Agricultural Sandblasting in the Age of Recycling You might be asking yourself, what does recycling have to do with sandblasting? And what does sandblasting have to do with agriculture? Historically speaking (since at...
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Sarah Simonovich
The Torch That Uses Diesel Fuel to Cut Steel
New technology has allowed for diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, and military JP fuels to be burned at such high temperatures, that the fuels are capable of cutting straight through steel. Introducing the Petrogen Multi-Fuel...
Matthew Blockus
The FNR: Chevy’s Futuristic, Self-Driving Car
Chevrolet has recently unveiled the prototype concept for its self-driving vehicle, the FNR, at the 2015 Shanghai auto show held annually in the Chinese city. Designed by General Motors’ Pan Asia Technical...
Google’s Driverless Car to Possibly Add External Airbag
Driverless cars are slowly but surely becoming a reality. Just last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced that the company was bringing an autopilot-like feature to their Model S vehicles. However, one of the...
First Flying Cars to Begin Rolling (Flying) Out in 2016
Some people have been waiting all their lives to see a flying car. Not only is the technology behind a flying automobile already real, but it is also already on sale. Today, for a mere $279,000, you can purchase the...
Thought-Controlled Drones Are Now A Reality
Robotics and neuroscience are two fields that tend to have groundbreaking new developments when something major is discovered. However, when you merge both into a single discovery, you get planes that are controlled...
The Machine That Converts Plastic Into Oil
For years, one Japanese man has been hard at work creating a machine that will convert one of our society’s most common items back into the oil from which it was made. Akinori Ito, the CEO of Japanese company...
The New Manufacturing Method To Drastically Improve Aircraft Design
Advanced manufacturing technologies are quite literally reshaping the face of aviation. Aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney is currently developing two techniques to create engine parts that they call additive...
The World’s Largest Ship That Can Move Oil Rigs
Move over Titanic. There’s a new supersize ship making waves that everybody should soon become familiar with. Enter the Pieter Schelte, the world’s current largest ship, which can pull decommissioned oil...
The Petrobot Project
In an ever-progressing chain of developments designed to make the dirty work of oil production more safe and efficient, an ongoing project helmed by Shell is currently experimenting with new methods to change the way...