The PlasticRoad project of the Dutch company VolkerWessels is an intelligent way to transform non-biodegradable plastic waste. They are crushed and then compacted to create modular plates. Prefabricated in the factory, these plates are then assembled on site, as a construction game. These roads would have...
Engineers from Central Lancashire University (UCLan) helped by industrialists and Haydale Composite Solutions, a supplier of graphene, recently presented at the Futures Day event at the Farnborough Air Show 2018 air show a three-and-a-half-metre wide graphene skinned aircraft named JUNO. The wing, consists of a graphene...
Until now augmented reality devices have focused on adding visual elements to the real world.Bose, though, wants to add audio onto your world, doing so in a way that is essentially invisible to everyone else. Bose AR glasses are designed to look like ordinary glasses. Each...
What if we could go anywhere on Earth in under than one hour? This will maybe be possible thanks to Elon Musk's three brilliant ideas: Hyperloop capsules, tunnels and Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Passengers would be ferried to the "spaceport" via the Hyperloop system. They would then jump...
Yhnova: This house of 95m partially constructed by 3D printer is the first of its kind destined to be lived in by people as their main house. Its inauguration took place in Nantes On March 21st. Although other 3d house printed have been constructed across the world,...
A team of American researchers from the Autolab group, led by Ken Goldberg developed a robot with great dexterity. Called Dex-Net, this robot composed of a neural network, a high-resolution 3D sensor and equipped with two arms (one with a suction pad and the other a...
Thanks to Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk, flying taxis are getting closer ! The start-up has chosen New Zealand to test its product especially for its uncongested airspace. Named Cora, this autonomous vehicule, designed for two passengers is powered by 12-rotor plane-drone hybride and takes off...