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Northrop Grumman has written a new line in the history books, the company's Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) executing the first undocking of two commercial satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) – heralding a new age of commercial space operations.
Tags: Satellite, Northrop Grumman, Commercial
On-again, off-again tariffs by the US government could have a heavy impact on many industries. Not the least of which is automotive. But it might be a surprise to find out which are the most American-made.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Production, Cars, Electric Vehicles
While a stethoscope will tell you if someone has a respiratory ailment, it will only share that information in the few minutes it's being used by a trained physician. A new wearable device could paint a much bigger picture of the problem, by monitoring the patient's breathing for days at a time.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: KIST, Breathing, Lung, Diagnostic devices
Very few cross-industry partnerships have been a marketing success story like the Ducati-Lamborghini collaboration. The Streetfighter V4 Lamborghini and the Diavel 1260 Lamborghini have been two of the most well-liked special editions to come out of the brand’s stable
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Ducati, Lamborghini, Ducati Panigale, Superbike, Carbon Fiber
Suddenly American boaters have a variety of highly portable, blade-like electric outboard options to add a little clean, quiet power. Joining the recent North American launch of the RemigoOne from Slovenia, France's Temo is introducing its own sleek, clamp-and-ride electric outboard. While similar to the RemigoOne in some key specs, the Temo 1000 offers a few advantages that set it apart, including a removable battery pack that can be swapped in real time to multiply your time on the water.
Tags: Outboard Motor, Electric Boats, Portable, Motor
Dangbei has announced the US launch of a compact 1080p smart projector that's mounted to a gimbal stand for one-handed image adjustment over 190 degrees. The N2 mini can stream popular apps like Netflix and Prime Video, can throw visuals at up to 120 inches and rocks Dolby sound – all at an attractively low price point.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Portable, Projectors, HD, LED
As we've mentioned a few times, sales of vinyl records have been on the increase for a few years now. If you're looking for something rather special to spin your records on, but missed out on Brian Eno's limited runs, Audio Technica could have the answer.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Audio-Technica, Turntables, Luxury, Lighting, Audiophile, Milan Design Week 2012
Be it wrestling with headphones or earbuds, or sharing a bed with someone that prefers silence, drifting off to sleep with an audio soundtrack is not always the most practical method of relaxation. But this handy, inexpensive speaker may be just the thing to solve some of the common issues people face at bedtime.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Sleep, Bone Conduction, Headphones, Speakers, Bluetooth Speakers, Portable Audio
Even with all the economic uncertainty lately, it seems folks still love their motorcycles. And while global giants like KTM and Harley-Davidson have been struggling lately with declining sales, Royal Enfield has managed to achieve the opposite: surpassing a million motorcycle sales!
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Royal Enfield, Record-breaking, Retro, Harley Davidson, KTM
Automakers are putting the brakes on ambitious all-electric vehicle expansion plans of recent past, increasingly pursuing multiple powertrain technologies for cutting emissions across their global lineups. Horse Powertrain is ready to lend a hand, putting its expertise in both electric motor and ICE technology into an all-in-one fuel-electric drive it calls the Future Hybrid Concept. The visionary setup looks to seamlessly blend battery and fuel propulsion into a single drive unit that easily transforms a pure-electric car into a flexible hybrid.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Motors, Engine Technologies, concept engine, Plug-in Hybrid, PHEV, Electric Vehicles, auto-shanghai-2025
While in-vehicle collision avoidance systems may be good at detecting big targets like automobiles, they're not as adept at detecting bicycles. Radian's Wingman was designed to address that problem, by boosting bikes' radar and LiDAR visibility.
Tags: Cycling, Road Safety, Collision, Obstacle avoidance, Radar, LIDAR
Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles (MAVs), it ultimately won't be that useful if it can't stick a good landing. That's why scientists at Harvard University have now given their RoboBee a set of long, jointed legs much like those of the crane fly.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Harvard, MAV, Flight, Biomimicry
I'm writing this from a laptop that's stalling and refusing to switch between tabs because it's gotten too warm in the early Indian summer. It's not like I'm running a hectic workload of video and audio editing tools and multiple browsers at once: this old machine just can't move heat away from the processor and other internals quickly enough.
Tags: Cooling, University of Virginia, Electronic
If you've watched even a single episode of CSI, you'll know how important it is to check suspects and crime scenes for gunshot residue (GSR). A new technique could make that task faster and easier than ever before, by quickly causing the residue to glow green.
Category: Science
Tags: University of Amsterdam, Forensics, Crime, Guns, Detection, Police, Perovskite
Influential Dutch studio MVRDV has been chosen to radically renovate a disused church. The former place of worship is being transformed into a public swimming pool, complete with a movable floor that lets visitors "walk on water."
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Renovation, Church, MVRDV, Pool
Storing hundreds of books on a digital device is a great way to satisfy your thirst for adventure or knowledge without needing lots of shelving in the home. But e-readers don't really feel book-like. Until now. E Ink has partnered with Readmoo to launch the first foldable color e-book reader.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Santa Clara-based eVTOL maker Archer has its sights set on making air taxis a thing, like, really soon. It's just revealed plans for a network of vertiports from which its electric aircraft can take off and land in New York (NYC) – so you can beat street traffic and get around town in minutes.
Tags: urban transport, eVTOL, Air Taxis, Flying taxi, Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation, Volocopter
While hydrofoils lift out of the water thanks to an underwater fin, hydroplanes zoom along by riding directly on the surface of the water. A slick carbon-fiber scale model from startup CovaConcepts shows off the latter concept in a fun new video.
Tags: Hydrofoil, Hydroplane, Boating, Electric Boats, Model, Prototype
For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a complex operation. It ushers in a new era of more successful heart transplant surgery.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Cardiovascular, Heart Failure, Transplant, Surgery, National Taiwan University, Heart
The British Army has successfully tested a Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) that took out multiple swarms of drones simultaneously and near instantaneously using high-frequency radio waves at a cost of 10p (US$0.13) per shot.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: British Army, Directed Energy Weapon, drones
