World’s Longest Wind Turbine Blade by Siemens
Siemens has produced the first batch of its new 75 meter long B75 rotor blades. They will be installed on the second prototype of Siemens’ 6-MW offshore wind turbine, which will be erected in the…
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Fascinating Ice Vehicle for Extreme Conditions
Land-based crossings of the whole Antarctic continent have only been achieved twice. Both expeditions took many months because of the terrain and the type of vehicles used. The Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition will use three…
Full Size Keyboard in a Magic Box
The Celluon Magic Cube is a revolutionary new device that allows you to use a keyboard in total darkness. Available for the Iphone, Ipad, Smartphone, PDA, Mac & Tablet PC, and pretty much any device…
Sony Smart Watch works like a Mini PC
We are getting extremely close to having a fully functioning wrist PC. While many people are using smart phones today as they would a PC, it cannot always be convenient to constantly be pulling out…
Stunning 3D-Printed Guitars Will Blow You Away
We’ve seen some incredible 3D-printed designs on the market, but these printed Spider and Scarab electric guitars have officially blown us away. Olaf Diegel — a professor of mechatronics at Massey University’s School of Engineering…
Look Inside a Futuristic Nanotech Lab
Physicist Richard Feynman famously said that there’s plenty of room at the bottom. Room to build complex structures, machines, and computing engines at the size of individual molecules and even atoms. Nowhere is this more evident than…
The Largest Ever 3D Printed Wrench!
It’s only natural that following the huge global interest in 3D printed wrenches, that I’d immediately print the largest wrench we’ve ever made using the new Objet1000 wide format 3D printer that we released at last week’s Euromold. As…
Boeing Converting Commercial Aircrafts to Freight
Boeing has announced the conversion of three commercial planes into freighters, in an agreement with aviation asset management firm Guggenheim Aviation Partners. Three Boeing 767-300ER aircraft will be re-engineered to serve the use of long…
This is the best R/C Batmobile ever
Meet Paul. He’s a 29-year old Polish man, and ever since 2005, his life has been tied up in one thing. Building a Lego Batmobile. Well, he’s probably done other things too, like eat, and sleep,…
Returning Industry to the City
The Protofactory positions a return of industry to the city, fostering a culture of materialism where the flow of material, production of knowledge and the experience ofcraftsmanship are offered to society. The Protofactory redefines the factory typology. Based on a…
