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New System Developed to Test and Evaluate High-Energy Laser Weapons
August 17, 2010
Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance have been in development for many years. Today, these technologies -- known as directed energy weapons -- are maturing to the point of becoming deployable.
Military Wants to Super-Charge Troop Smarts
July 6, 2010
The Pentagon is looking to better train its troops – by scanning their minds as they play video games. Adaptive, mind-reading computer systems have been a work-in-progress among military agencies for at least a decade. In 2000, far-out research agency Darpa launched...
Why Apple banned Flash from the iPhone
July 6, 2010
In a rare open letter published Thursday, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons why his company refuses to let Adobe Systems’ Flash Player onto the iPhone: he thinks it’s a relic, not the future...
Shoe Power Generator, Embedded in the Sole of a Shoe, Harvest Energy –
July 6, 2010
Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana tech University has developed a technology that harvests power from a small generator embedded in the sole of a shoe. Kaajakari’s innovative technology...
Earthquake-Resistant Engineering
July 6, 2010
How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts from the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona, one approach to this problem is to consider a building
A Power Plant for Wind and Waves
July 6, 2010
Since offshore wind turbines generally work best in the world’s worst seas, you might as well try to generate wave power at the same time.That’s the basic idea behind Floating Power...
The Engineer is Essential to Solving Global Problems
July 6, 2010
That may sound logical, but it isn’t entirely accurate, according to a noted Duke University engineer and historian. This assumption blurs the lines between the two approaches to the natural world, and could ...
Domestic Robot to Help Sick Elderly Live Independently Longer
July 6, 2010
To enable elderly people to live at home as long as possible, a group of European researchers, coordinated from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), will link robot and ‘smart homes’. The robot....
Giant NASA balloon crashes in Australia
July 6, 2010
SYDNEY (AFP) – A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia Thursday, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers. Dramatic footage of the incident...
Astronomers find loads of ice on big asteroid
July 6, 2010
The discovery of significant asteroid ice has several consequences. It could help explain where early Earth first got its water. It makes asteroids more attractive to explore, dovetailing with President Barack Obama’s announcement ...