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a five-year project, the beaded supersonic aircraft is set to debut at the museum of flight in seattle, starting june 21st, 2025. The post reclaimed supersonic MiG-21 fighter jet radiates again with ralph ziman’s colorful glass beads appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a tiny sensor that can help keep tabs on metabolites – substances produced or used when your body breaks down food, medication, or even its own fat and muscle in metabolic processes – far more extensively than current methods.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Innovations, Body & MindTags: metabolism, UCLA, Sensors, Lab
French company Beyond Aero has released an updated design for the zero-emissions jet it's aiming to put into service by 2030, claiming it'll be considerably cheaper to run than conventional jets, while cutting cabin noise by half.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Hydrogen Aviation, Fuel Cell, Jets, Aircraft, Climate Solutions: Aviation, Hydrogen-powered
You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people can't go.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Harvard, Biomimicry
You can trust Russian mechanics to come up with some crazy stuff. This time, they've put a Fiat 124-derived Lada under the knife, and installed 16 chainsaw engines arranged in a V formation – because why not?Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Lada, Custom, Engineering, Chainsaw, Crazy
Astro Mechanica – founded in 2021 by Ian Brooke and with a tight ship of only eight employees – is an aerospace startup developing what it calls a turboelectric adaptive engine for both subsonic and supersonic flight ... with electric car motor technology.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Supersonic, Subsonic, Electric Aircraft, Hybrid, Jets
A major player in aerospace innovation has bitten the dust. Reaction Engines, a developer of hypersonic engine technology since 1989, has gone into administration and its closure is having a major impact on the hypersonic weapons program of Britain and others.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Reaction Engines, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Hypersonic, Aviation
Ordinarily, if you want liquid to flow in only one direction through a pipe, that pipe needs to be equipped with a flap-type valve – which could fail. Now, however, scientists have created a new type of potentially more robust one-way-flow pipe, which was inspired by shark intestines.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: University of Washington, Sharks, Biomimicry, Fluid Dynami
some users can sunbathe while sipping a drink, while others can enjoy the adrenaline rush offered by the personal watercraft. The post with a slender form, ONE 16 transforms a jet ski into a 6-meter boat appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Back in 1970, Sega introduced an arcade game that would pave the way for many of today's most popular video games. Known as Jet Rocket, the electromechanical marvel boasted several world-firsts – even though most people today don't know it ever existed.Continue ReadingCategory: Games, TechnologyTags: Games, Flight Simulators, Retro, Sega, Video Games


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