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Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2009
Matt Molnar |
10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design Ingenious designs, plus where to find them and how they work.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2009
Christopher DeMorro |
Solar-Powered Airship: Project Sol'R Flies on Rays and Hydrogen French engineering and tech students have created a 2.4-kilowatt, solar-powered airship. While they have proven that this one-man dirigible floats, they have yet to take it for a test run. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
David Hambling |
4 High-Tech Weapons That Clear Underwater Naval Mines Northrop Grumman is developing a helicopter-based technology, called the Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System. Other water weapons are described. |
Popular Mechanics
July 3, 2009
Seth Porges |
5 Theme Park Rides That Pushed the Limits of Common Sense One of these rides, the Cannonball Loop's radical design seems to betray a lack of an understanding of basic physics. To wit: The ride runs through a perfect circle. Early-roller coaster engineers toyed with this design, with disastrous results. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
John McHale |
It Always Feels Like Somebody's Watching me... Today's video security technology can provide impressive detailed surveillance in many ways, but developers are using video analytics, image fusion, and high-definition methods to obtain even better night and day images. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
SPAWAR Continues C4ISR, Cold Fusion, MEMS Advancement for National Security U.S. Navy researchers are looking into issues ranging from nonlinear dynamics to sensors, microelectromechanical systems, and cold fusion to bring about quantum improvements in computers, communications, and sensors. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
John McHale |
Balancing Power with Performance in Rad-Hard Processors The methods for making processors and integrated circuits (ICs) radiation hardened (rad-hard) have not changed much, but the chips themselves are getting smaller, faster, and generating more heat than ever before. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2009
Mark Hachman |
The Bottomless DVD A new breakthrough could herald the 10-terabyte disc. |
Chemistry World
July 2009
Ned Stafford |
Hoisting the solar sail Flying through space by catching sunlight on ultra-thin sails could revolutionize space travel - and the idea could soon take off. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erik Sofge |
6 Bright Ideas for the Future of Energy While wind turbines and solar panels are impressive green technologies, the way to really slash one's bills and environmental impact is to live in a hyperefficient house |
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