and the town would offer a $100 bounty reward for shooters who bring in debris from an unmanned aircraft from the U s. government.
This perfectly illustrates the growing paranoia associated with UAVS (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) often referred to as drones.
and to steer clear of airports and crowds on the ground. But that will change in a couple years.
According to the Association for Unmanned Vehicles International once drones get okayed for the national air space,
Agriculture drones typically come in a fixed wing or quadcopter configuration Today s Ag Industry Drones There are many possible uses for flying drones,
In addition to the obvious skills of aviation and agriculture, they need people skilled in wireless communications, image sensors
1.)Landcaster Hawkeye Mark III from Precisionhawk (precisionhawk. com) Completely autonomous, fixed-wing system, weighing 3 lbs.
and video. 2.)LP960 from Lehmann Aviation (Lehmannaviation. com) The LP960 is able to detect damaged crops by taking aerial images with a thermal camera
and the company claims is easier to fly than fixed-wing UAVS. Cost is $3, 800.4.)
the ipad flight app, camera, charging station, high performance batteries, Wi-fi extender, and a tracking system.
DMZ provides flight training, guidance on effective scouting and technical support. Cost is $2, 900 for the entire system. 6.)The Multirotor by Aerial Precision Ag (aparotor. com) The Multirotor ready to fly kit comes with the system fully assembled,
-use unmanned helicopters began with a request in 1983 from the external branch of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
which was also in charge of agricultural aviation. They wanted an unmanned helicopter for crop dusting that could help reduce labor
and costs in Japan s labor-strapped rice farming industry. Depending on how it s equipped
Most ag drones are easily transportable in a case Final Thoughts A recent study by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) predicts that in a matter of years, the drone,
Laid end to end, that many boxes#ach one containing anything from T-shirts to TVS to truck parts#ould stretch for 50 miles.
and traveled more than 12,500 miles. Circling the world four or five times a year, it can move 1. 4 million tons of cargo annually.
and importance of our modern transportation system. Invisible to most people, they re fundamental to how practically everything in our consumer-driven lives works.
more than 90 percent of the rest#verything from clothes to cars to computers#ow travels inside shipping containers.#
fitting the steel boxes with bladders to transport liquid chemicals or cleaning them and using polypropylene liners to move anything from soy, corn,
Even cars and trucks#nown in the trade as#oeroro,#or#oeroll-on roll off#cargo#re increasingly being loaded into containers rather than specialized ships.#
#says James Rice, deputy director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT.##oea box is a box.
which is owned by German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd. Asked to trace a product through a typical container voyage,
There s the trucker who moves the box to a waiting ship in Xinjiang, the feeder ship that moves it to Singapore to be loaded onto a bigger Europe-bound freighter, the crane operator in Hamburg, customs officials, train engineers, and more.
Yet the container s uniformity smooths each step of the way. Trucks and trains are fitted to haul the identical boxes;
cranes are designed to lift the same thing over and over. The total time in transit for a typical box from a Chinese factory to a customer in Europe might be as little as 35 days.
Cost per shirt?##oeless than one U s. cent,#Horn says.##oeit doesn t matter anymore where you produce something now,
because transport costs aren t important.##Though containers today seem ubiquitous#o much a part of the modern landscape that they re used for cheap housing on the outskirts of Berlin,
#oeso long as cargo was handled one item at a time, with long delays at the docks and complicated interchanges between trucks, trains, planes,
and ships, freight transportation was too unpredictable for manufacturers to take the risk that supplies from faraway places would arrive on time,
An ambitious truck-company owner with little experience when it came to shipping, Mclean#ho had made a fortune in trucking in the boom years after WWII#as looking for a way to move goods up and down the East Coast s traffic-choked highways faster and more cheaply.
His inspired idea: Put truck trailers on ships and bypass the roads altogether. Trucks could roll their trailers onto ships in North carolina;
the trailers would be unloaded in New york and hitched to trucks, then driven the rest of the way to their destinations.
He soon refined the concept even further, doing away with the trailer wheels and axles,
which couldn t be stacked, and settling for just the trailer body. On April 26, 1956, Mclean s first container ship#military-surplus WWII tanker#ailed from Newark to Houston loaded with containers custom-built for his company, Pan-Atlantic.
Around the same time, other companies began introducing their own primitive containers#s much a response to theft and breakage as to inefficiency.
The boxes came in all shapes and sizes from 4. 5-foot-wide steel-framed crates with plywood sides to steel boxes 15 feet long.
Some were designed to be lifted in and out of ship holds using cranes, others with forklifts.
Cranes belonging to Grace Lines couldn t unload containers belonging to Pan-Atlantic. To fulfill their potential,
dozens of players#rom shipping companies to railroads and truck chassis manufacturers#ad to agree on a standard.
Years of debate, overseen by a little-known government agency called the United states Maritime Administration, resulted in a 1961 agreement that only ships built to carry boxes 10,
and bottle it in the U s. On the eastbound voyage, nearly every berth was filled with U s. military cargo destined for the 250,000 American soldiers stationed in West germany.
Mile for mile, transporting a single TEU using a modern container ship produces just a third of the CO2 it would take to move that same container with a truck.
Reliable, cheap transport made possible an explosion in global commerce. That, in turn, had more far-reaching consequences.
on a four-month trip to India we d usually come back two months late and nobody noticed,#says Gerhardt Muller, a retired professor at the U s. Merchant marine Academy and author of Intermodal Freight Transportation, an industry standard.#
#oenow everybody jumps up and down if you re two hours late.##Once shipments became predictable enough to build production
Auto plants in California, accustomed to#oejust in time#deliveries of parts from Japan, found themselves chartering planes to bring in parts they otherwise would have had shipped, at a cost of $600 per car.
When Hurricane Katrina closed ports in and around Louisiana that handle a significant share of America s food imports and exports
And Hurricane Sandy closed terminals in Newark and New york for days, forcing shippers to route their cargo to ports elsewhere on the East Coast.
Instead of shouting longshoremen, beeping trucks, honking horns, and growling engines, there s just the faint sound of gentle waves against the hulls of the ships
and shift container after container onto curious, truncated trucks. Seemingly nothing but wheels and chassis, the trucks are missing a key element:
drivers. It turns out Altenwerder is one of the world s few automated port facilities.
Underneath the terminal s blacktop, a grid of 19,000 sensors help guide driverless robot trucks#GVS,
or#oeautomated Guided Vehicles##long routes selected for maximum efficiency. The trucks are programmed to move containers from the shipside cranes to another set of cranes,
which stack them according to when they re scheduled to be picked up by trucks or loaded onto trains.#
#oeit s all done by software, #says Karl Olaf Petters, a spokesman for Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the company that runs Altenwerder and most of Hamburg s other cargo terminals.
Ports and shipping companies are working to squeeze still more efficiencies out of an already mature system.
Beginning last year,#oedual-cycle#algorithms help Altenwerder s cranes and AGVS load and unload ships simultaneously,
So the next time a truck towing a metal box edges alongside you on the freeway,
Unicycle basketball, because playing the game was way too easy the other way!..The Beatles#oerubber Soul#vinyl albums being packaged.
Seen recently on the German Autobahn!..Which building is in front? Whichever one you guessed, you re wrong!..
Last week, freelance journalist Virginia Hughes wrote about a scientific paper that was published in the elite journal Nature in 1995.
Virginia Hughes: Some readers were angry with my post, arguing, for example, that#oescience s self-correcting paradigm works over decades#.
or any RNA, could survive this trip from the mouth, with all these enzymes in saliva, down into the stomach, with the acidic environment there,
NASA. 30.)) The Great wall of china isn t the only man-made structure visible from space. Depending on your definition of space,
NASA. 31.)) There is no such thing as someone having a#oephotographic#memory#only very good memories.
If you show the child a movie of an astronaut floating in space while you re saying the word#oeweightless,
Some of it may even be used down the road to raise fish or shrimp.##The project greenhouse is fed with CO2 from a nearby fertilizer plant,
I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research
aircraft in 2007 over the Harris Fire in San diego County in Southern California. That same technology could be adjusted to detect forest fires at a very early stage.
This image was taken with a thermal camera mounted to a helicopter. Bluesky is a UK company specializing in aerial imaging.
high altitude aircraft, low attitude drones, or some combination of these, monitoring hotspots and instantly determining the danger level is well within our grasp.
Every kind of tree will likely require a different navigation strategy, and some densely covered grounds may be entirely unreachable until it s too late.
But so does a full-frontal attack on a fire by smokejumpers, bucket-bearing helicopters,
and slow lumbering slurry bombers that each dumped more than 2, 000 gallons of red chemical fire retardant on a formerly pristine mountainside.
and will be car-free. Mankind is rethinking how we build the structures we live and work in which is changing the way our cities look and feel.
new clothing by Amsterdam couture designer Iris Van Herpenelevates beyond the surface of the body and extends into surrounding space,
is marketed increasingly to tourists. It s no surprise really, considering the surge of tourists to this part of the world.
And the fact that between 150-200 species of insects are consumed in Southeast asia. The most delicious insects?
and hops readily contain#oeinsect fragments##eads, thoraxes, and legs#nd even whole insects. I won t tell you about the rat hair limits#)Fig paste can harbor up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams;
Many of those trips were made so I could understand from the ground up the new forces at work in rural Africa and in farming and agribusiness in the region.
these#oeperi-urban#farmers PDF typically bring their goods to market by taxi or motorcycle, striking deals in advance by text message.
and transport costs are low, leaving her enough profit to consider leasing more land in the future.
when he traveled in the Congo, attempting to foment rebellion: Almost every African family he met owned a plot of farmland#radically different situation than in Latin america,
and send it to Nairobi s airport in a single day. And because farmers still control
Transport links are terrible; where proper roads do exist, you ll often see police roadblocks capriciously set up to extract bribes from drivers.
Rather than support their own producers, many African governments ease the importation of foreign-grown food.
In Ghana, for instance, canned tomato paste from Italy, frozen chickens from Brazil, and rice from Thailand can be sold below cost, killing local production.
that signals travel the opposite way as well.##oetime and time again, we hear from patients that they never felt depressed
I ll have this baby flying in no time!..Intimidation and determination, two characteristics that are about to be put to the test!..
The Tribine takes it one step further as it combines the two historic harvest functions with a third the grain cart, according to Ben Dillon, the developer of the machine.
ranging from saving the diesel fuel required to chase the grain cart around the field to the labor aspect of eliminating the person needed to run the grain cart.
However, using a regular combine leaves additional random tracks across the field as the grain cart makes trips from the combine to the semi at an end of the field.
but Dillon has said that he expects it will cost less than the combined cost of a conventional combine and a grain cart.
#That s good news for those that have turned already to cloning to create a small pack ofsuper sniffing inspector dogs at airports,
Potty train. Transition from whole milk to low-fat milk. Speaking from experience, only one of these things was easy.
The guidance is based on studies that found children who consumed low-fat milk as part of a reduced-saturated-fat diet had lower concentrations of LDL cholesterol.
2 percent or skim milk is probably not a major driver when it comes to childhood weight problems.
but we also want to drive that dazzling car, go on that dream vacation, or get those gorgeous shoes.
At a scientific conference, she struck up a friendship with Jennifer Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley.
And the road from lab experiment to treatment is a long one. Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.
the Wright Brother s first flight only lasted 12 seconds. Perhaps the most controversial comment made by Brand during his talk was#
because we are still going to need conventional fencing along airport runways, interstates, railroad right-of-ways, and so on.#
For example, if you fly into Albuquerque or El paso airports, you will come in quite low over rangeland.
you could be driving your property in your air-conditioned truck and you notice a spot that received rain in the recent past and that has a flush of highly nutritious plants that would
Currently we have a very active program here on the Jornada Experimental Rangein landscape ecology using unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance.
because I don t want to be associated with the train wreck #I mean a major train wreck#that could happen through using this technology.
If you can be sitting in your office in Washington D c . and you program cows to move on your ranch in Montana,
What our team did initially was cannibalize a kids remote control car to send a signal to the device worn by the animal.
if that was next to a road, even if it cost $163, 000 for those two-and-a half miles of fence,
I want a barbed wire fence between Ted Turner s ranch and our experimental ranch up the road here.
while they are waiting in public spaces (at bus stations and buses), the library has managed to stretch its resources even
Bookbike##oeusing a specially-designed three-wheeled bicycle, library staff, Pima County Bike Ambassadors and volunteers ride throughout our community to visit people
and ride in the motorcycle sidecar with Hagrid. Attendance now nears 3, 000 people.##Library Nurse Program Mangamania!!#
and publishing center (Sacramento Public library, Sacramento, CA) Wine tasting fundraiser Wine & Words (Huntington Beach Public library, Huntington Beach, CA) Food trucks and international food
##Dodge City Public library Kentucky Campbell County Public library: Lego club Teens writing a manga book online Class on making medieval weapons from office supplies Sit down aerobics for seniors#oecrafters Who Care##Needlework lovers meet to knit
photographing dioramas, antique dollhouse furniture displays, historic doll history/display, miniature war machines, trains, etc.
Jackson George Regional Library System) Car seat Rental-partnership with Citizens Against Needless Death in Youth CANDY.
Super bowl 101#Partnership with school coaches to bring football education and sports appreciation and to local community just in time for the Super bowl.
as they fall on cars, houses, and people. In the long term, their disappearance means parks and neighborhoods,
trees remove nitrogen dioxide to an extent equivalent to taking 274,000 cars off the traffic-packed beltway, saving an estimated $51 million in annual pollution-related health care costs.
#oeinefficient harvesting, inadequately engineered local transport systems and deficiencies in infrastructure mean that crops are handled frequently poorly
and substantial amounts of foodstuffs simply spill from badly maintained vehicles or are bruised as vehicles negotiate poorly maintained roads.#
#Southeast asia loses an estimated 37%to 80%of its rice crop, depending on the country. China s losses are about 45%,for example,
and getting governments#oeto incorporate waste minimisation thinking#into transport and storage infrastructure. All of which makes sense.
The project represents a breakthrough in the field of micro-aerial vehicles. It had previously been impossible to pack all the things needed to make a robot fly onto such a small structure and keep it lightweight.
Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?
and all the other things necessary for autonomous flight. BI: Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.
Frey said those big changes include driverless vehicle for farming. He predicts that by 2030 we can expect to see the average farmer owning#1. More than 1 drone 2. Driverless tractors, trucks,
combines 3. Printed buildings (3d printing) 4. Packages delivered by drones 5. Farmers growing legal marijuana 6. Using vertical greenhouses for specialty crops above
Sure we have heard all of connected cars, wearable devices, and appliances with sensors, but what has not been marketed enough is the real business value that thesethings create.
For example, as a frequent traveler I spend a lot of time in hotels. When I check in I always find the room freezing cold with the temperature set in the mid-60s.
I think about all of the vacant rooms in all of the hotels across the world that are wasting electricity by excessively cooling rooms that nobody is in.
The electrical bills for these hotels must be astounding. In addition, it annoys me as a customer to spend my first hour in a hotel room freezing my butt off.
As a loyal Marriott customer I already have a profile set up with my preferences such as nonsmoking.
When I land at the airport, Marriott detects that I have arrived in town through the Marriott iphone app with location aware technology.
and enter my arrival time, thus saving me from the line at the front desk. The connected systems are now aware that
I want and the hotel has saved money on electricity by not cooling the room to arctic levels.
Now multiply the number of rooms by the number of hotels and the amount of energy saved is astronomical.
or prefer not to travel to the doctor s office as often as they should. This poses a problem as people with life threatening diseases need to be monitored frequently.
TRANSPORTATION Iot devices and processes that allow us to move goods and people more efficiently will save millions of dollars
By now we have heard all about GE s smart jet engines that transmit over one terabyte of sensor data per flight.
the airline already knows if any maintenance is required and can expedite the process, saving time and money while decreasing the risk of engine issues in flight.
Connected cars is another hot topic. Again, many people see this as a luxury but when you connect smart cars to smart cities you can start to see the value.
Big cities tend to have many traffic bottlenecks. Long commutes impact the quality of life and can have a negative impact on commerce.
Some cities are embedding sensors in parking lots so that commuters with an app on their phone can be notified of where an available parking space is,
allowing drivers to save time and create more efficient roadways. These smart cities are utilizing sensors to save money
and optimize processes in many ways. Here are just a few: -Smart Lighting optimize use of street
and analyzing traffic patterns to reroute drivers-Waste management optimizing waste pickup by measuring container levels-Security & emergency detection detecting radiation, gases,
have your car schedule an oil change, or have your refrigerator order your milk. Once the general public starts getting exposure to use cases like the ones
10,000 tiny flying swarmbots perform flawlessly together? 7. Cure for Aging Life expectancy is getting longer,
8. Driverless cars How long will it be before we see the first highway in the U s. to be designated as adriverless-cars only highway?
Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
Ultra High Speed Transportation system Today s high speed trains max out around 300 mph. However, vacuum tube transportation systems,
like the one being proposed by ET3, have the potential to exceed 4, 000 mph. Once implemented, how will a technology like this affect the airline industry?
27. Genetically Engineered Athletes will engineered genetically designer babies, often referred to as super-babies, grow up to become superhumans?
How long before this same technology can be used to 3d print much larger items such as ships, stadiums, aircraft,
Who are some of todays best-known celebrities that would likely show up as downloadable personalities for your computer, car, or robot?
Invisible fences, invisible screens, invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. What kind of market will there be for invisible netting like this?
and I became a hazard to myself, other pedestrians, and drivers. I want the world.
I somehow tweets and snapchats as a vehicle for validation and self worth So even those activities felt like chores.
Let s take another trip down memory lane, the year: 1992. You call your buddy from the landline
you get lost in the activity of adding those tinkling gadgets to your bike spokes for almost an hour.
and hear about how they ambushed the neighbor girls with water balloons. You missed it.
What used to be a thrilling experience (like riding the subway for the first time) is now mundane.
Never Uber/Lyft/Sidecar if your destination is<1mile. If weather and conditions permit, you can walk.
if you get to your destination without taking a picture. 20 points if you can walk without music.
#Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars Solar Forest We aren t out of the woods yet
when it comes to providing a steady supply of clean energy for electric vehicles. So, designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees.
while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge. Each of the trees in Neville Mars s solar forest is composed of a set of photovoltaic leaves mounted on an elegantly branching poll.
The solar forest is certainly an aesthetic step up from your standard sunbaked concrete parking lot, and serves as great inspiration for integrating solar technology with natural forms.
#Nasa tests growing lettuce in space A plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.
NASA scientists believe they may have found a solution to how to grow vegetables in space.
It could bring an end to astronauts on the space station subsisting largely on a diet of prepackaged dehydrated food.
If shoots emerged there was no sun. In short the space station is a gardener s nightmare. The solution appears to be aveggie flight pillow a tailored environment
which should make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food. We call it Veggie,
said Gioia Massa of the Kennedy space center. It s a plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.
which went up to the International Space station last month. The idea is simple. The veggie pillows are bags of space dirt with slow-release fertiliser.
But astronauts will not be allowed to savour the first crop, Dr Massa explained. First, we have to bring the lettuce home for analysis. Is it safe to eat?
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
Jessica Duggan grew up in this starchy historic city in the 1990#s. She remembers field trips with her mother to the historic Battery neighborhood,
A booming tech start-up economy and a thriving arts and restaurant scene have helped this old Civil war tourist magnet do something that places across the USA have been trying to do for decades:
At the gas station on the way home, you can fill your growler with craft-brewed beer. This is a new kind of city
and Alexandria, Va.,places designed before automobiles arrived. Several of the most popular cities have become an important part of New Urbanism,
which models development around mixed-use development and pedestrian-friendly spaces. These places seem to be built for people
not for automobiles, says University of Nevada-Las vegas demographer Robert Lang. And the 20-somethings love the people, not the automobile.
Using recent U s. Census data, USA TODAY has identified 289 cities that have more 20-somethings than teens in the case of Charleston and about a dozen other cities, it s 2-to-1 or higher.
859 164 Costa Mesa, Calif. 110,322 160 Denton, Texas 115,098 160 Killeen, Texas 127,995 160 Lincoln, Neb. 259,218 156 Lubbock
Boeing is expanding rapidly. The aerospace giant now assembles 787 Dreamliners at a rate of three a month at a massive facility adjacent to the Charleston airport,
and over the next three years it plans to hire about 600 more information technology employees, bringing its total number of workers in the region to about 8, 000.
land use and transit to create a city that allows residents tolive, work and play in the same space,
Now he gets so much business most nights he s got to lease 85 parking spaces from The (Charleston) Post and Courier across the street.
a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.
One floor of their campus has been remodeled as asocial work space that resembles an open-floor loft or a high-end hotel lobby.
in the middle of one workspace, a gleaming red Ducati 1199 Panigale motorcycle. Speaking of design, Charleston may bethe single most important city of inspiration to the New Urbanists who have pushed to redesign cities around more densely populated,
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