USA Top Oil Producer by 2016
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s top oil producer by 2016. What’s more Canada is believed to have more natural resources than…
Global Fire Power (GFP) Measuring Military Capabilities by Country
A measurement called “GFP or “Global Fire Power” measures and compares the relative strength of a country’s overall military capability (excluding nuclear capability). The top ten in order of size are: US, Russia, China, India,…
3D Desktop Printing, Endless Possibilities
Imagine what you will replicate when you get your first 3D printer! A new beak for your bird? An engagement ring for your fiancée? Prosthetics for a loved one that can be enlarged as they…
Pushing the Boundaries of Hypersonic Travel
The Boeing X-51 also known as WaveRider is a “scramjet” or a supersonic combustion “ramjet” in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. In a ramjet, the most basic type of jet engine, air is…
Aspid GT-21 Invictus, Pure Cutting Edge Design
Spanish automaker IFR Automotive S.L., founded in 2003 by Ignacio Fernandex Rodriguez, is based in Catalonia and its latest offering, Aspid GT-21 Invictus is named after a viper species native to the region. The Aspid…
“Man Portable” Flying Microbots
What starts out as a new technology that can be applied as a top secret military weapon often makes its way to the mass marketplace as a scaled down, innocuous version of its former self. …
Building Advanced Humanoid Robots
In 1956 the term “artificial intelligence”, or AI, was coined by American computer and cognitive scientist John McCarthy and was based on the simple idea that human thoughts and actions could be standardized, mechanized and…
Smart Guns: Biometric Grip Pattern Recognition
There is a growing interest in the use of personalized applications that use biometrics as an access key. Providing access to homes, cars, companies, safes, and even guns can now be controlled by limiting access…
Self Sufficient Sea City of the Future
Currently approximately 71% of the earth’s surface is ocean and if global warming projections are accurate, and so far they have been, more of the earth’s surface will be submerged. With the threat of rising…
Next Generation Construct Platform, Makeblock
Makeblock has just made creativity even simpler. The extrusion based construct platform allows for creative designs of machines, robots and artware, and anything else in between. Using mostly aluminium, Makeblock’s key is its simplicity, requiring…
