High speed rail trains Europe

High speed rail trains Europe: "High speed high volume rail transportation has been a priority in a most of Europe for many years. The limited space has made it a necessity to move large numbers of people and goods quickly and economically between major European cities. "

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The best muscle cars and what they are worth

The best muscle cars and what they are worth: "Every boy, and a lot of girls growing up, have a dream car, or a special car that you think, one day your going to have one of those. You picture yourself driving down the road, you hear the noise of the engine, you know that you have the power to kick down the accelerator and it will throw you back into the seat, even if your already doing 80. "

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Mo Ventus house shoots for net zero with shifting screens and windsail design

Mo Ventus house shoots for net zero with shifting screens and windsail design: "Architects are increasingly designing houses which produce as much energy as they consume, which has led to a plethora of innovative sustainable homes, some conventional in design and some decidedly not. The Mo Ventus luxury house concept from Todd Theodore Fix of FIXd Architecture/Design falls squarely in the latter category, with plans that call for retractable screens that regulate heat and light, along with a curved design to harness wind power more efficiently."

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FireWriter prints images onto wood with a blowtorch

FireWriter prints images onto wood with a blowtorch: "For the most part, printing out an image on an inkjet printer is a pretty mundane task – unless you add fire of course. That's exactly what Lucien Langton, a student at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne), did when he built the FireWriter, a handheld printer that burns pictures onto wood with a torch, while an optical sensor keeps track of the image's positioning"

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U.S. Navy to deploy Laser Weapon System on warship

U.S. Navy to deploy Laser Weapon System on warship: "The U.S. Navy took a step farther away from John Paul Jones and closer to James T. Kirk as it announced that a solid-state laser weapon will be deployed on a U.S. Navy ship in fiscal year 2014. The announcement that the Laser Weapon System (LaWS) will deployed on board USS Ponce (AFSB[I] 15) two years ahead of schedule was made on Monday at the Sea-Air-Space exposition, National Harbor, Maryland. "

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Worlds biggest cruise ship

Worlds biggest cruise ship: "This is the latest ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean cruise lines. The Oasis of the seas. this ship is more that twice the size of the Queen Mary 2, and more than 5 times the size of the Titanic. The ship was designed and ordered long before the economy took the current downturn, back when it was booming."

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Navy Ships to Be Equipped With Cutting-Edge Lasers | Conservative ByteConservative Byte

Navy Ships to Be Equipped With Cutting-Edge Lasers | Conservative ByteConservative Byte: "The Pentagon has plans to deploy its first ever ship-mounted laser next year, a disruptive, cutting-edge weapon capable of obliterating small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles with a blast of infrared energy."

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NeroTrigger camera trigger is faster (and smarter) than your shutter finger

NeroTrigger camera trigger is faster (and smarter) than your shutter finger: "There's something undeniably cool about photos of high-speed blink-and-you-miss-it subjects like balloons mid-burst or flashes of lightning. But, unless you've got the reactions of an about-to-be-swatted fly, they can be tricky to take. Luckily, more and more remote triggers are cropping up which use sensors to ensure you always capture the moment, no matter how brief. The NeroTrigger is the latest such offering which incorporates light, sound and laser sensors, among other things."

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Trilogy helmet packs head protection for skiing, mountain climbing and biking

Trilogy helmet packs head protection for skiing, mountain climbing and biking: "Many sports require head protection, but not that many allow you to use interchangeable helmets. Every sport seems to have its own helmet designs and safety standards, so multi-sport enthusiasts end up spending hundreds of dollars on a closet full of helmets. Why can't a single helmet bridge the gap between sports? French manufacturer Cébé shows that it can, revealing a three-sport helmet that protects your head during mountaineering, skiing and biking."

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Revolights – now available built right into the wheel

Revolights – now available built right into the wheel: "Revolights are an innovative form of bicycle lighting, in which rings of LEDs are clipped onto a bike’s existing rims, essentially turning the wheels into head- and tail-lights. Now that the Kickstarter-funded system has reached production, its creators have decided to offer something else – wheels with built-in Revolights."

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First night time vertical landing for F-35B

First night time vertical landing for F-35B: "After making its first successful vertical landing in 2010 and the first at sea in 2011 – both in the clear light of day – an F-35B Lightning II last week completed the first short takeoff and vertical landing under cover of darkness."

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Researchers developing fusion rocket to slash travel time of Mars missions

Researchers developing fusion rocket to slash travel time of Mars missions: "Traveling through deep space is a hazardous undertaking and choosing the right engine can mean the difference between a fast, successful mission and a slow one with mounting dangers of radiation sickness, equipment failures and personal conflicts. A team of researchers from the University of Washington (UW) and Redmond, Washington-based MSNW are aiming to expand the options by developing a new fusion drive rocket engine that promises to make possible a manned spacecraft that could reach Mars and return to Earth in months rather than years."

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Things about Earth what are the fastest

Things about Earth what are the fastest: "There is something that is part of human nature that makes us want to go fast. Something that even small children feel that makes them want to go faster. It brings to mind something that happened this summer. We were tubing behind the boat and my 3 year old grand daughter wanted to try. She got on the tube with her dad. We were going at about 15 mph when her dad lost his balance and the tube flipped over on its side, he fell off."

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Online webcams to visit places you want to see

Online webcams to visit places you want to see: "One of the really amazing things about the internet, you can travel by webcam to places that you want to see, anytime you want. There are millions of webcams out there, "

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SpaceShipTwo's nitrous venting tested in-flight

SpaceShipTwo's nitrous venting tested in-flight: "Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo left terra firma for her 24th glide flight on Wednesday morning. The flight was the first in which the loading and venting of the ship's nitrous system was tested. Virgin Galactic described the flight as "another key milestone on the way to our first powered flight.""

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World's largest solar-powered boat returns to the oceans in the name of science

World's largest solar-powered boat returns to the oceans in the name of science: "The MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, took to the seas once more on Thursday – this time, in the name of science. Equipped with unique instruments, the Tûranor will carry a team of scientists who will monitor the air and water of the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf Stream, a current which influences the climates of North America's east coast and Europe's west. The goal is to gain understanding of the processes which regulate climate."

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Boeing completes preliminary design review of CST-100's Launch Vehicle Adapter

Boeing completes preliminary design review of CST-100's Launch Vehicle Adapter: "Boeing announced on Friday that the preliminary design review for the Launch Vehicle Adapter (LVA) for the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft has been successfully completed. This is the third milestone completed by Boeing under NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) agreement, the purpose of which is to develop a privately owned and operated U.S. replacement for the Space Shuttle to ferry crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS)."

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Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks

Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks: "A team of researchers working through Australia’s Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) has developed data encoding technology that increases the efficiency of existing fiber optic cable networks. The researchers claim their invention increases the data capacity of optical networks to the point that all of the world’s internet traffic could be transmitted via a single fiber."

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The Most Amazing Survival Story Ever

The Most Amazing Survival Story Ever: "This is a survival story to top all survival stories. It's about Ernest Shackleton and the Antarctic expedition he and his crew took on the Endurance. The plan was to sail to Antarctica, and cross the continent with sled dogs, it had never been done. The year was 1914, WW1 had just started, Shackleton was prepared to stay and fight but the government told him to go, the trip was set and paid for."

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Tattoo's and piercings

Tattoo's and piercings: "There are basically 3 types of body art.  Tattoo's, Piercings, and painting.  Of the 3 the painting is the newest and safest.  Piercings leave marks that can be permanent.  Tattoos are basically permanent.  "

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Captain Lou Albano wrestler and manager

Captain Lou Albano wrestler and manager: "There are probably a lot of people like me that got a flashback of old memories from the news of Captain Lou passing. When I heard he died, it brought back memories of growing up. From the time I first heard of Professional wrestling,"

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Build model Rockets you can fly

Build model Rockets you can fly: "When I was a kid, building and flying model rockets was one of my favorite things to do. My friends and I spent many hours building the model rockets, then taking them to the park and flying them. The best thing about model rockets then and now, the cost."

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Hennessey Venom GT claims fastest production car run of 265.7 mph

Hennessey Venom GT claims fastest production car run of 265.7 mph: "After the pomp and civility of the New York Auto Show, it’s nice for automotive manufacturers to take a break, get some air, visit the family, break 265 mph, hit the spa, etc. And so it would be that thousands of miles away on a bleak Californian airstrip, that some brave individual in a very much modified piece of machinery would hurtle himself down an airforce grade runway to a speed of 265.7 mph (426.7 km/h). This non-stock, please don’t-try-this-at-home event has now put the Hennessey Venom GT in the books as the fastest production car on the planet."

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Bubba Watson's hovercraft golf cart

Bubba Watson's hovercraft golf cart: "Want to be the envy of everyone on the golf course without actually improving your golfing skills? Then you just need to ride out onto the green in the BW1, the world's first hovercraft golf cart."

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Warp Factor | Popular Science

Warp Factor | Popular Science: "Last September, a few hundred scientists, engineers and space enthusiasts gathered at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Houston for the second public meeting of 100 Year Starship. The group is run by former astronaut Mae Jemison and funded by DARPA. Its mission is to “make the capability of human travel beyond our solar system to another star a reality within the next 100 years.”"

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Grizzly Robotic Utility Vehicle does the heavy-lifting, whatever the terrain

Grizzly Robotic Utility Vehicle does the heavy-lifting, whatever the terrain: "Canada-based robotics company Clearpath Robotics has unveiled the aptly-named Grizzly Robot Utility Vehicle: an unmanned four wheel drive robotic platform that promises to tackle the most demanding agricultural, mining, and defense tasks you can throw at it, whatever the terrain."

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Festo demonstrates BionicOpter dragonfly robot

Festo demonstrates BionicOpter dragonfly robot: "The dragonfly is quite the show off when it comes to flying. It can hover in mid-air, maneuver in all directions, and glide without so much as a beat of its wings. After succeeding in capturing the essence of a herring gull with the SmartBird, the folks over at German pneumatic and electric automation company Festo challenged themselves with the creation of a robotic addition to the dragonfly family – the BionicOpter."

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Pars aerial robot delivers a payload of life preservers to drowning victims

Pars aerial robot delivers a payload of life preservers to drowning victims: "f current technology trends are any indication, it's possible that human lifeguards could be replaced by robots in the future. So far, we've seen a remote-controlled rescue buoy and a salamander-like bot that travels on both water and land, among many others. Rather than having to cut through rough water to get to folks in trouble like many search and rescue robot designs, an Iranian research center proposes a quadcopter called Pars that launches from a floating platform and drops life preservers precisely where they're needed."

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Vibrating helmet designed to guide firefighters through smoke

Vibrating helmet designed to guide firefighters through smoke: "Firefighters can quite often find themselves in smoke-filled rooms, where it’s impossible to see more than a few inches in any direction. Not wanting those firefighters to run into walls, researchers at the University of Sheffield have created a prototype helmet that vibrates against the wearer’s forehead, letting them know the location of nearby obstacles."

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Glacier National Park by spease

Glacier National Park by spease: " have been to several national parks, this is my favorite. I wanted to share Glacier with everyone, this is a place that could possibly be the most beautiful place on earth. If you enjoy anything in nature, be it scenery, wildlife, waterfalls, mountains, or just the peace and tranquility of quiet and beauty, you need to visit Glacier national Park."

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Amazing Science Facts About The Earth

Amazing Science Facts About The Earth: "This is a collection of interesting facts and details about the Earth. You may or may not have heard or read about these facts before. There is something about reading interesting facts that you didn't know that makes you want to learn more."

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The 300 sparta warriors

The 300 sparta warriors: "This is about the battle of Thermopylae, The 300 Sparta warriors that fought and died there, and how that battle and their sacrifice changed the course of history and democracy for the world. There was a lot more significance to this battle than what most people know. The stand they took united Greece and led to the Greek concept of democracy being introduced to the world."

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