FSO Syrena Sports Car Ressurected
The Fabryka Samochodaw Osobowych (FSO) Syrena Sport was inspired by the look of Ferrari models and the Mercedes-Benz 190SL in the late 1950s but never made it into mass production though a handful were produced.…
Author Archives: David Russell Schilling
About David Russell Schilling
David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.
This Building Will Eat Smog And Look Good Doing It
American Architect Richard Meier’s “White Sails” Coated With New Material Italcementi Group, technical sponsor of a new church in Rome commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of Christianity, was asked to come up with a cement that…
Earth Based Laser Telescopes Now Seeing Better Than $1.2 Billion Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was carried into lower earth orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere by the space shuttle in 1990. Hubble has a 7.9 ft (2.4 m) aperture. Hubble’s orbit allows it to observe ultraviolet,…
DNA Is The Next Big Data Storage Technology
Macrocosm of Data Finds New Home Finally a solution to the bailiwick of CIOs everywhere. As data continues to amass current methods of storing it will soon be mothballed. News from Harvard that bacteria in…
Bloomberg Announces 2013 New Energy Pioneers From Around The World
Bloomberg’s sixth annual New Energy Finance Summit in New York City recognizes 10 leading companies out of more than 200 from around the world from energy sectors including bioenergy, energy efficiency, digital energy and solar…
1 Million Square Yard Urban-Suburban Hybrid From BIG
A Lively Urban Landscape Combined With Open Views And Sunshine Danish architect Bjarke Ingels from the firm BIG announced in April 2013 that his company had won an international competition for the design of the…
The Biggest Digging, Moving & Lifting Equipment In The World
Giant Bucket Wheel Excavator The TAKRAF RB293, pictured above is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF. It holds the record for the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history. It is…
World’s Most Feared Submarine, The Russian Typhoon Class Ballistic Missile Submarine
The movie “Hunt For Red October” based on the novel by Tom Clancy, was a fictional hunt for a Russian Typhoon Class submarine. At issue was the “Cold War” intrigue threatening the entire world with…
$540 Million Cable Stay Bridge Is The Longest In North America
Engineers seeking to improve vehicle and truck transportation and protect South Carolina’s multibillion-dollar container trade also had to deal with a history of huge earthquakes, 1886, nearly leveling Charlestown, mega hurricanes like Hugo in 1989,…
Visions of the Los Angeles That Could Have Been
In a recent IndustryTap article “Jobs Market 2045: What Will We Do When Machines Do All The Work?” professor Moshe Vardi notes that humans don’t deliberate enough about new technologies or projects and their long-term…
