The Origins of Flight with winged robots
Here’s what we know about the evolution of flight: By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying — or perhaps just gliding — dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to the ancestor of modern birds. What we don’t know is what primitive wings were used for before bird ancestors could fly.
Mysterious flash in the night sky
Get these every couple of weeks on the allsky. What could they be? “They are not iridium flares because they are stationary,” said James Beauchamp, an amateur astronomer who hosts the meteor camera for Sandia National Labs and New Mexico State University. They are not geosynchronous because the az/el are too far North.
OmniTouch projection interface
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute, together with Microsoft have developed a new system called the OmniTouch which has been designed to transform any surface into a touchscreen device.
Passing Cloud concept
The ‘passing cloud‘ concept by Portuguese-born, New York -based architect tiago barros rethinks the nature of travel, envisioning a public transport vehicle that lacks a particular destination, returning a level of importance to the act of traveling itself.
Audi e-tron Spyder
The Audi e-tron Spyder is a mean machine that has a carbon composite exterior, airflow vents in its hood, tapering windows and a clean 2-seater interior.
Galileo – Europe leads the way in GPS
A 3D presentation of the Galileo satellite navigation system, a joint development by the European Union and European Space Agency. This constellation of satellites will allow users to pinpoint their location anywhere on Earth — their launches commencing on 20 October 2011.
NASA to charter a flight from Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is generally known as a space tourism company. But now it sees research experiments as a future mission segment and significant business opportunity. The company has signed a contract with NASA to provide up to three charter flights on its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
Search for Aliens with Extremely Large Telescope
A new architectural concept drawing of ESO’s planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) shows the telescope at work, with its dome open and its record-setting 40-metre-class primary mirror pointed to the sky.
German Trains will run on Renewable Energy by 2050
Germany already runs on 20% renewable energy. Now Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway operator, has announced plans to run all of its trains on 100%renewable energy by the year 2050.
IndyCar Parade on Las Vegas Strip (video)
Driver of the #10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara Honda, Dario Franchitti of Scotland, drives a parade lap down the Las Vegas Boulevard Strip as a preview to the IndyCar World Series Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photographer Jonathan Ferrey
