This Expandable Camper Grows to Three Times Its Size With Just a Push of a Button

Though campers are increasingly becoming popular, their tiny size and limited storage still remain the major downsides of camper travel. The French company Beauer is offering a solution to tiny, cramped quartered camping without having to tow a…

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BRETT Learns Autonomously, Building Human-Like Knowledge, Behavior

Creating Robot Apprentices Researchers at UC Berkeley are teaching robots “deep learning” so that they learn and grow in the same way humans do. Just as children start out at a very basic level and,…

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Timelapse of Massive Aircraft Carrier Being Towed to Rosyth Dockyard

The largest section of Britain’s second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier was recently towed to Rosyth Dockyard from the dock in Glasgow where it was constructed. BAE Systems posted a fascinating time-lapse to YouTube, detailing…

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SHIELD: Securing Integrated Chips to Prevent/Detect Tampering

US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s SHIELD project began earlier this year with multimillion-dollar awards to Northrop Grumman Systems ($12.3 million), SRI International ($6.8 million), and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory ($4.1 million). There are five…

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Replacing the Aging T38: Boeing T-X Aircraft & Simulation System Update

This week at the Air Force Association conference near Washington, DC, Boeing will introduce an early demonstration of its new T-X demonstrator or trainer, jointly designed with Saab. A trainer is a type of simplified…

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London’s New Public Transport to Encompass a 15 MPH Moving Sidewalk?

Forget subways and stationary sidewalks… With technology progressing at a rapid pace, outlandish designs for London’ new public transport include a 15 mph moving sidewalk. Literally, a moving sidewalk similar to what you see in…

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Watch Exuberant POV Skydive Into Packed NASCAR Racetrack

IndustryTap has covered Base Jumping, Free Falling, and the World Air Games, showing the intense experience of falling or dropping from great heights. Last week, skydivers Kevin Reynolds and Matthew Fitch released a point of view (POV) video…

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The Magic Candy Factory 3D Prints Custom Gummy Sweets For Kids

The Magic Candy Factory is a 3D printer that can be operated via an iPad in order to print custom gummy candies. The 3D printer is located in a candy store in Berlin, where kids…

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Quantum Dots to Power Buildings in the Future

Quantum Dots As Energy Sources The University of Milan-Bicocca (UNIMIB) in Italy, and the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamo’s National Laboratory(LANL), led by Victor Klimov at the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP), have…

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See Leaked Toyota Prius 2015 Redesign

The iconic hybrid Toyota Prius, after seven years with no design changes, now has a new look. The new 2015 Toyota Prius has a restyled front end, a newly designed cabin that is slightly bigger,…

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