Archive for the ‘innovation’ category: Page 196
Apr 6, 2016
Canadians to develop space mining tool
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: innovation, space
Could benefit China and their own efforts in 2017.
Deltion Innovations aims to design a drill that would prospect for water, ice and resources on the moon and beyond.
Apr 5, 2016
Taiwanese research institute is wrapped in an undulating skin of 4,000 aluminum fins
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, innovation
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is located at Central Taiwan Innovation and Research Park in Nantou, Taiwan. It is expected to become the central facility of the Science Park to be built in this region. Noiz Architects and Bio Architecture Formosana won the competition to design the building in 2010. During the development phase, the project site had to be relocated once during the design development phase, and the construction finally completed in September 2014.
Related: Japanese research center fuses natural design elements with energy efficiency.
Apr 5, 2016
Will this breakthrough see an electric car in every driveway?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, transportation
Electric car batteries are getting cheaper.
Will we all drive electric cars one day? http://wef.ch/1MaNk4I
Apr 3, 2016
Tesla Unveils Model 3 | Tesla Motors
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: automation, business, Elon Musk, energy, innovation, robotics/AI, science, sustainability, transportation
Tag: Tesla
Mar 30, 2016
Reaching for the stars: How lasers could propel spacecraft to relativistic speeds
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: innovation, space travel
In a bold but scientifically sound proposal, NASA-funded research has laid out a roadmap toward spacecraft with relativistic speeds for the exploration of nearby stars (Credit: NASA). View gallery (8 images)
How do you send man-made probes to a nearby star? According to NASA-funded research at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the answer is simple: assemble a laser array the size of Manhattan in low Earth orbit, and use it to push tiny probes to 26 percent the speed of light. Though the endeavour may raise a few eyebrows, it relies on well-established science – and recent technological breakthroughs have put it within our reach.
Mar 28, 2016
Politicisation of NBN a ‘tragedy’ that has held back innovation, ABC’s Q&A told
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: innovation
Innovations expert Sandy Plunkett joins panellists in criticising government’s controversial NBN model, but Wyatt Roy says it’s about separating ‘rhetoric and reality’.
Mar 25, 2016
This Drone Can Launch from Under Water
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, innovation
CRACUNS, an innovative drone being developed by Johns Hopkins University, can be launched from under water and live completely submerged for as long as two months. http://voc.tv/14JQHoo
Mar 25, 2016
To the Moon! NASA Contest Kick-Starts Innovative Space Tech
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: innovation, space travel
Startup NASA’s “Space Race” program will let companies vie to commercialize space exploration tech.