Great_White_Shark There is always something mysterious about great white sharks, lucky for us we can use some of their natural designs for good. Some German researchers are using shark skin to make windmills spin more efficiently, and generate more electricity. Not real shark skin, thankfully. This is shark-line skin that can be painted onto wind turbines, airplanes and ships to reduce flow resistance,... 

hyperwall NASA’s hyperwall-2 is far more improved version of the 49-screen hyperwall that was developed just 6 years ago in 2002 by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) visualization team. NASA’s hypwerwall-2 almost triples the number of displays to 128 and improves processing power by more than 100 times! The 128 displays illuminate a billion pixels allowing for some eye-popping visualizations... 

Transonic Combustion A start up called Transonic Combustion  claims they can improve fuel efficiencies of engines by over 50%. They claim their fuel-injection system will get 17 Kilometers per liter of petrol in a mid sized car. Transonic Combustion Transonic’s fuel-injection system is supposedly better because it “uses supercritical fluids and requires no spark to ignite the fuel.... 

Volvo s60 concept Volvo, the car company that invented and saved thousands of lives with its car seat belts, has come up with yet another safety system. This time its safety for you, walking on the streets rather than in the car itself. The new Volvo S60 offers a new pedestrian alert system to further reduce unwanted accidents on the road which is caused by a moment of carelessness or unexpected movement.... 

nasa-heli-airbag Its about time somebody makes the Only mode of transportation that has managed to save more lives than it has lost, a lot Safer! Yes, it is the good old Helicopter. Guess what? Nasa is working on adding airbags on it to make it a lot safer. In case some of us don’t know, Helicopters can save lives even when they run of fuel, or its engine stalls. Well if your more than 100 feet... 

2009_mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz is launching a voice-controlled telematics system that puts a personal assistant in the car to find most any location, answer most any question and cater to most any command! “mbrace” provides “an unprecedented level of connectivity” and a suite of 18 services that can do everything from locate your car in a crowded parking lot to order stuff over the net. A... 

Nasa moon bombing First it was ISRO, now, NASA has said they’ve found “a significant amount” of water on the moon. Is there enough water for astronauts to actually live off? is still an unanswered question and NASA is analyzing that part now. Attempting to scale the results of the small section studied by LCROSS. Water if extracted, may need comprehensive purification before consumption....