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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