Momentum burger-bot
Momentum Machines is cooking up burgers with a robot and they’re serious about fast food productivity. “Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient,” cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas has said. “It’s meant to completely obviate them.”
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3D model of FAST
Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory has the world’s largest radio telescope but not for long. China has broken ground on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a massive bowl-shaped radio signal collector that will be the world’s most sensitive when it opens for business in 2016.
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The Navy is hoping that their newest 10 megajoule railgun (topping their old pathetic 9 megajoule) will replace the standard 5-inch guns on most of their ships. Projectiles fired at this energy level reach about 5,600 mph, but the Navy isn’t stopping there. They have their eyes set on a 64 megajoule system capable of shooting at over 13,000 mph and hitting 5 meter targets from 200 nautical miles. Videos after the jump.
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The final projects of the Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design), developed in partnership with BMW with the goal of creating a car for 2015 interpreting the language evolution and the brand’s philosophy.
Continue reading… “2015 BMW Concept Design”
There are 54 million garages for the 247 million registered cars in the US, meaning that the majority of cars are parked overnight in parking structures, parking lots or curbside. As a result, most potential plug-in vehicle consumers do not have an adequate place to charge their vehicles. This problem is even more pronounced in urban areas like San Francisco, where only about 16% of cars are parked in garages overnight and the rest end up curbside or in parking lots.
Continue reading… “Smart Grids, Fast Charging – Infrastructure for Electric Cars”
The idea is as wondrous as it is audacious: Get on a train at New York City’s Penn Station and hit Paris, London or Brussels just an hour later. “From an engineering point of view there are no serious stumbling blocks,” says Ernst Frankel, retired professor of ocean engineering at MIT.
Continue reading… “Trans-Atlantic Supersonic Maglev Vacuum Tube Train”
Suddenly your $40-$50 bill to fill up gas every other week won’t look so bad once you take the wheel of the North American Eagle, a 42,500bhp jet car with everything it takes to smash the land speed record. (pics)
Continue reading… “The 800mph Jet Car”
Online banking is now widespread in the US and UK, according to a survey conducted by Gartner during June, July and August 2007.
The study found that 71 million US adults and 14 million UK adults regularly use Web banking services.
Continue reading… “Online Banking Growing Fast”
