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Graphene loudspeaker membranes coming March 2018 and devices to follow
Google on track to make quantum computer faster than classical computers within 7 months
Rolls Royce has 450 MW modular nuclear reactor design
China completing another nuclear reactor and Japan's court clear two more reactors for restart
The Pentagon is building robotic wingmen to fly alongside fighter planes
Chinook ETS Drives Like, And Against, The Wind – Video
Ecotuned Ready To Convert Ford Trucks To Electric, Like A 48-kWh F-150
Craig Venter's 'Digital-to-Biological Converter' Is Real
Stick-on pads designed to save your soles
DELINGPOLE: Ship of Fools III – 
Transportation
The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.
VTOL electric plane with 36 engines has successful test flight and will enable air taxi service
The Lilium Jet successfully completed its maiden test flight series in the skies above Bavaria. The 2-seater Eagle prototype executed a range of complex maneuvers, including its signature mid-air transition from hover mode to wing-borne forward fligh
Toyota-funded flying car may light a fire before the 2020 Olympics
Toyota is backing a flying car project that developers hope could be used to kick off the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a certain high-tech flair.
A cruising airship for VIP excursions
Designed with sightseeing in mind, the Invitation can take off with a dozen VIP passengers and their families
$13,000 DIY Electric Car Drives 340 Miles On 2/3rds Of Its Battery – Video
In order to show the potential of ITAP's hybrid recycling method, they pit a Tesla Model S P90D, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan LEAF, and "The Phoenix" against each other on a highway range test.
Watch this all-electric 'flying car' take its first test flight in Germany
Lilium Jet claims its can reduce travel headaches with a network of vertical take-off and landing aircraft
Aiming for a new era in airships
It's a plane, it's a helicopter, it's a butt-shaped blimp. The Airlander 10 is like no other aircraft in the skies.
Plasma propulsion could become effective and useful for higher altitude aviation...
Berkant Göksel at the Technical University of Berlin and his team now want to fit plasma engines to planes.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Flying car to go on sale
It may not be quite like the Jetsons, but for over a million dollars you too can soon fly around in a car.
Lilium's Funky 'Jet' Could Make Our Dreams of Flying Cars Come True
Looking at it, you wouldn't think the Lilium Jet could fly. It looks more like a computer mouse than any aircraft you've seen, and its 36 small propellers run on electricity, not jet fuel.
Gas explorer teams up with Lockheed Martin on helium-fuelled airships
Giant helium-fuelled airships could soon be plying the skies - and a Tanzania-based gas explorer hopes to be joining them for the ride.
Plasma Jet Engines Might Soon Take Us From Earth to Space
Fossil fuel-less propulsion.
Here's The Entire Record-Setting Nio EP9 Nurburgring Lap – Video
Back on May 12, 2017, the pure electric Nio EP9 set a new Nurburgring Nordschleife lap record. Now there's video of the entire lap of the 'Ring.
Insane Electric Go Kart Does 0-60 In 1.5 Seconds
It's faster than any Bugatti, Demon, or even Tesla you can think of.
Death Spiral for Car Ownership? End of Fuel-Powered Cars by 2024?
I have been a leading proponent that self-driving vehicles, especially trucks, will be here sooner than most think. My estimate for long-haul trucks taking over is 2021-2022 or so. Widespread adoption of self-driving cars will be slower.
Path to 1000 people per year paying less than $1 million for orbital space tourism
The cheapest advertised price to launch people to LEO is a bit over $26 million/seat on a Falcon 9/Dragon which includes a stay at a Bigelow space station [Bigelow 2015], also in development.
How Airbus Dreamed Up the Wild Design for Its Flying Car
This time a year ago, flying cars sat firmly in the "fun to think about, ain't gonna happen" category. But in recent months, company after company has emerged with totally-not-kidding plans to deliver vehicles worthy of George Jetson. And so, t
Towards an Economically Viable roadmap to large scale space colonization
Al Globus and Joe Strout have an analysis that space settlements in low (~500 km) Earth equatorial orbits may not require any radiation shielding at all.
Elon Musk just posted a bunch of pictures of his tunnel and 'Boring' equipment
Elon Musk has begun digging under Los Angeles.
The entrepreneur posted Friday several pictures of equipment meant for digging tunnels beneath Los Angeles.
China plans asteroid base for interstellar travel and mining
It's one small step for man, one giant opportunity for miners. With some of Earth's valuable resources dwindling, space mining is looming as the new frontier for world governments.
China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission
Chinese students will live in a laboratory simulating a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon.
TankTwo String Batteries
Franco Gonzales of IDTechEx interviews Bert Holtappels of TankTwo about their battery packs for electric cars at the IDTechEx Show! In Berlin. TankTwo's system is comprised of multiple individual intelligent cells made from same material as traditi
Spacex set for second booster relaunch in June
SpaceX's second re-launch of a previously used Falcon 9 rocket booster is targeted for next month, for a mission launching a Bulgarian communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center.
You Don't Have to Wait for Tesla to Get Your Electric Pickup Truck
Americans love pickup trucks. The mighty Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in the US for 35 years, and last year the Dodge Ram and Chevrolet Silverado placed second and third. The basic design of this quintessential American vehicle
Naysayer Reality Check: Waymo's Self-Driving Taxi Debuts in Phoenix, for Free
Every time I do a post on self-driving vehicles, readers respond that it cannot happen and won't happen for a decade, if ever.
Is This Finally Our Flying Car?
Every living human being dreams of a flying car.
No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car
CLEARLAKE, Calif. -- On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake about 100 miles north of San Francisco.
In the Age of Trump, China Eyes Electric Car Dominance
IF YOU'RE CHARGED up for a world of electric cars, consider booking a trip to China. This week, the world's automakers gathered at the Shanghai Auto Show to reveal their latest wares, pulling the cover of one electric after another.
Commercial flying cars offered for $1.2 to $1.6 million with 2020 delivery
AeroMobil is offering the first flying cars.
Toyota's Still Serious About Hydrogen--It Built a Semi to Prove It
For a while there, the hydrogen fuel cell was the darling of the transportation industry. It would provide the zero emission propulsion of a battery-powered car, the refueling time of a gas-powered car, producing nada but drinkable H20 as a byproduct
Elon Musk Announces Plans To Launch All-Electric Semi Truck In September
All electric, presumably self-driving and gargantuan in size, it could make cargo transportation safer and less detrimental to the environment.
Rumours the US Military Is Testing an EM Drive on the X-37B Space Plane Just Won't Die
Everyone chill.
Elon Musk: Tesla Semi Truck To Debut This September, Pick-Up Truck To Follow
The news flow from Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to be prolific.
Virgin tests space plane's "feather" re-entry system
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital spacecraft took to the skies over the Mojave desert in an unpowered flight test of the ship's feather re-entry system.
Want Electric Airplanes?
Sorry, But You Gotta Start Small and Boring
Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up
Like everything else in the 1960s, NASA's Saturn V rocket set a mark for extreme. At 363 feet tall, with 7.5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, it lifted six moon-bound missions into space. Retired in 1973, it remains the tallest, heaviest, and most
LIFE ON THE HIGH SEAS Incredible pics reveal plans for 460ft luxury superyacht...
Visionary French designer George Lucian hopes his dream yacht will be built one day
NASA is working on a 'vacuum airship' for Mars missions (and 22 other bonkers ideas)
It sounds like something out of science fiction – a vacuum airship filled with empty space, which will soar above the thin atmosphere of Mars.
Liftoff! SpaceX Nails Second Launch in Three Days
SpaceX nailed its second launch in three days today (June 25) with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying 10 satellites owned by Iridium Communications.
Chinook ETS Drives Like, And Against, The Wind – Video
It's part sailboat, part wind turbine, and all student-built.
Ecotuned Ready To Convert Ford Trucks To Electric, Like A 48-kWh F-150
Sure, Ford is working on some sort of electrified F-150 pick-up truck, but whatever that vehicle is, it's a long ways away.
New Paper Ream-Like Battery Boasts Impressive Energy Density
Doubling the energy density, and thus range of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles to some 620 miles (1,000 km) is the stated goal of Mobile Energy Storage Systems out of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany.
IVYS Simple Fuel Station Offers Homemade Hydrogen For $250,000 – live video
It's a lot cheaper than a full-scale H2 station, that's for sure.
The Electric, Driverless Revolution Is About to Hit the High Seas
Fully electric ship Yara Birkeland to be launched next year
Will be controlled remotely in 2019, fully automated by 2020
Lightning Motorcycles Gunning For 400-Mile Single-Charge Run
According to Lightning Motorcycles, the company intends to test an eMoto capable of traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco without a recharge. The run is expected to be late this summer or early fall.
Small nuclear fusion space and energy systems using high efficiency RF heating
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.
Elon Musk tweets that Falcon Heavy Should launch in Four Months
The Spacex Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world that will be currently flying. There have been more powerful rockets but they are no longer flying. The Falcon heavy will be capable of launching 64 metric tons into Low Earth Orbi
Autonomous cars (no human backup) may hit the road next year
Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next year in what may be the first attempt at unassisted autonomous piloting.
China developing arsenal ship that would have a high speed hydroplaning mode and...
China developing arsenal ship that would have a high speed hydroplaning mode and submersible capability
Tomahawk 370 Mile Electric Supercar Enters Production In 2018, 60 MPH In 2 Seconds
Dubuc Motors has announced that its $125,000 or so electric sports car, the Tomahawk, is now scheduled for production in 2018, complete with 0-60 mph time in 2 seconds*.
Watch SpaceX Relaunch a Commercial Cargo Capsule for the First Time
UPDATE: SPACEX'S ISS resupply mission was scrubbed due to weather on June 1. The next launch window is Saturday, June 3, at 5:07 pm EST.
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