Delivery Drones: Amazon “Octocopters” Flying Packages To Your Doorstep

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has done it again. As early as 2015, Amazon Prime Air could be available to the public, specializing in package-delivering drones called “ocotocopters”. What Is An Octocopter? An octocopter is a…

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Technology Outsmarts Mother Nature’s Fiery Fury

Climate change has altered weather patterns around the world. According to researchers, as the greenhouse gases warm the earth, we can expect more wildfires across the globe in the near future. Every year, forest fires…

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Safer, Smaller Helium-Cooled Nuclear Reactors at Half the Price?

Last December, IndustryTap wrote “Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years,” in which young MIT engineers started a company using modernized nuclear reactor designs developed in the 1950’s. The company, Transatomic Power, with…

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Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now

Last June, we touched on the construction of Sky City in Changsha, China, a towering structure that will peak at 838 meters high. Nearing its completion, the engineers and architects are already hailing it a…

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4G-Loaded Smart Trench Coat Tells You When It’s Raining

Progress in technical fields has been enormous and we’ve come to rely on it in our day-to-day lives, so much so that we apparently need technology to tell us it’s raining outside. Techies have developed…

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Philadelphia Pulls the Trigger to Become First City to Ban 3D Printed Guns

Philadelphia has voted unanimously to ban the production of firearms using 3D printers, becoming the first U.S. city to make printing any firearm or “any piece thereof” illegal. Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, author of the legislation,…

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How a Data-Driven Approach Will Improve Urban Design and Livability

The trend toward “extreme urbanization” across the world means that soon 90% of global population growth, 80% of wealth creation and 60% of energy consumption will happen in large cities. In China, for example, 300…

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Boeing Banks $100 Billion in Orders for World’s First Folding Wings Commercial Airplane

Boeing has revealed plans for new energy efficient jet planes, the 777X with foldable wings. The new wings are longer than the traditional 777 planes, which Boeing is crediting for its fuel efficiency, but longer…

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Today’s 3D Printing Technology Revolutionizing Industry and Home

According to Jason Lopes, lead engineer for Legacy Effects which does character design, creature design, suits, props, animatronics and collectibles, the 3D printing revolution is changing his company’s business dramatically. Legacy Effects’ typical large project,…

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Universal High-Tech Card Controls All of Your Credit and Debit Cards

Forget the stack of credit and debit cards that have been taking up all the space in your wallet. There is a new high-tech mega-card, or should we say “the real master card”, that works…

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