Japanese Floating Train Magnetically Levitates to 311 MPH

Japanese engineers have undertaken a bold new initiative to introduce ‘floating’ trains, in a bid to make rail transport in Japan even more efficient. While the project remains in its infancy, requiring a colossal amount…

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Electromagnetic Harvester. Charging Batteries from Thin Air

Capacitive electromagnetic fields are created by a simple current flow in devices like photocopiers, printers, coffee makers, wireless devices , and electric substations.  Most of these activities involve the transfer of information as their primary…

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Jet Engine Blows Photographers To The Ground On Take Off

Sometimes it’s easy to underestimate the power of some aircraft. Unfortunately, this has been learned the hard way down through the years, one of the most infamous being the RIAT air show at RAF Cottesmore…

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Move Over Trucks! Here Comes Aerocraft The Heavy Lifting Blimp

The aircraft manufacturer Aeros has unveiled the first stages of a staggering new development in aviation, the ‘blimp-like’ Aeroscraft. To use its full, technical name, it is a Rigid Variable Buoyancy Air Vehicle. The first…

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Could “Test Tube Meat” End World Hunger?

Scientists and engineers are beginning to grow meat in laboratories, not artificial meat, but meat that is indistinguishable from animal meat but without the animal. In vitro means “in a test tube” or a culture…

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The Twisted One – CityLife Milano, Milan, Italy

A ‘twisted’ tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is currently under construction as part of a project which will dramatically alter the skyline of Milan, Italy. Forming part of the CityLife Milano masterplan, and…

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Robert Langer Profile. Engineering Synthetic Skin

I sat down with Dr. Robert Langer and a small group of journalists at MIT this week to discuss his lifetime work which includes 810 patents issued or pending, 24 companies that have received over…

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Wind Turbines Snap in Half and Catch Fire – Dangers of Wind Turbines

There were roughly 225,000 wind turbines globally at the end of 2012 with a combined output of about 230,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity.  With a 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), and rising spending expected…

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Pack Your Bags, Biosphere 2 Laboratory a Step to Colonizing Mars

The estimated time for astronauts to travel 34 million miles from Earth to Mars is 6 to 8 months depending on the relative position of the two planets at the time of launch: Mars and…

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Mind-Controlled Wheelchairs Going Farther Than Ever Before

The innovations we are seeing across the board in product design and development are leaving no stone unturned: wheelchairs are no exception. Researchers have developed a brain-powered chair, illuminated wheels, hubless wheels, wheelchairs that move…

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