#The scooter that doubles as a suitcase A Chinese private entrepreneur, He Liangcai, recently obtained a patent for a product that turns a regular suitcase into a rechargeable scooter.
Mr. He says the suitcase-scooter can carry 2 adults at once and travel as far as 37 miles in one charge
dubbing it an rban scooter. Turning a suitcase into an electric scooter up with a suitcase was no easy task.
According to local reports, Mr. He spent over 10 years to break through the technology issues, such as how to develop the right kind of wheels.
and other devices pulled along behind tractors. Planters have changed radically since they were simple boxes that pushed seeds into the soil at fixed intervals.
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
even if in some limited form, they may be able to diffuse rising public anger and mistrust over armed unmanned vehicles.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
Theye also relatively expensive if you need a bunch of them to power an electric car,
which is why Tesla cars are only really attainable by the wealthy right now. An all-carbon battery A battery that uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode could be safer than a lithium ion battery
While battery fires have been rare for electric car companies, Tesla, GM and others have seen all a handful of cars with punctured batteries catch on fire,
and have faced PR hiccups as a result. Thermal runaway intense, long-lasting fires caused by lithium oxide catching on fire has long been the Achillesheel of lithium ion batteries.
if they want to scale up production to offer batteries to electric cars. Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries,
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
In the immediate future, electric cars at least from dominant players Tesla and Nissan are betting on lithium ion chemistry for batteries.
But farther down the line, other types of chemistries will need to be investigated to provide power for the next generation of electric cars h
hoping to use it to beam power to buildings, cars, and dirigibles until his funding was canceled by J p morgan.
This panel will be suspended by 6-mile-long wires connected to a small bus which will house the satellite controls and communication systems.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus acts as a counterweight to the huge panel.
while the bus will be tugged upward by the opposite effects. This balancing of forces will keep the satellite in a stable orbit,
Allows mechanical devices such as tractors to warn mechanics that a failure is likely to occur soon.
Intra-tractor communication can be used as a rudimentary arm swarmplatform. Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream in 2016;
tractors or agbots can procedurally apply inputs at variable rates throughout the field. Scientifically viable in 2013;
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
with the first test cars now driving around the Swedish city of Gothenburg. he test cars are now able to handle lane following, speed adaption,
Technical Specialist at Volvo Car Group. his is an important step towards our aim that the final rive Mecars will be able to drive the whole test route in highly autonomous mode.
enables the driver to hand over the driving to the vehicle, which takes care of all driving functions.
The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.
and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science
Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in
which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen
The aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility e
#Electric car sales growing 100%every year Actually, electric car sales are growing a little bit more than 100%.%Every year more and more electric car models are hitting the market.
As more consumers begin to adopt the technology electric car sales continue to improve. EV sales are currently growing at a rate of more than 100 percent a year according to a recent report.
In 2010 only 25,000 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold around the world, but by the end of 2011 80,000 electric vehicles were sold.
In 2012,200, 000 electric vehicles were sold and just last year 405,000 EVS found homes globally. Why are electric cars selling better than ever before?
A few years ago if a car buyer wanted to buy a fully electric car, their only option was to walk into a showroom for the Nissan leaf.
But now there are several electric and plug-in electric hybrid models to choose from. Also since lithium-ion battery costs have dropped,
electric car prices have dropped also, meaning that there are now several electric cars with price tags around $30, 000.
Will the trend continue? Signs point to yes many automakers like BMW and Kia are just starting to release electric cars,
and over the next few years there will be more electric and plug-in hybrid models to choose from than ever before.
One issue holding electric cars back is the lack of EV infrastructure, but cities all over the world are installing charging stations.
The technology will also continue to improve, and the next generation of electric cars will have longer driving ranges
and faster charging times t
#DNA computers deliver drugs inside cockroaches Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal.
A computer inside a cockroach. The DNA computers known as origami robots because they work by folding
which are suitable for our watches, our cars or phones, we can use these robots in life domains,
vehicles and the ground. These are used to reduce energy and water consumption and pollution. Dubai, United arab emirates Although in the early stages yet, Dubai announced plans last year to turn itself into a smart city.
#In-car facial recognition system can detect road rage Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
and developing an in-car emotion detection system designed to watch out for emotions like anger and disgust.
or trigger a limiting function on the car speed to make the driver aware and maintain safe driving.
and electric cars will refuel while sitting on the driveway. Witricity have demonstrated already their ability to power laptops, cellphones,
and an electric car refueller is reportedly in the works. Hall sees a bright future for the family without wires:
I going to drive my car home and I never going to have to go to the gas station
robots that kill raise moral questions far more complicated than those posed by probes or delivery vehicles.
The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.
the Raven is primarily a surveillance vehicle but among its capabilities is arget acquisition. No one knows for sure what other technologies may be in development. ransparency
and building a hot electric car. It also made breakthroughs in many aspects of the automotive business (the sales channel, the servicing,
the over-the-air-software updates) and now it doing the same thing for the core part of the electric car:
This week Tesla revealed more details about its plans to build a massive the largest of its kind in the world battery factory in the U s. that will produce enough lithium-ion batteries by 2020 to outfit 500,000 electric cars.
its cars are constrained by global battery production, and it would need to use all of the batteries produced for electric cars in 2013
(and then some) to make those 500,000 per year by 2020. According to Navigant Research analyst Sam Jaffe, Tesla already used half of all the batteries made for electric cars in the world in 2013 for its Model S car (22,477 cars sold.
In terms of global lithium ion and advanced battery production beyond just for electric cars Tesla so-called igafactoryis still massive;
it jaw-dropping actually. According to Navigant figures, battery factories in the world produced close to 27 gigawatt hours of advanced batteries (the vast majority of these,
The end goal for Tesla is that cheap batteries could help Tesla deliver its $35, 000 third generation electric car.
while, allowing users to perform transformations as unconsciously as they might drive a car or play an instrument.
when driving a car, cycling, eating with Chinese sticks or playing sports or instruments, he explains. n contrast,
But combining telecommunications with the Bitcoin blockchain presents more intriguing possibilities for example, cars able to read the blockchain could disable themselves
In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.
and the world they live in is an extremely visual one. ill Van Eron owner of Headwaters
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Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,
The findings support IHS Automotive global forecast of nearly 12 million self-driving cars in 2035, with nearly all autos likely to be self-driving on some level by 2050.
the report said. oogle path goes through low-speed testing of self-driving cars in restricted areas beginning in 2015 and lasting three to five years,
the report co-author. he next stage is small-scale deployment of low-speed L5 self-driving vehicles in campus-like environments
and self-driving vehicles will have tremendous long-term impact on the auto industry, Juliussen said. t will also likely have a positive influence on auto sales and vehicles in operation after 2035,
presumably adding another 50 years of growth to the sector. Without these advancements, it is possible that the auto industry could stagnate in 10 to 15 years. 1
vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. ur Microsoft certified solution comes preconfigured with quad Intel Xeon E7 processors, Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator cards, memory,
Designer from Holland Teresa Van Donge a
#Medifocus Granted Patent for the Treatment and Prevention of Breast cancer Medifocus, Inc. TSXV: MFS, OTCQX:
and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.
and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud. Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial
a Massachusetts-based company that builds and operates robotic underwater vehicles for defense, commercial and scientific purposes.
The Roboclam could anchor Bluefin Robotics'vehicles when they need to remain stationary in a current,
or inside the cylinder shaft of a car engine, being much more heat resistant than an electrical system.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
The MEMS market is estimated to be $14 billion in 2014, growing to over $22 billion by 2018, a CAGR of 13%per annum.
and 240-ton mining truck to a large open-pit mining operation in the western United states. The mine recently experienced a series of landslides.
Equipment is driven manually to a transition zone, where the operator leaves the vehicle cab. The equipment operator then goes into the Integrated Remote Operations center (IROC) that contains two operator stations and a spotter.
the vehicle is driven remotely into the hazardous zone. The operator control station is designed to exactly mirror the control center in the cab,
The operator station is able to be installed in a vehicle, trailer or containers with the control and interface systems designed to mimic the setup of a physical rig to improve operator familiarity with the system.
The lenses could even be applied to allow drivers to see through blind spots on their vehicles
#Could bacteria from honeybees replace antibiotics? Bacteria are increasingly outsmarting our most overused antibiotics creating a boom of drug-resistant diseases.
It's half-bike half-electric car Meet the Twike. It a made-in-Germany combination of an electric bicycle with an EV.
but very few in the U s. It can be registered as a motorcycle which means you don need airbags and crash tests.
The made-in-America equivalent of the Twike is named another three wheeler the ELF which Ie had the pleasure of pedaling around places as diverse as Darien Connecticut and Chattanooga Tennessee.
I bullish on these neighborhood-type trikes which make great commuter vehicles. Highway friendly they're not
It can also do a better job than current in-car systems of predicting how much range youe got left again based on driving behavior and such factors as terrain and temperature.
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
Humanoid Robots to Flying cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects After the team constructed the chip, Modha halted work for a month and offered a $1,
Today's computers laptops, smartphones and even cars suffer from visual and sensory impairment, Modha said.
#BMW offers free (and fast) EV charging Thinking about buying an electric car but worried about range and places to plug in?
and range extender REX cars) but BMW Healey says the data isn there yet. he i3 has only been on the market for two
But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,
Jim Motavalli on a carbo bike The author investigates a Belgian Ecopostale van at the International Transport Forum.
She making a documentary called"Less Car More Go, "and both crowdsourcing video for it and raising money through a Kickstarter campaign.
Bike with a wheelbarrow in front You can watch the trailer for"Less Car More Go"here:
Less Car More Go DHL's courier services are mounted often bike in Europe. Photo courtesy of"Less Car More Go")Cargo bikes have reached scale in Europe.
For instance, DHL Netherlands, which does parcel delivery, replaced 33 trucks with cargo bikes, saving 152 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,
we see that it is indeed possible to deliver by cycle. There are already 2, 000 to 3, 000 cargo bikes in London,
Ecopostale is using bike vans to deliver the mail in Belgium (see photo above. UPS is testing pedal-power delivery vans in Germany.
According to Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, a transplanted Bostonian who now works for Europe-based Cyclelogistics, t is boom time for cargo bikes.
and"Less Car More Go"will be her first film as a director. She has modest goals of maybe being able to hire an assistant,
The automaker has made a splash with its vehicle-to-grid technology but now it getting more serious with the Honda Smart Home on the campus of the University of California at Davis
A 9. 5-kilowatt solar array, backed up by a 10-kilowatt-hour lithium battery and a 10-kilowatt DC car charger.
and power a Honda Fit electric car. With direct DC fast charging, the Fit can be back on the road in two hours.
#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.
Try a poop-powered airport shuttle bus. The first of its kind in the United kingdom Bio-Bus is a 40-seat transit vehicle that runs entirely on fuel generated through anaerobic digestion.
That is the conversion of waste n this case both locally sourced food waste and human sewage nto a methane-rich biogas.
if Bio-Bus serviced the number 2 route it runs along the 20-mile-long A4 route
Bio-Bus can travel 186 miles on a full tank of biomethane (or biomethane as they might say across the pond) gas which requires the annual waste of five people to produce according to the operator of the Bristol sewage treatment works GENECO.
A single person annual waste both edible and flushable would fuel the bus for 37 miles.
and food that unfit for human consumption wee able to produce enough biomethane to provide a significant supply of gas to the national gas network that capable of powering almost 8500 homes as well as fuelling the Bio-Bus. Gas-powered vehicles
but the Bio-Bus goes further than that and is powered actually by people living in the local area including quite possibly those on the bus itself.
Roughly 75 million cubic meters of sewage and 35000 metric tons of food waste collected from households along with local grocery stores and food manufacturers is treated annually at Bristol sewage treatment works located in the suburb of Avonmouth.
Bio-Bus which boasts CO2 EMISSIONS that are 30 percent less than buses with conventional diesel engines couldn hit the road at a better time.
if any vehicles in its sightseeing fleet will join the airport shuttle and be converted to run on Bristolian sewage and food scraps o
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
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.
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
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