Apple Gears Up to Challenge Rivals With Its Electric Car

After revolutionizing the mobile phone market with iPhones, Apple Inc. is aiming for a much bigger target – automobiles. Last year, Apple began its foray into automobiles when it unveiled CarPlay. CarPlay linked cars with…

Full Article →

United States to Start Selling Unmanned Strike Aircraft to Allied Countries

Ever since the United States began its unmanned aircraft strikes, numerous nations have inquired about the possibility of getting their hands on similar drones. Well, these countries can rejoice because the U.S. announced yesterday it…

Full Article →

Where Are Small, Cheap Micro-Controllers Taking Us?

The computer I started programming in 1970 was an 8K Datapoint 2200. It wasn’t literally the first computer I programmed (that was an HP 2000 series), but it was the first one I had total…

Full Article →

Master Guitar Maker, Eitan Bartal’s Short Documentary Shows What It Takes to Handcraft Instruments

Eitan Bartal is known as a master Israeli guitar maker. Born in Tel Aviv, he still lives and works there today. As far as his guitar building process, Bartal utilizes his mastery of traditional Spanish…

Full Article →

Butterfly Wing Like Thermosensors Detect Explosives

IndustryTap reported recently on “New Sensors Help Detect, Flush Out Criminals” in which sewers in major cities around the world are being fitted with chemical networks to detect dangerous chemicals that are a signature of…

Full Article →

Gold Nanotubes Can Image and Destroy Cancer Cells Without Any Side Effects

A team of Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered that gold nanotubes have the ability to fight cancer through high-resolution imaging. The tubes can also act as the agents for destroying cancer cells…

Full Article →

Forget Dogs… The Marines Are Testing GuardBot, a Robot Guard Ball!

The Marine Corps is experimenting with a robot guard ball called GuardBot, essentially a big tire body with a dome on each side of its spherical core. GuardBot is being tested for its viability as…

Full Article →

MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab Has Created a Chair That Puts Itself Together in Water… Future of Furniture?

The future of furniture, or at least furniture assembly, may be revolutionized thanks to a new development by researchers at MIT’s self-assembly lab. Basically, Skylar Tibbits and his team of researchers at MIT created a…

Full Article →

Legacy Migration – Detecting Outdated Practices

Users and project managers usually instruct a team migrating an old software product to ‘keep the functionality as close to the original as possible’. The implication of this is ‘translate line by line’. As pointed…

Full Article →

This Redundant Fishing Trawler is Now a Wave Power Plant

All ships are built to withstand stormy seas but eventually end up in a junkyard. But a redundant fishing trawler has been given a fresh lease on life in Norway where it is being used…

Full Article →