Preventing Falls: Technology To Help Elderly Live Better, Longer
In Sonnet 73 Shakespeare wrote of people reaching the end of their lives, using a tree as a metaphor for a human body wracked by old age: That time of year thou mayst in me…
World’s Longest Off Road Vehicle, “Overland Train”, Lost Out To Sikorsky Freight Helicopters In 1962
Lots of people come up with great ideas. But when ideas are not the best or ill timed, they are usually consigned to the dustbin of history. Of course, sometimes the very best ideas lose…
Uncontacted, Indigenous Amazonian Tribes Being Monitored Through Google Earth
There are less than 100 uncontacted, indigenous tribal communities around the world, and the researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of New Mexico have made good use of the Internet to study…
The ‘Butterfly Seat’ Concept Could Take Luxury Flying To a Whole New Level!
Hong Kong-based PaperClipDesign has developed an innovative concept called the “Butterfly Seat”, in an attempt to add transformable seats to passenger airlines. Many airlines are completely redesigning business-class seating for increased flexibility and comfort for…
Rockwell Automation, World’s Largest Company Dedicated To Industrial Automation & Controls, Is On A Mission
(ROK) Market Cap $17.3 Billion Rockwell Automation is the world’s largest company purely focused on automation and controls ranking fourth among the Top 50 Global Automation Vendors behind Siemens, ABB and Emerson Electric and second…
Swiss ABB Makes Strategic Investment In Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
IndustryTap has reported on Vicarious, the artificial intelligence startup being funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other tech titans. The company is considered a technological and scientific leader in its use of…
Scientists Discover Electricity Eating Microbes
Oxidation–reduction (redox) reactions help in generating energy in nearly all life forms. A team of Harvard researchers has discovered that some microbes have an ability to gather energy from electricity. They found that the commonly-found soil bacterium…
Astronauts Aboard International Space Station Create ‘Bubblecam’ With Water & a GoPro
Many viral videos these days are made possible by a GoPro camera but this might be the first time you have seen one in zero gravity. NASA recently published a video featuring three astronauts aboard…
The Deep Space Exploration Plan: Exploring The Cosmic Ocean
Carl Sagan called the galaxies the “cosmic ocean” and it is a fitting metaphor. What could be more exciting, dangerous and challenging at the same time? Not since Columbus gazed across the ocean and had an…
Testing The Sea Level Rise Hypotheses
Interpretations of recent research on Sea Level Rise (SLR) are somewhat sketchy as we are in the beginning of trying to understand factors that affect it. The Science Of Sea Level Rise In Its Infancy…
