Crash Proof Your Smartphone with an Airbag
How many times has your toddler thrown your new smartphone on the ground or your smartphone has tumbled down a flight of stairs as it magically leaped out of your pocket? Smartphone owners all over…
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Who’s Going to Pay for Germany’s 9-Year Nuclear Power Phaseout Plan?
As IndustryTap has been documenting, there is no shortage of grand visions for solving the world’s energy problems. The sentiment is widely shared that people and businesses should do whatever it takes to put the…
London Plans to Welcome 2014 with Edible Fireworks
When the clock strikes 12 and the Happy New Year cheers go up, thousands who have gathered on the banks of the Thames to watch the annual fireworks over London will experience something quite different…
US Navy Awards $80.5 Million More Toward the Production of Joint Standoff Weapons
Defense technology company Raytheon has been awarded an additional $80.5 million to a previously awarded contract from the US Navy for the purchase of 200 full rate production Lot 10 AGM-154C-1 Joint Standoff Weapons. Joint…
Epic “404” for Italy’s Messina Straits Bridge and TAV High Speed Rail To France
The top word in English in 2013, “404”, is the universal code for “failure” on the Internet. “Fail” was the number two term in a year where so many things are seemingly wrong … in…
Is Biometric Technology Setting Us Free or Enslaving Us Forever?
The common refrain is that technology isn’t inherently evil, it is the use of it by people with evil intent that makes it so. The “Tile“, for example, can be used so that my son…
Fog Harvester Turns Thin Air into Clear Water
The air in our atmosphere contains water vapor and is around us all the time. We just can’t see it. When this water vapor condenses into tiny liquid water droplets in the air, it forms…
GE’s Next-Gen Jet Engines Use 3D Printed Parts
Earlier this year, IndustryTap looked at “Flower Power” and how GE’s Peebles Orb jet engine testing facility in Ohio was being used to test biofuels in jet engines. Now GE has started testing next-generation jet…
License Plate Scanning Technology Suspended Over Privacy Concerns
Police in Boston have been forced to suspend their car registration scanning technology, which scans drivers’ license plate numbers and feeds the information into a database. The scanning devices can instantly check if a car…
Curiosity Rover Makes a Discovery That Surprises Earthlings
NASA’s Curiosity rover has given scientists the strongest evidence of an ancient, almost freshwater lake on Mars that could have sustained life billions of years ago. This discovery is considered to be great as lakes…
