
Once approved, the yards will officially meet the standards of the International Hong kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.'
'Japanese companies own 2000 out of the total 3000 major ships in the world'points out Keiji Tomoda, chairman of the Ship Recycling Subcommittee of the Japanese Ship Owners'Association.'
'Most of the Japanese-owned ships go to China for recycling after their life. But we want to sell end-of-life ships to India
because India offers better prices than China
#Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3d printing technology.
and research ships. All those methods have their limitations (e g. buoys are only gathering info from a fixed location)
and cells forming tissues to ants building rafts to float on water and birds flocking to avoid becoming prey.
#Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry,
and ZHDK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of conducting visual inspections of ship ballasts.
when they cannot operate their ships during the inspection period. Because robotic ship inspection can occur
while the ship is in operation it could significantly reduce dry-dock time. The Ship Inspection Robot (SIR) which was developed in conjunction with Alstom Inspection Robotics and
which uses magnetic wheels to navigate the I-beams and other awkward obstacles found inside ship ballast is relatively compact
and does not require any cables for power or communication and thus offers significant mobility improvements over other robotic ship inspection prototypes.
Cargo ships which transport everything from bananas coffee grain coal heavy equipment chemicals oil and gas are the backbone of intercontinental trade
According to the International Shipping#Facts and Figures report published by the International Maritime Organisation there were 103 392 commercial ships in service by January 2011.
This is especially true for a ship#s ballast tanks which are filled with seawater to compensate for weight changes as cargo is loaded and unloaded.
and stiffeners separated by bulkheads ballast tanks form much of a ship#s supporting structure. The surface of ballast tanks is subject to saltwater exposure
A standard visual inspection which can only be conducted with the ship in dry-dock after about a two-day venting period serves as a kind of triage for determining
Ship owners must pay for every day in dry-dock (16k to 25k per day) and in addition they face loss of income
Alstom Inspection Robotics proposed a project that would result in a lightweight low-cost robot for inspecting ships
In order to research the state-of-the-art of the ship inspection process we went to a shipyard in Rotterdam to interview ship owners inspectors
As part of a round-the-year continuous inspection the ship owner decides to use a four-day cruise to inspect part of the ballast tank.
The next time a ship is due for inspection the damage map is checked and necessary equipment and material are ordered before the ship even enters the dry dock.
 Once in dry dock the ship is vented and known repairs begin without delay at the same time as small
or complexly shaped areas (like the bow) are inspected manually. A full inspection is shifted to the end of the drydocking:
The prototypethe focus project resulted in a prototype for a relatively small cable-less robotic ship inspection system that we call the Ship Inspection Robot (SIR.
How it works SIR features four overlapping magnetic wheels which allow the unit to maintain continual contact with the ship#surface even as it navigates sharp angles vertical surfaces and overhangs.
The ability to climb all these additional obstacles is not only beneficial for ship inspection but also useful for many other robot applications such as power plant inspections.
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