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The crowd at East Grinstead makes for an odd sight — most of them are wearing plastic goggles with long antennas sticking up, apparently ignoring their surroundings and staring out into empty space. Despite this, they react like a crowd at a football match, letting out oohs and aahs in unison, responding to some unseen action. Suddenly, a small drone skitters out of the trees on their right, crashing through the brushes before landing in a spray of dirt and leaves. There’s a cheer from the bego…

The Department of Transport has partnered with car manufacturers to develop the technology. Can you imagine breathing into your car's steering wheel to prove you're sober enough to drive? It sounds far-fetched, but it's a technology that the US Department of Transport (DOT) is seriously investigating as a solution to drunk driving. Last week, it unveiled its latest research into two types of in-car alcohol sensors: the first is a breathalyzer housed in the steering wheel, and the second is an i…

Former Apple engineers have built a $1,495 oven that can identify your food. And it only has one button. For the past four months, I’ve learned to operate in silence, moving about my house like a ninja. I pick up and put down each and every item as if it’s a delicate wine glass. Because if I don’t, I might not get any sleep.

I live with a baby now — which, among other things, means food has become a problem. Cooking makes a lot of noise. Time spent in the kitchen to create complicated meals, w…

Tesla Motors has said that its Nevada lithium-ion cell "Gigafactory" will be the largest of its kind in the world. And a massive factory requires a massive number of workers. However, many of the people at the Gigafactory at first will not be employees of Tesla, but rather of its battery-supply partner, Panasonic.

Tesla battery gigafactory site, Reno, Nevada, Fabruary 25, 2015 (photo: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Bob Tregilus)

The Japanese company will send several hundred employees to Nevada this fall to …

Are giant seaplanes the future of flight? Blended wing design can carry 2,000 passengers at once - without the need for an airport. Blended wing design reduces drag making plane more efficient - Can land on water negating the need for major airport expansions - Solves problem of large jets creating noise over urban airports.

Seaplanes could be the future of flight, it has been claimed. Experts have revealed a radical 'single wing' seaplane that could carry upto 2,000 passengers. It would help e…

A state-run Russian news site is reporting that the country has ambitions to build a huge, supersonic cargo plane capable of transporting tanks to the field in a matter of hours. While there's plenty of reason to be skeptical that transporting such heavy loads at high speeds is even feasible, let alone realistic, Russia's military is reportedly giving itself roughly the next decade to figure it out.

The heavy transport craft concept, dubbed the PAK TA, could fly at supersonic speeds of up to 2…

Das Brain4Cars-Forschungsprojekt entwickelt ein System, das Unfälle vorhersehen kann, bevor sie passieren.

Wenn es nach einer Wissenschaftlergruppe an den US-Universitäten Stanford und Cornell geht, bekommen Fahrzeuge bald eine Art siebten Sinn: Das Brain4Cars-Projekt arbeitet an einem System, mit dem der Bordcomputer die Fahrabsichten der Person hinter dem Lenkrad bereits mehrere Sekunden vorher erkennen kann.

(Brain4Cars-Forschungsprojekt)

Das hat mehrere Vorteile: So könnte ein Navigationss…

Mit dem Pacif-i von BlueMaestro soll sich der Nachwuchs nicht nur durch Nuckeln beruhigen. Eltern können über das Gerät auch Gesundheitsdaten erfassen.

Wie geht es dem Baby? Eltern wissen, wie schwer die Körpertemperatur mit normalen Thermometern zu messen ist. Der smarte Schnuller hat einen Sensor im Nuckelbereich, der die Temperatur per Bluetooth Low Energy laufend an eine App sendet. So können Eltern aufziehende Krankheiten früher erkennen.

Zudem dient der Schnuller als Aufpasser: Verlässt…

Der orangefarbene Prototyp wurde Ende März in Qingdao vorgestellt: Brennstoffzellen laden eine eingebaute Batterie während der Fahrt der Straßenbahn nach. Die Tram schafft 100 Kilometer mit einer Tankfüllung und eine Spitzengeschwindigkeit von 70 Kilometern pro Stunde.

Fehlende Wasserstoff-Tankstellen, die beim Auto bisher die Verbreitung der Technologie ausgebremst haben, sind in diesem Fall kein Problem: Weil die Straßenbahnen auf festen Routen fahren, müssen die Tankstellen nur entlang der …

Google has became the latest firm to experiment with smart textile design, weaving conductive threads into clothes to create touch-sensitive panels that work like smartphone screens (+ movie).

Project Jacquard was revealed at Google's I/O developer conference in San Francisco last week, when the tech company also unveiled sensors that use radar to translate hand movements into controls for electronic devices.

Devised by Google's Advanced Technology and Progress (ATAP) department, Project Jac…

Lift Lab, a Google owned company, has created a spoon that allows people with essential tremors and Parkinson's Disease to eat without spilling. In clinical trials, the Liftware spoons reduced shaking of the spoon bowl by an average of 76%.

Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/google-lift-lab-spoon-for-parkinsons-2014-11#ixzz3cY0fspia

Next time you fly, imagine that the interior of the airplane was made from plant-based materials, making much of the cabin sustainable. Boeing's improving the environmental performance of airplane interiors through novel use of flax.
See more Boeing innovations at http://www.boeing.com/innovation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYuegykWJY

The US Navy's next-gen electromagnetic catapult for aircraft carriers works! Well, OK, the military hasn't exactly used it to launch an actual fighter jet yet, but a recent test has proven that it can handle thousands of pounds of steel. The Navy has been testing the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System or EMALS for months aboard the Gerald R. Ford carrier, but this is the first time a "dead-load" (or a weighted steel sled that weighs up to 80,000 pounds) is involved.

Its advantages over tra…

State Route 87, the thin band of pavement that approaches the mostly shuttered town of Coolidge, Ariz., cuts through some of the least hospitable land in the country. The valley of red and brown sand is interrupted occasionally by rock and saguaro cactus. It’s not unusual for summer temperatures to top 116 degrees. And there is almost no water; this part of Arizona receives less than nine inches of rainfall each year.

Then Route 87 tacks left and the dead landscape springs to life. Barren road…

The city of Seattle saw a robotic population explosion this week as the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) descended on the Washington State Convention Center. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference ran the gamut of all things robotic, from showcases of new technology to forums on government policies as they relate to robotics.

The…

Machine vision and robotic precision have combined in a new way to further fruit fly research. Scientists at Stanford's Bio-X program have developed a robot that can catch and sort the tiny creatures much faster than a human can, though to the flies themselves it must seem like an alien abduction.

This robot's ability to quickly capture and identify fruit flies allows new areas of research and frees scientists from drudgery (Credit: Stanford University)

The fruit fly (or Drosophila) is one of …

A headset that shows cyclists safer routes through the city in realtime and a projectable blind-spot visualisation for buses and lorries are among the speculative prototypes developed by a team from Future Cities Catapult. The five mock-ups for Connected Cyclists all envision possible futures for creating a "soft infrastructure" for cyclists – a layer of digital information that can help make city roads safer to navigate and help riders choose more intelligent routes.

"Many cities are spendin…

Nasa reveals $2.3m plan to help a new generation of supersonic planes take flight. The money will be spent on eight research projects addressing technical challenges of supersonic flight; Engineers are developing something called the 'hybrid wing body' to improve the aerodynamics of planes; Nasa scientists are also working to define a new standard for sonic booms to improve travel speed; Another project aims to address the impact of supersonic aircraft emissions on the ozone layer

On October, …

20-year old inventor's idea for how o make ocean clean itself will be launched in Japan. Boyan Slat, a 20-year-old innovator in the Netherlands, has a lot on his plate – he’s set out to do nothing less than rid the oceans of the millions of tons of plastic garbage that circle along their currents. And judging by the support that has rallied behind his novel approach to the problem, there’s a good chance he just might succeed.

This 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure…

bromley caldari architects, in collaboration with acumen capital partners & brooklyn grange LLC, renovated a 300,000ft2 building in long island city, new york. originally a seven story commercial loft building, it has since catered to a range of industries including media, architecture, fashion, film, and printing, and design. as part of the $US 10,000,000 overhaul, the 42,000ft2 rooftop was transformed into a urban rooftop farm.

new york is home to a vibrant food-producing community that …