The Falkirk Wheel, Uniquely Scottish
Scotland is a land that has been linked to a mystical past. Druids, Nessie and men in skirts – you never know what they’ll do next. Scotland also gave us Sean Connery, the best James…
Transparent Torture, The Walk of Faith and Seriously Scary!
Acrophobia is the fear of heights. We certainly hope you don’t have it. If so, a trip to the Zhangjiajie and Tianmen mountains in China’s Tianmen Mountain National Park may not be advised. However, if…
UK’s $8.3 Billion Aircraft Carrier: Precision Engineering Re-energizing Economy
HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of Europe’s largest and most interesting manufacturing projects, has a price tag of $8.3 billion and is about 50% complete. When it is christened in 2017 the carrier will be as…
Concept eCycle: Aesthetics, Ergonomics and Efficiency
According to automotive and industrial designer Milos Jovanovic, a native of Serbia and winner of a “Sitting Green” award in design by Belgrade Design Week, the eCycle concept springs from the notion that existing electronic…
$2.3 Million Bugatti GSV is the Fastest Production Car in the World
Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S., a 100-year-old French carmaker, now a subsidiary of Volkswagen, designs, engineers and manufactures a line of high-performance luxury automobiles. Bugatti is famous for pushing the boundaries of design and what is technically…
Ultra-thin Laptops Possible with GE Cooling Innovation
Electronics cooling technology so quiet, users won’t even know the laptop is running. Adapted from technology that GE researchers originally developed for commercial jet engines, GE (NYSE: GE) has announced a major technology breakthrough, called…
Cleaner and Meaner ATVs
Supercar, futuristic, luxury kidde, amphibious, tank-like, urbanized, hipster, and self inflating: these are just a few of the ATV (All-Terrain Vehicles) styles available these days. A small but growing number of ATV manufacturers have begun…
High Speed Rail (HSR): 220 MPH and 17,000 Miles of Track
One of the darlings of the industrial revolution, the railroad, helped move people and goods cheaply over long distances. But railroads have morphed into a super high technology where moving people at high rates of…
New Norway Sky Bridge, Longer than Golden Gate Bridge
Norway Sky Bridge or The Hardanger Bridge? This Hardanger Bridge has been given a new name by the hordes of Internet comments calling it the Norway Sky Bridge. The new name was born after seeing…
Tires Turn Orange When Worn
The average tire lasts for 20,000 kilometers before it needs to be changed but let’s be honest, not every driver is keeping a precise count of the kilometers they’ve traveled since they last changed their car’s tires The Discolor Tyre addresses this issue with…
