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May 10, 2016

Hyperloop firm shows off the magnetic tech that will help it move at 760 mph

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Very neat!


Here’s the first look inside a Hyperloop.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has released video of what it will look like to travel inside the Hyperloop.

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May 10, 2016

With This App, You Never Have To Carry Your Passport Again

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, transportation

You will never have to carry physical documents of your passport into the airport ever again. De La Rue, a Britain-based commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer, is working on a technology that can store “paperless passports” in smartphones.

This would act similar to mobile boarding cards, the Telegraph reported. “Paperless passports are one of many initiatives that we are currently looking at, but at the moment it is a concept that is at the very early stages of development,” a spokesman of the company was quoted as saying.

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May 8, 2016

General atomics railgun has successful tests which will lead to army truck based railgun system

Posted by in categories: electronics, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M3C6lrTkBXU

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) officials demonstrated its Blitzer electromagnetic railgun system at the U.S. Army’s Fires Center of Excellence annual Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX)last month at Ft. Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma.

There were eleven firings of the Blitzer railgun during the MFIX event, all at a target with a range that was greater than previous Blitzer firings. At the end of MFIX, GA-EMS’ Blitzer railgun system will be transported back to Dugway Proving Ground in Utah for more testing later this year.

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May 8, 2016

AI-On-A-Chip Soon Will Make Phones, Drones And More A Lot Smarter

Posted by in categories: computing, drones, mobile phones, robotics/AI, transportation, wearables

Movidius’ Myriad 2 vision processing chip (Photo: Movidius)

The branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning has given us new wonders such as self-driving cars and instant language translation on our phones. Now it’s about to injects smarts into every other object imaginable.

That’s because makers of silicon processors from giants such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc. as well as a raft of smaller companies are starting to embed deep learning software into their chips, particularly for mobile vision applications. In fairly short order, that’s likely to lead to much smarter phones, drones, robots, cameras, wearables and more.

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May 7, 2016

When 3D Printing Gets Into The Wrong Hands

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, habitats, transportation

Don’t tell Forbes; but I believe it is too late given that 3D Printing has already been available to be purchased for some time now. In 2012, for $15K or even $32K you could get a 3D Printer why several jewelry houses had them to mass produce custom jewelry, etc. based on your online order request.

I am just amazing that we haven’t seen mass production of drugs, and other weapons and black market items developed by Cartels, and other criminals.


It’s only a matter of time until 3D printing begins to revolutionize how things are made — the technology, for example, is already being used to produce airplane parts and medical devices. The 3D printing market is projected to jump from $1.6 billion in 2015 to $13.4 billion 2018, per research firm Gartner.

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May 4, 2016

China’s Deadly Advantage in Driverless Cars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Wonder what kind of insurance they have?


http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/art…ads-give-china-a-grim-edge-in-driverless-cars

Transport safety advances the same way physicist Max Planck saw science progressing: one funeral at a time.

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May 4, 2016

It’s Official: Japan Now has More Electric Car Charging Spots than Gas Stations*

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One of the first countries in the world to embrace modern electric cars, Japan has long been considered something of a shining example on how electric car rapid charging infrastructure should be implemented.

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May 3, 2016

Plane Will Be Both Truck and Bus | Video

Posted by in categories: space, transportation

Like a commercial jet airplane, Reaction Engines’ SKYLON will place a Personnel and Logistics Module in its payload bay, capable of carrying 8 astronauts and their gear to Low Earth Orbiting stations, factories, hotels or other facilities.

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html

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May 3, 2016

A Tesla Model S equipped with a robotic arm for your wheelchair [Video]

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space, sustainability, transportation

A Germany-based company, Paravan, is a leader in the electric wheelchair market and related accessories to adapt vehicles for people with disabilities. While they mostly work with vans and trucks, their latest product makes almost any car with enough trunk space extremely practical for someone using a wheelchair.

They installed it in a Tesla Model S to illustrate the functionalities of the product and the range of vehicles it can be installed on.

A robotic arm, called Robot 3000, can automatically lift a wheelchair (up to 25 kg – 55 lbs) from the trunk of a vehicle, then it moves the chair to the driver’s side and extends it all the way to the driver’s door.

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May 3, 2016

School’s in session — Nvidia’s driverless system learns

Posted by in categories: computing, robotics/AI, transportation

After spending 72 hours watching human drivers, Nvidia’s GPU-based computers were able to construct a road-worthy driverless car system.

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