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SeaOrbiter Construction Slated for 2014

15/11/2013 09:05
Once dubbed a pipe dream, a massive oceanic research vessel designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, is set to begin construction sometime during 2014. Standing 51 meter (170ft) tall Sea Orbiter is a partially submerged oceanic research vessel that will help uncover the mysteries of our...

Repurposing the Energy from Hazardous Exhaust

15/11/2013 09:04
In general, all of these fumes are exhausted (and sometimes filtered) into the atmosphere. As such, none of the air is recirculated in the general HVAC system, and the system needs to bring in fresh air from outside to make up for the imbalance. Conditioning un-tempered air can be very costly...

By Air, Land & Sea: Sandia’s Multi-Terrain Drone Concept

15/11/2013 09:02
 Named the "Multi-Modal Vehicle Concept" (MMVC,) the matryoshka-esque drone would begin its life as a UAV. Taking off from a friendly location, the drone would spend the majority of its life in its flying configuration. Once the drone had nearly reached its target, it would jettison...

MCU Development Kits & Plug-In Modules

15/11/2013 09:00
It is an exciting time in the microcontroller arena with Texas Instrument's (TI's) introduction of the low-cost LaunchPad series of MCU boards. Each of TI's product lines of microcontrollers has a LaunchPad to help you design, develop and evaluate – from MSP430™, C2000™, Tiva™ C Series...

HyRef Helps Put Renewable Energy on the Grid

15/11/2013 08:59
In order for renewable sources to generate a significant part of our energy base-load, they need to be predictable. At any given location, it’s difficult to know how much sunshine to expect or how much wind will be blowing on a particular day, and without that information we can’t predict how much...

Add a Touch Interface to your Hardware with Touch Board

15/11/2013 08:57
Want to create an interactive design with touch interface? Well, the Touch Board may be just what you are looking for. Arduino compatible, the Touch Board comes with 12 capacitive touch channels and will respond to anything conductive that is connected to one of the channels. You can turn on a...

Cheap Ink-Jet Printed Circuitry

15/11/2013 08:56
Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a new technique that’ll allow nearly anyone to create circuitry using a desktop printer. The project, which was initially a in the hands of the University of Tokyo and with Microsoft Research, uses a desktop printer to laydown conductive circuit wiring on...

The First Aliens We Discover May Be Purple

15/11/2013 08:53
In our quest to discover strange new life on strange new worlds, a group of astronomers has modeled potential alien worlds using Earth’s biological history as a framework. From this they have determined that if we are to detect extraterrestrial biology, we should fine-tune our search to the...

The Most Extreme Weather In the Solar System

13/11/2013 14:29
“Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars…”  Spoiler alert: the weather Earth is far nicer than on any other planet in our solar system. Sure, you might have to carry an umbrella sometimes and the bottoms of your pants get all wet, and...

UK's role in world's largest radio telescope revealed

13/11/2013 09:19
    The UK is to design a computer system that can handle data over 60 times faster than the entire internet for the world’s largest radio telescope.   British engineers will also design the systems to control and connect the quarter of a million of antennas spread...
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