Filed under: Transportation Ad Astra’s VASIMR plasma rocket is about ready for testing, only problem is it requires the vacuum of space to do it in. NASA is now considering taking the rocket up to the International Space Station, clipping it on and firing her up — perhaps even using it to reposition the station. Formerly [...]
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Filed under: Transportation When landing or taking off in a plane, the only things you want to see on the runway are lights and stripes. Foreign Object Debris (FOD), the stuff that can get sucked into engines or even flatten a plane’s tires, has become the focus of several new technologies that are setting out to [...]
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Filed under: Transportation When landing or taking off in a plane, the only things you want to see on the runway are lights and stripes. Foreign Object Debris (FOD), the stuff that can get sucked into engines or even flatten a plane’s tires, has become the focus of several new technologies that are setting out to [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Filed under: Transportation Nissan has a knack for pumping out novel safety advancements every few months, and the latest two are in the same vein as a few previous efforts. Two new technologies, Side Collision Prevention and Back-up Collision Prevention, fit into the auto maker’s Safety Shield concept to “help protect the vehicle and its occupants [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Filed under: Transportation Ah, Black Hat. How we adore you. Each year there’s always one speaker who shows up and completely undermines something that most people assume is rock solid. This year, our pals at Hack-A-Day were in attendance to hear Nate Lawson expose California’s FasTrak toll system for the security hole that it is. Essentially, [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Filed under: Transportation Wipe those tears away, budding astronaut. SpaceX’s latest failure wasn’t completely in vain. According to head honcho Elon Musk, the problem came just after a “picture perfect first stage flight” when a longer than expected thrust decay transient of the new Merlin 1C regeneratively cooled engine became “just enough to overcome the stage [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Filed under: Transportation Okay, so maybe it’s not a huge deal if your Civic Hybrid only hums around town, but when behind the wheel of say, a Lightning GT, you’re going to want that bad boy to make some serious racket. Lotus is taking a somewhat fresh concept and kicking out an idea of its own [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Filed under: Transportation While we’re guessing “working replica” might be a bit of a stretch, this full-size, drivable Tumbler built by Bob Dullam in his garage is still quite the impressive piece of work, and will no doubt crush any eBay records set by home-built K.I.T.T.s if it ever actually goes up on the auction block. [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Filed under: Transportation, Wireless It seems that Dash-like devices that rely on plain old GPRS for two-way vehicle communications could one day be a bit redundant in Europe, as the European Commission has just set aside a slice of spectrum that’s intended specifically to let vehicles communicate with each other. As with the Dash and other [...]
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Filed under: Transportation, Wireless In a move that’s making us re-think our frequent flyer habits, Delta has announced that it will install Wi-Fi on its entire domestic fleet of more than 330 mainline aircraft by the first half of 2009. The Aircell Gogo service will run $9.95 or $12.95 for trips under or over three hours, [...]
Saturday, August 9, 2008
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