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Self-driven Cars are on the Way
The driver-less automobiles are usually considered only an imagination. But, they might be present at roads close to you much earlier than you possibly think about, thanks to an inspiring future of driver-less automobile industry in the horizon. Mercedes is presently developing a model of its own S-Class that is capable of operating without driver provide at speeds of nearly 25 mph. The company guarantees that this is going to be introduced before the end of 2013. The automobile utilizes ultrasonic sensors and also long distance radar devices to guide the road as well as detect possible roadblocks for instance other road users or pedestrians. The significant benefit from this will absolutely be the capability to reduce annoying inner city driving or simply when you find yourself being stuck in a traffic jam.
Mercedes, General Motors as well as Audi has actually slipped under the radar when compared to Google’s driver-less equipment which has not just gotten the headlines, but as well asked a variety of states in the USA to switch their legislation with regard to the usage of driver-less automobiles.
Up to now, Google’s customized Toyota Prius has accomplished over 140, 000 miles of testing 100 percent flawlessly. The only incident the vehicle has become involved in was when it was rear ended by another motorist while still at traffic lights. Google is presently guessing that they will be having the equipment accessible to the public between 2016 and 2018. But, there are a number of concerns yet to be clarified regarding the future of autonomous automobiles. Another thing that is for sure is that Google will not appear to be going to establish their particular car brand. There is absolutely no sign of manufacturing facilities and no designs that have been posted, which might give the company an activity when they were planning to strike the 2016-2018 deadlines.
Self-driven automobiles are thereby impossible to come to be the mainstream within the following decade; however they are much closer to becoming a reality for early adopters than is generally realized.
3D Laser Scanning Technology: Structural Mapping for Buildings
A new laser scanning technology created by Scott Page Design, the security of your home will never be the same. The technology allows depth mapping even within those walls of yours. The powerful laser has the capacity to scan both the exterior and even the inner surface of. The laser scanning technology’s main application is to document as well as to show architectural flaws and transformations previously unimaginable. With this particular technology, we can easily map the entire world in outstanding detail, that is certainly something that before was nearly impossible without spending hundreds of thousands of years onto it.
Consider 3D laser scanning for:
- As-Built Deliverables: plans, sections and elevations
- 3D modeling
- Heritage surveys
- Site planning
- Animated fly-throughs
- MEP and Electrical layouts
- Reverse Engineering
- Clash Detection
Accuracy
Accurate measurements have always been a crucial element in the design process, from initial design studies through final construction documents. This is especially true for as-built conditions that require a thorough building survey before design work commences. In the past, measurements were typically taken with a tape measure, paper and pencil. The structure was pieced together from countless dimensions, photos, and experience. As the project evolved, frequent site visits were often necessary to fill out gaps in the information. With diligence, a typical drawing set would be accurate enough to guide the project through the planning department to the builder, who was left to sort out remaining irregularities. 3D laser scanning provides a better way to quickly and accurately capture as-built conditions for building documentation.
3D imaging is a relatively new development for architects, though it has been a valuable tool for engineers, surveyors and cartographers for the past decade. As scanner prices have declined and CAD software packages evolved to accept scan data, 3D laser scanners have finally reached architects and design professionals, improving dimensional accuracy and hastening as-built documentation, leaving more time for creativity and innovation.
Advantages
- Almost any project that requires accurate as-built information can benefit from 3D imaging: Measurement accuracy of ±2mm (depending on distance to measured object).
- Unobtrusive data capture methods.
- Reduced costly ‘return’ site visits.
- Rapid data capture of large volumes with increased accuracy.
- Measurements can be made quickly and easily when required without the need for return site visits.
- Shorter project times with a rapid turnaround of information.
- Point clouds can be checked and measured using free viewing software, from any scan location.
- Digital records.
Laser Scanning Applications
- Architectural design
- Heritage surveys
- Structural engineering
- Deformation analysis
- Clash detection
- Manufacturing
- Commercial real estate
- Insurance documentation
- Documenting construction progress
Via: scottpagedesign.com
The Future Hover Bike: Aerofex
The Aerofex hover bike continues to be in development for certain, however test-flight videos have shown up revealing it working over a dry lake bed in a desert. The Aerofex makes use of two ducted fans instead of wheels. The rider's leaning controls the direction of the bike. Certainly one of the project's objectives would be to produce a natural-feeling driving experience, similar to getting yourself on a motorbike.
Today, the Aerofex is generally a proof of concept. It's not quite prepared zipping through woods, but it's as near as we will have to an actual speeder bike.
InnovationNewsDaily reports that even though the hover bike is capable of doing higher altitudes and speeds , test flights to date have been tied to 30 mph ( 48 km/h ) and 15 feet ( 4 .6 meters ) for safety factors . Aerofex has launched several videos on its YouTube channel.
The Aerofex bike carries a set of ducted rotors. The company has resolved stability issues in the design utilizing a mechanical system with two control bars found at the rider’s knee level. Those control bars enable the bike to react to the pilots leaning motions as well as natural sense of balance.
The control of the Aerofex bike is managed mechanically without electronics or artificial intelligence flight software needed. That will actually help make the bike more robust, cheaper to buy as well as safer to operate.
NASA's Voyager 1 enters new Location of Space
NASA's Voyager 1 , that has happened to be zooming throughout space for longer than 35 years , noticed a great decrease in solar particles and a multiple big jump in high-energy galactic cosmic rays past August , the scientists publicized in three new studies published June 27 in the journal Science. The probe did not measure a shift in the direction of the ambient magnetic field, indicating that Voyager 1 is still within the sun's sphere of influence, experts stated. But mission scientists believe the spacecraft will most likely leave Earth's solar system somewhat soon.
"I think it's probably several more years at 2015 is reasonable," stated Voyager project scientist Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, lead author of one of the new studies as well as co-author of another. "But it's speculation, because none of the models we have, have this particular region in them," Stone explained to SPACE.com. "So none of the models can be directly and accurately compared to what we're observing. What we're observing is really quite new."
Another Location of Space
Voyager 1 as well as its twin, Voyager 2, 1977 to examine Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The probes finished this exceptional "grand tour" afterward maintained precise on traveling toward interstellar space. Voyager 1 should get there first. At 11 .5 billion miles from Earth, the spacecraft is the farthest man-made object in space. Voyager 2, for its part, is now 9 .4 billion miles. Each probes are presently travelling the outer layers of the heliosphere, the tremendous bubble of charged particles and magnetic fields encircling the sun. However details are actually becoming insightful for Voyager 1, the new studies report.
On Aug. 25, 2012, the probe reported a 1, 000-fold drop in the amount of charged solar particles while also measuring a 9 percent increasing amount of fast-moving particles of galactic origin known as cosmic rays. Those are two of the three phenomena that Voyager scientists expect to observe whenever the spacecraft crosses over into interstellar space. But Voyager 1 still hasn't recognized the third one — a transformation in magnetic-field orientation, from east-west within the solar system to about north-south outside of it. The magnetic field "did not change direction. All it did was get compressed, so it's stronger now than it was," Stone stated. "That's what one would expect if, in fact, the energetic particles, which were providing the pressure, suddenly left." In general, experts believed, Voyager 1's recent information shows that the spacecraft continues to be within the solar system, although it seems to remain in a sort of interface location linking the heliosphere and interstellar space.
Keep on Tracking
Mission scientists will keep an eye on the magnetic-field readings over the coming months and years, Stone stated. "If there's a dramatic change, like there was last Aug. 25, that will be very exciting," he stated. "If it's a gradual change, well, it'll just take us longer to realize what's happening."
Stone and his fellow workers expect that Voyager 1 leaves the solar system before 2020. The probe's decreasing power source will certainly force engineers to shut down the very first instrument that year, and most of them probably will stop working by 2025.
There's certainly no reason to imagine something will go wrong before 2020 , due to the fact the spacecraft remains to be in good condition despite its advanced age .However the mission team is aware there are no guarantees . "Something could break. That's what you can't predict — the random failure," Stone stated. "So far, we've been lucky. There haven't been any catastrophic random failures."
Via: foxnews.com
A Racer Bike that can be folded
This concept by Allen Chester G. Zhang was designed to be easily transported between work and play. It can be stowed quickly as it folds at the center to create a barely-there yet aesthetically pleasing accessory. Unfold to expose its natural suspension shape and gear-to-gear spoke-less wheels. Fluorescent copper-zinc components add not only to its aesthetic appeal but the rider’s safety. The color choices on this model are a beautiful combination.
Via: psipunk.com
A Space Elevator to the Moon will be expected in the year 2021
A US-based privately-owned company, LiftPort Group with former NASA researcher Michael Laine at the head, is looking forward to create a space elevator to the Moon. The idea of a space elevator stipulates a rocket-free way to travel with people as well as cargoes into orbit by utilizing a special kind of cable.
The California-based company established by former NASA engineer has developed an inexpensive and simple way to get to the lunar surface. The project will be based upon a special ribbon cable, on which transport modules and autonomous robots will travel. At the start, the researchers plan to test the system on the planet: the test elevator will be 2 kilometers high. Afterwards, a working system will be built. Initially, the company will use a space elevator to connect the Moon with a specially designed space station. The station will then be connected to a platform on Earth.
Company President Michael Laine is convinced that it will take eight years to create the elevator. The construction will need only a single launch of a spacecraft that would technically resemble the famous Soviet Sputnik-1. It is assumed that such an elevator can already become a part of modern-day reality taking into consideration the current level of the technological development.
The space elevator, scientists say, will help people build manned bases on the Earth's natural satellite and organize the extraction of helium-3 there, a raw material that will solve global problems of the shortage of energy resources, writes EnergySafe. According to most pessimistic estimates, the reserves of helium-3 on the Moon will be enough for Earth's population for at least 1, 000 years.
Via: english.pravda.ru
DNA samples of Human being lowered into the Marianas Trench
At the end of 2013, vast steel sculpture, 8 by 8 by 8m, being lowered deep into the Pacific Ocean. This first of a series of sculpture will be stored into the Marianas Trench, right to the bottom 11,000 meters down. That’s 200 miles off Guam Island between Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. It’s going to be full of human blood and hair samples, DNA.
This is art and hard science colliding head on. 30 locations around the world have attracted 5,000 willing donors or investors, if you like. All are rewarded with certificates proving they believed this might be a second chance.
Science is progressing faster than the greatest philosophers dare to predict, so who’s to say that there won’t be a point in the future when these samples can’s be utilized to bring people and endangered species back to life. It could be 500 to 100,000 years from now. Who knows? But this is a chance to be there when it happens!
How will we have evolved? How will humans be different? The Deep Storage Project is fighting back against the natural decay and erosion destroying all that we know and understand. People are embracing the ideals of the The Deep Storage Project, and in doing so, they are becoming a voice to be heard in the future.
Via: deepstorageproject.com
Awesome Flying Machine: Martin Jetpack
A new company, Martin Jetpack, may possibly put the land of New Zealand down under on map, this time around for an excellent achievement of engineering.
The Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack. It consists of a purpose-built gasoline engine driving twin ducted fans which produce sufficient thrust to lift the aircraft and a pilot in vertical takeoff and landing, and enable sustained flight.
The Martin Jetpack is creating a new segment in the aviation and recreational vehicle markets. Initially designed with the leisure market in mind, commercial demand for the Martin Jetpack has seen the development programme focus on readying the product for use in a number of sectors including emergency response, defense and recreation, with numerous applications in each sector.There is also an unmanned version planned which will lift more than most vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Martin Jetpack can take off from a small space, so is easy to deploy anywhere. It is easy to learn to fly, has an automated hover function, and is expected to be able to be flown in reasonable weather conditions.
Safety is very important to the Martin Aircraft Company. The dedicated engine is being designed to an aviation industry standard. In addition, the Martin Jetpack is designed to protect the pilot, including a ballistic parachute and a crumple undercarriage.
The Martin Jetpack can reach an excellent height of 1, 524 meters (5 ,000 ft) happens to be granted a permit to fly in uninhabited, rural areas . Though New Zealand’s flight regulators have limited Martin’s scope of operation for the time being the company says that military and first-responder versions of the Jetpack have been in developed and a consumer version will be available by 2015.
Perhaps if Martin can keep to their timetable, at some time in 2015, you’ll have the chance to fly your own Jetpack provided you can spend $200K for the machine.
Via: martinjetpack.com
The Flying Yacht: EkranoYacht
Created by an Australian industrial designer Jaron Dickson, ‘EkranoYacht’ is a remake of the Russian made flying vessel ‘EkranoYacht’. It is actually a hydrogen-powered wing-in a ground effect boat which is able of traveling 4m above the sea level as well as runs at roughly 400kph in complete trip. Furthermore, it could actually undertake waves of as high as 3 .5 m. These great features make the EkranoYacht an excellent flying machine; but, when necessary, the vessel can be used as a normal yacht as well.
EkranoYacht utilizes a hydrogen fuel cell as its major source of energy; it will supply power to the jets as well as electricity for the passengers. But, when traveling via sensitive coastal areas, the vessel can only use an electric drive motor. EkranoYacht is specifically made for the year 2025, the vessel is supposed to be used as a permanent residence. Inside, it can easily accommodate 6 persons and features an open floor plan with large windows for natural sunlight.
“The project focuses on more efficient sea travel and protecting the environment. To truly show your wealth and success is freedom, and the ultimate freedom is bringing you home where ever you go.” Jaron stated.
Via: environmentteam.com
Samsung Flexible Phone Displays
In last January 2013 Samsung officially released their flexible OLED displays, naming it YOUM displays. YOUM panels are bendable - however it's likely that the very first product to manage those displays will in fact be rigid. The display is generally "curved" thought.
Many predicted that the very first products with flexible OLEDs are going to be mobile phones. Those phones will be lightweight and thinner compared to existing mobile phones , as well as the display will be much stronger (a plastic material based AMOLED will likewise also be shatterproof). It's also possible that Samsung will indeed utilize a curved display.
When are we going to see the very first YOUM product?
Samsung did not give a particular commitment, however it might seem that the company is looking to begin manufacturing YOUM panels in 2013. We think that the production volume will be minimal, and the panels will be somewhat more expensive when compared with glass based panels. The OLED Association states that the Note 3 Smartphone or tablet is going to be the very first product with a plastic OLED, 5 .9" or more in size. It will certainly ship in the quarter of 2013, however in limited quantities.
Via: oled-info.com
A Contact Lens that enables you to zoom your Eyesight
Scientists made a prototype contact lens and glasses system that enables you to zoom in on a specific thing to 2.8 times magnification. The lenses perform the zooming, while the glasses allow you to shift between normal and magnified sight. At this time, the lens' technical engineers, a group with members from California and Switzerland, are developing it for those who have age related macular degeneration , which happens to be the number one reason for eyesight loss in Americans older than 60. The technical engineers are actually preparing to begin a clinical experiment in November, the BBC said.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded the groundwork, recommending that the U.S. government is eying super vision of soldiers in the near future. But, it really must be better to create something for macular degeneration first, since it's better to come up with a possible remedy for eyesight loss compared to it is to improve on healthy eyesight, the BBC said. The lens is composed of concentric regions. The center region allows light through normally, for regular eyesight. Whereas, the corners of the lens are purposely designed to reflect light as well as magnify it. The final lens is 1.17 millimeters at the thickest region around the corners and it's manufactured from the similar hard plastic as first-generation contact lenses, the technical engineers explained in a paper they published in the journal Optics Express.
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The glasses function by adding or taking out a polarized light filter onto their lenses. With the filter on, light would travel to the normal region of the lens. Without the filter, light would go to the magnifying region rather.
Via: popsci.com
World's very first Conversation Robot Scheduled for Outer Space
The world's very first conversation experiment between a robot and humans is in a position to be launched. Developments for the Kirobo development called after "Kibo" or simply hope in Japanese and "robot," gathered in Tokyo at to show the humanoid robots speak. "Russia was the first to go to outer space, the United States was the first to go to the moon, then we wish Japan to be the first to send a robot-astronaut to outer space which has the ability to communicate with humans, " said Yorichika Nishijima, the Kirobo project manager.
The test is a partnership between promotion and PR company Dentsu Inc., the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Robo Garage and Toyota Motor Corp. Tomotaka Takahashi, Chief executive officer of Robo Garage Co. and associate professor at the University of Tokyo, said he hopes robots like Kirobo that hold conversations will eventually be used to assist astronauts working in space. "When people think of robots in outer space, they tend to seek ones that do things physically," stated Takahashi. "But I think there is something that could come from focusing on humanoid robots that focus on communication."
Due to the fact that Kirobo will not require carrying out physical activities, it is really small compared to the majority of robots that get deep into. Kirobo is around 34 centimeters in height (13 inches) and weighs in approximately 1 kilogram (2 .2 pounds). The land-based counterpart Mirata seems to be almost precisely the same however is not made to go into outer space. Rather, it offers the ability to know by means of the conversations it has.
At the time of the demonstration, Fuminori Kataoka, project general manager from Toyota, asked Kirobo what its dream was. "I want to create a future where humans and robots can live together and get along," it answered. Kirobo is scheduled to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on August 4, 2013.
Via: foxnews.com
Paper Thin Smartphones can easily Folded
Gadgets that can be easily folded are something which sci-fi writers usually wish about for countless years. However, we’re confident that we’ve not actually heard about someone thinking up that could transform shapes to show incoming calls as well as a notification. Although, a new development of radical paper-thin gadgets could certainly make this impossible vision occur a reality soon. Designed by Canadian experts from Queen’s University working in British company Plastic Logic which is a leader in plastic electronics, the elastic electrophoretic display is called MorePhone and also has embedded alloy wires that pull and deform on the screen to enable it to show notifications by curling up.
The Smartphone is paper thin with a thin plastic display together with 'smart memory' wiring that curl up a single corner of the gadget or up to three corners to indicate incoming calls to notifications. Users can even modify curling styles in order that the curling up in a particular corner signifies various notifications. Users can also modify the display to display curls bending down and up whenever an important message is received.
Industry experts point out that elastic display technologies and Smartphones based upon thin film can give significantly new methods of interacting which is very different from what our typical gadgets offer today. In the mean time, Smartphones put in silent mode is able to only vibrate or provide a low volume beep to signify a new call.
In spite of this, occasionally the user misses these types of signals and results in missing important calls. But, a visual notification just likes a phone that changes its shape whenever it receives a call in silent mode might help significantly decrease the chances of individuals not getting important notifications. Experts say that the technology continues to be enhanced significantly and can be released on the market as soon as within the following years.
Via: gizmowatch.com
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The Future Money could be Gold "CombiBars"
Investors bothered that inflation and also the financial market situation are going to wipe out the value of their cash have poured money into gold within the past decade.
Prices do gain about 500 per cent since the year 2001 – as compared with a 12 per cent increase in MSCI’s world equity index, a benchmark for the value of the world’s business investments. Based on records from the World Gold Council, profits of gold bars and also coins were the equivalent to approximately $77 billion ( £48 billion ) in , up from exactly $3 .5 billion ( £2 .2 billion ) in 2002 . Swiss refinery Valcambi has started selling the CombiBars, divisible valuable metal bars, to the private investors in Switzerland, Austria as well as Germany who is concerned about the hyperinflation. The 50g gold CombiBars are the size of a credit card, simply split up into one gram pieces to be used as money through the crisis. Michael Mesaric, Chairman of Valcambi, states that the advantage of the CombiBar (dubbed a ‘chocolate bar’) is that it is easily carried and is cheaper than buying 50 one gram bars. CombiBars are investment products which are a strong composite of 50 x 1g Gold, 100 x 1g Silver or 10 x 10g Silver Bars. They can also be available in Silver as legal tender 100 x 1g CombiCoin or 10 x 10g CombiCoin and as 50g Palladium and Platinum CombiBars. The single 1g / 10g bars are produced with precise constructed preset breaking points and thereby will be split up easily without the loss of material. The Purity of the consisted Gold is 99, 99% and of the consisted Silver 99, 9% such as regular produced Good Delivery bars too. The company aims to bring CombiBars to market in the U .S. as well as establish sales in India, the world’s biggest consumer of gold.
Via: futuristicnews.com
