Poisoned Airport Cost $35 Million to Clean Up
With 30 million passengers traveling through Hong Kong’s 50 year old and crumbling Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong had a big problem. They needed a new airport but land in Hong Kong was scarce. The…
Engineering
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…
$24,000 Transform Robot goes from car to humanoid
We’ve seen transforming robots before, and I’m not talking about anything related to Hasbro. Researchers from MIT are among many engineers and tinkerers trying to design robots that perform different functions by changing their shape or appearance. Japan-based Brave Robotics has…
R10 Quadroter Affordable Micro Air Vehicles (MAV)
R10 is a quadrotor/micro air vehicle, radically designed from the ground up to be extremely easy to build, modify, and fly. Affordable Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) will revolutionize activities and tasks ranging from sports photography…
Japan building a “mega solar” power and wind energy plant
In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant in 2011, arguably the worst nuclear power accident in history, the Japanese government has decided to phase out nuclear power…
HotTug: Hot Tub on the Go
The HotTug is a design by Supergoed: as simple as it is ingenious. Supergoed is owned by Frank de Bruijn, who works on a barge in the port of Rotterdam. Frank has a soft spot…
Mechanical Engineers Create Magic Beans
Dave and Dave grew up together in Pennington, New Jersey where they spent our time inventing, designing and fabricating everything from kite buggies and robots to chainsaw-powered scooters and grind rails. After entering the workforce…
DIY Desktop CNC Machine
A modular, inexpensive, versatile desktop-scale CNC machine to put computer-automated machining and fabrication in the hands of creators. Whether they be hobbyists or evil scientists, small-scale manufacturers or budding inventors, the power to go from…
