Concerning the new iPad. Got this wonderful video link from publishingtalk on twitter. Its hilarious especially the dance at the end .
Jan 272010
A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft design, NASA’s experimental one-man Puffin could show just how much electric propulsion can transform our ideas of flight. It looks like nothing less than a flying suit or a jet pack with a cockpit.
I think electrical aircrafts definitely are the way to go, even if there is substantial problems with battery technology. This is just a design concept for now, but it is a step in the right direction.
By March, the researchers plan on finishing a one third–size, hover-capable Puffin demonstrator, and in the three months following that they will begin investigating how well it transitions from cruise to hover flight. They are already looking past the Puffin, however. The next-generation of this design might incorporate more than just two pairs of prop rotors, so that if one was struck by, say, a bird or gunfire, the aircraft could survive on redundant systems. “We could make it so there’s no single point of failure—that’s the cool next step,” Moore says.
What do you think?
Source: ScientificAmerican.com
Jun 042009
Engadget writes that this beautiful gadget might become reality as soon as this summer. Me want!
Science Fiction ideas from Gene Roddenberry becomes reality?
US are developing a Tricorder like device that can monitor a person’s medical condition from 10 meters away according to the Registry.
Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Science and Technology Directorate intents to start testing the notebook like device with US paramedics this autumn.
It’s not as advanced as the Star Trek tricorder though, it can’t diagnose unknown diseases and such. But it will use laser Doppler vibrometry and a camera to measure pulse, body temperature and muscle movement such as breathing.
The boys and girls at DHS’s S&T seem to be in to all kind of science fiction stuff. They are also developing a Puke Ray (Really?) and a Handheld Lobster X-Ray scanner (who name these things?)
Related to this is Future Trek-nology we can live withouton AMC written by author John Scalizi and To Boldly go on Waiter Rant.
Personally i wouldn’t mind faster than light travel and flying cars. But are society ready?
What do you think?
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