which has vowed to use no motorized vehicles. This means the suit is getting tested during skiing, walking and climbing Antarctica's jagged peaks and glaciers.
The custom-built underwater vehicles are designed to dive below the surface, swim amongst marine animals, deftly navigate through underwater canyons,
or three passengers, depending on the configuration of the vehicle, and can dive to a depth of about 394 feet (120 m). See Photos of the Deepflight Super Falcon Submersible Traditionally,
which again changes the vehicle's density and enables it to float. The Super Falcon, however, dives underwater like a whale, using thrust to generate"downward lift"to help the vehicle descend below the water's surface.
Essentially, the submarine uses lift and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater.
or the vehicle loses power underwater, it will simply float back to the surface.""It looks like a James bond wild machine,
The vehicles are among the latest high-tech items geared at the super-rich, and the company already boasts some famous clients:
According to Techcrunch the company may put a item it anticipates a customer buying on a delivery truck
and keep it in ear continuous transit on trucks until a customer makes a purchase. trying to think of what item I might need so quickly that
or insects Kjeld van Bommel a TNO researcher told Popular Mechanics. In one example his group printed shortbread cookies made with milled mealworms.
If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.
Study co-leader Phillip van Mantgem of the Western Ecological Research center in Arcata California explains the mortality increase in financial terms:"
and if particulate filters in cars and factories become more common o
#Obama appoints first federal IT chief: Nature News The Blackberry-toting Barack Obama last week took a step towards modernizing the US government's information system by appointing Vivek Kundra to the newly created post of chief information officer.
#Ceramics surprise with durable dryness Coatings that repel water are found in myriad applications#they keep car windscreens clear in storms, for example,
Sheila van Holst Pellekaan, a geneticist at the University of New south wales, Australia, and a co-author of the earlier genome-wide study,
Van Holst Pellekaan wants to know whether people from other parts of Australia also show signs of the gene flow that Stoneking and his team found.
or run cars or mobile devices. Hydrogen has a high energy density and is completely clean, burning to leave behind only water vapour as waste.
potentially delivering hydrogen for fuel cells in mobile phones, computers or even cars. Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,
To produce enough power to run a car, for example, the reaction would have to yield some 24 litres of hydrogen a second;
or methanol-hydrogen systems, in cars or mobile phones are"seriously underestimating the engineering complexity of first developing a practical system
or CAR, that would target cells expressing a protein called CD19. Because CD19 is found on both healthy and cancerous B cells,
Pharmaceutical firms have tended to be wary of the CAR technique because it is technically challenging,
as well as the launch of several SMALL CAR-focused biotechnology firms. And Sadelein says that he is an investigator on a trial with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston
however, climbing prices and advances in deep-sea equipment such as remotely operated vehicles and flexible risers#pipes used to lift material#have revived interest."
Cindy Van Dover, director of the Duke university Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North carolina, has worked on assessments of deep-sea mining impacts.
which may have helped them to make hasty retreats from oncoming vehicles, according to a study published in Current Biology1.
The study s authors discovered the trend after noticing that the number of vehicle-killed birds had declined over the past three decades.
and stuffing#gathering 104 vehicle-killed adults and 134 adults killed accidentally in nets used for the study.
The team discovered that vehicle-killed birds had longer wings than birds that died in nets
and that while the wings of the vehicle-killed birds had lengthened over time, those#of net-killed birds
such as the birds learning to avoid cars. Taxidermist Johannes Erritzoe at the House of Birdresearch in Christiansfeld
Denmark, has noticed also a decline in the number vehicle-killed birds around Denmark, and suspects natural selection.
#Obama to announce $2 billion plan to get US cars off gasoline An article by Scientific American.
This afternoon, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to direct our cars, trucks and buses to a realm that doesn t include gas stations.
During a visit to Argonne National Laboratory, he will call for $2-billion energy security trust fund dedicated to research to boost automobile efficiency,
enhance battery technology and expand the use of biofuels, among other clean energy efforts. The ultimate goal:
#Car Glows Along with Driver's Heartbeat Today it is almost impossible to buy a car that is not connected in one form or another,
What about a vehicle that's connected to your heart? The RC-F Coupe glows according to the pulse of the driver.
It a new conceptual project driven by Lexus Australia and M&c Saatchi Australia creative tech division.
Despite all the tech that is already out there, they hope to increase the connectivity between car and man.
The panels of the car connect to body sensors on the driver body. As the driver pulse quickens
and slows, as it naturally does speed based on the at which the driver is going, the coupe lights up accordingly.
When hit with an electric charge, this special RF-C glows because of an electroluminescent paint. Which means that the faster you drive
Although Lexus doesn't plan to add this feature to any current cars, this concept is one step towards a larger goal:
create a car that perceives the emotions of the driver, which has the potential to prevent a lot of accidents.
then a future car might be smart enough to help take action. Google recently built a robot car that can drive by itself,
which has a similar objective. Naturally, trust would be a major factor if these initiatives became our reality.
Perhaps these connected cars will save lives as these companies envision it, but with hackers having the ability to take over vehicles,
we don't know if one connected to your heart is such a great ides. Ben Cooper, group innovation director of M&c Saatchi Australia recently had a conversation with Wired that relates the distressing potential."
which he traveled by bus to Huizhou in China's Guangdong province. Alerted by the Korean government that the man had been in close contact with a MERS patient,
#'Old-age protein'may cause memory loss The next time you forget where you left your car keys,
if a car belongs to their partner or an insurer checking a car is parked off-road as claimed.
But most of the work will involve images taken by orbiting satellites especially as recent earth observation start-ups like Planet Labs
Hydrogen fuel cells can power vehicles ranging from cars to submarines and rockets. They can also heat buildings
Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
But unlike the US Canada doesn't have its own vehicles capable of launching a satellite into orbit
arxiv. org/abs/1404.189 9
#NASA'flying saucer'for Mars to land in Hawaii In June while beachgoers in Hawaii sit blissfully unaware a flying saucer will descend over the island of Kauai.
The inflatable technology is intended to help slow down vehicles after they enter the thin Martian atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
For the car-sized Curiosity NASA invented an ambitious system called the sky crane which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
Then after spending decades building the ISS the US cancelled the space shuttle the vehicle originally intended for transport to the ISS as part of its post-Apollo programme.
After the shuttle's last flight in 2011 though the US became dependent on Russia for transport to the ISS using Soyuz at a cost of nearly $71 million for each seat it requires.
NASA's suspension of working with the Russians will likely be received in Russia much the same way other sanctions over its actions in Ukraine have been:
of which acts as the engine's throttle is applied. Lozano's team have fired the thrusters in the lab
Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X were launched to the International space station (ISS) on 3 august aboard a Japanese resupply vehicle
lightweight satellites that can piggyback on the launches of other vehicles.""That way every rocket that goes up is kicking off Cubesats,
Developing cybersecurity policy frameworks for autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars; andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.
But they saw that in the cafeteria certain people only sat with three other people (at four-seat tables)
while others sat with 11 people (at 12-seat tables). Those who sat at larger tables were 36 percent more productive during the week.
so trucks can safely haul them on highways and under bridges. This means that in the United states, most towers for 2-or 3-megawatt turbines are limited to about 260 feet.
at developing advanced drivetrain controls and rotor designs. ut out of that study we spotted tower transport as one of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the industry,
They researched and implemented methods for controlling a large robotic arm out of that from a boom truck,
Agha-mohammadi says the system may help speed up the development of self-driving cars, package-delivering drones,
and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles. s designers, when we can compare the robot perceptions with how it acts,
The engineers mounted 18 motion-capture cameras on the ceiling to track multiple robotic vehicles simultaneously.
Agha-mohammadi says. epending on where the vehicle is, you can look at the environment from different angles,
Because the Federal aviation administration has placed restrictions on outdoor testing of quadrotors and other autonomous flying vehicles Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.
and can test and prototype your vehicles as if theye fully outdoors, before you deploy them in the real world,
For example, with this technology, we could simulate clouds above an environment monitored by a high-flying vehicle
If all midsized carrier networks were to replace current radio amplifiers with Eta Devices technology he says the reduction in greenhouse gases would be equivalent to taking about 5 million cars off the road.
but they were so effective in this study that Cima says they may end up being the most promising vehicle for potential human clinical trials.
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
These fatty molecules have shown promise as delivery vehicles for RNA interference a process that allows disease-causing genes to be turned off with small strands of RNA.#
Yanik s lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood-brain barrier a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs
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
To get the CRISPR components into bacteria the researchers created two delivery vehicles engineered bacteria that carry CRISPR genes on plasmids
Multiple uses for quick changes While troops and vehicles often move from one environment to another,
either on uniforms or on vehicles, could allow the camouflage patterns to constantly change in response to the surroundings. he U s. military spends millions developing different kinds of camouflage patterns,
a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,
customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators, and communication devices configure settings,
Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,
#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:
The car service company Uber was recently valued at $18 billion and even as it faces legal wrangles a number of companies that provide similar services with licensed taxi cabs have sprung up.
Of course nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle says Carlo Ratti professor of the practice in MIT s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper s coauthors.
David Mahfouda the CEO of the car-and taxi-hailing company Bandwagon whose business model is built specifically around ride sharing says that his company hired analysts to examine the same data set that Santi
if you re willing to share vehicles s
#A new way to diagnose malaria Over the past several decades malaria diagnosis has changed very little.
co-invented by Anthony Patera, the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Knezevic and Huynh.
A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries a potential source of lead pollution into new,
But by using recycled lead from old car batteries, the manufacturing process can instead be used to divert toxic material from landfills
the team analysis shows that the lead from a single car battery could produce enough solar panels to provide power for 30 households.
Battery pileup ahead One motivation for using the lead in old car batteries is that battery technology is undergoing rapid change, with new, more efficient types, such as lithium-ion batteries,
but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
You could coat this on your car windshield to manipulate rain or sunlight says Yangying Zhu a graduate student in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
In the car you can wear varifocals but varifocals distort the geometry of the outside world
but can be as large as trucks and operate at about 20 percent efficiency. Then came diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers including disk
It s now time to step on the gas pedal Stanley says. I am devoting my personal wealth to this goal.
This is a completely intuitive and natural way to move your robotic fingers says Harry Asada the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
Now this wireless electricity (or Witricity) technology licensed through the researchers startup Witricity Corp.#is coming to mobile devices electric vehicles and potentially a host of other applications.
Back in December Toyota licensed Witricity technology for a future line of electric cars. Several more publicized
and TDK for wireless electric vehicle-charging systems. There s even talk of a helmet powered wirelessly via backpack specifically for military applications.
At present Witricity technology#charges devices#at around 6 to 12 inches with roughly 95 percent efficiency#12 watts for mobile devices and up to 6. 6 kilowatts for cars.
Courtesy of Witricity Corp. Full Screen The Witricity technology can charge an electric car with the vehicle parked about a foot above the transmitting pad.
and water Whenever there is a major spill of oil into water the two tend to mix into a suspension of tiny droplets called an emulsion that is extremely hard to separate and that can cause severe damage to ecosystems.
or perhaps even vehicles. Detailed studies of aerodynamics have shown that while a ball with a dimpled surface has half the drag of a smooth one at lower speeds,
Another application could be the exterior of automobiles, where the ability to adjust the texture of panels to minimize drag at different speeds could increase fuel efficiency,
called a bus . When two cores need to communicate, theye granted exclusive access to the bus. But that approach won work as the core count mounts:
Cores will spend all their time waiting for the bus to free up, rather than performing computations.
In a network-on-chip, each core is connected only to those immediately adjacent to it. ou can reach your neighbors really quickly,
One advantage of a bus, however, is that it makes it easier to maintain cache coherence.
If all the cores share a bus, then when one of them receives a data request,
. But it will hold it until it passed along 1. This hierarchical ordering simulates the chronological ordering of requests sent over a bus,
and test winches and cables Looking back Glass credits his undergraduate years on MIT s Solar Electrical Vehicle Team a student organization that builds and races solar
cars for competition with giving him the experience and motivation to bring the BAT from concept to reality.
RNAI delivery vehicles. They also showed that they could block up to five genes at once by delivering different RNA sequences.
all led by MIT Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry, and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering.
For the past four years, Van Voorhis and Baldo have been pooling their theoretical and experimental expertise to investigate this problem.
Van Voorhis says. To support his theoretical study of electron behavior within PVS, Van Voorhis used experimental data gathered in samples specially synthesized by Baldo and Timothy Swager, MIT John D. Macarthur Professor of Chemistry.
The samples were made of four types of exciton fission molecules decorated with various sorts of pinachbulky side groups of atoms that change the molecular spacing without altering the physics or chemistry.
Van Voorhisnew first-principles formula successfully predicts the fission rate in materials with vastly different structures.
Van Voorhis says. he controversial, or xotic, mechanisms proposed more recently aren required to explain what being observed here.
Van Voorhis says. hat the reason that 50 years ago they couldn compute these things
which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints has a number of other promising applications from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars.
but you re processing signals on a vehicle or something where you did not have significant computational power.
It could also eliminate 10 trucks of wastewater shipping per day for Lagunitas. All in the design Increasingly, the beverage industry has employed anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment processes
and fuel consumption electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base.
and charging them requires plug-in infrastructure that s still sparse in the United states. Now MIT spinout XL Hybrids is upfitting (and retrofitting) gas and diesel commercial vans and trucks with fuel-saving add-on electric powertrains
According to tests conducted by the startup the $8000 system which has been incorporated into hundreds of vans in the commercial fleets of Coca-cola
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
When the vehicles brake a process known as regenerative braking captures the kinetic energy (usually dissipated as heat through friction) and converts it into electricity that charges the battery
The startup also collects operational data from the vehicles to inform fleet managers of the best vehicles for the technology usually ones traveling in the stop
Last month Fast Company ranked the startup No. 35 on its list of the world s 50 most innovative companies and third in energy-specific companies trailing only Tesla motors and General electric.
and other companies have started retrofitting vehicles with electric powertrains. But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.
At the end of the day it s about making the economics work to compete against the price of fuel Hynes says adding We re able to do a lot with a little.
Electric or hybrid fleet vehicles traditionally run on large batteries sometimes more than 100 kilowatt-hours (kwh) in capacity that cost upward of $40000.
which involves running a vehicle on treadmill-like rollers to estimate fuel mileage in urban driving.
They first ran a 5-ton vehicle through the test without XL Hybrids system and then with the system observing a 21 percent savings.
While the system can be added as a retrofit it s generally installed as part of the modifications that most commercial fleet vehicles go through.
The vehicles literally roll of the line and go to facilities where they ll be modified anyway he says.
The trio began grinding away in a garage in Somerville Mass. conducting early trials on the Ford Crown Victoria
and incorporate it onto other vehicle makes and models and rapidly scale across the industry Hynes says.
and could hoist 250 pounds 50 feet vertically in five seconds a remarkably high power-to-weight ratio exceeding that of a Dodge Viper, the team calculated.
rescuers can store the APA in a seat compartment, as it won compromise the chopper weight capacity.
says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study,
and in autonomous vehicle control among other applications gauge depth by emitting short bursts of laser light
which are at a premium in autonomous vehicles trying to avoid collisions. The system can also use the same reflected photons to produce images of a quality that a conventional imaging system would require 900 times as much light to match
could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking
as if pressing on a gas pedal. The joint is weaker when tilting from side to side,
with a wooden seat and a hand-cranked sheller at its side. Cobs are fed into the sheller opening
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
The startup deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in uilding envelopeswindows, doors, walls,
In one night, the cars can generate more than 3 terabytes of data, which is downloaded to an onboard system and processed at the startup Boston headquarters.
the idea for thermal-imaging cars came to Sarma in 2009, when a company sent an employee to his home with a handheld thermal-imaging device
ouldn it be easier to just throw it on a car and drive by the house??
#Vanishing friction Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
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.
because they interfere with pollution control systems in vehicles and contribute to acid rain and smog. Processes now used to upgrade
Now MIT spinout Cambridge Electronics Inc. CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centers, electric cars,
electric cars cheaper and more powerful, and laptop power adapters one-third the size or even small enough to fit inside the computer itself. his is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change electronics
will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric cars. These are in the chargers that charge the battery,
The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
This is one of the main reasons why there are few large electric vehicles. Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars
while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and, therefore, cheaper and capable of driving longer distances. lectric vehicles are popular,
but still a niche product. Gan power electronics will be key to make them mainstream, Palacios says.
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