Orbital Laboratory Tour / Space Station Commander Sunita Williams (NASA)
November 19, 2012: In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz […]
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VC1 (Volocopter) / e-volo
On October 21st, 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an electric multicopter, the so called volocopter VC1, at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted 90 seconds, after which the constructor and test pilot stated: “The flight characteristics are good natured. Without any steering input it would […]
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The X-47B aboard USS Harry S. Truman
We usually don’t prefer to publicize and showcase death machines but we’re continually intrigued by technology and remain huge aircraft enthusiasts. DARPA‘s latest creation and Navy toy, the Northrop Grumman X-47B, is an aircraft carrier-based unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV). On November 26, 2012, the X-47B began its carrier-based evaluation aboard the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) at Naval...
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Fruit and Vegetable MRIs / Andy Ellison (Inside Insides)
Andy Ellison is an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) technologist at Boston University Medical School. He runs a research only Philips 3 Tesla MRI and has been posting animated GIFs of scans of fruits and vegetables at his blog Inside Insides. Produce was scanned to properly calibrate the equipment, the by-product and result is artful and […]
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View Suspended II – Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Deconstructed / Paul Veroude
…Dutch artist Paul Veroude has made it very easy for you to find out what’s inside one of these speedy vehicles. Using a Mercedes GP Petronas F1, driven by renowned race car driver Michael Schumacher, the artist deconstructed the 2010 model and suspended each piece, right down to the nuts and bolts. Weighing just over […]
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Iris (Interactive Media Canvas) / Hybe
IRIS is a unique media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology – a monochrome LCD. Through the phased opening and closing of circular-segmented black Liquid Crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights. IRIS is an interactive medium for visual simplicity which uses the passage of ambient […]
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Space Shuttle Endeavour LA Trek Time Lapse Video / Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times and Bryan Chan: Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour’s trek across L.A. The space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey last weekend, traveling 12-miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park. The retired orbiter was carried through city streets atop a special transporter. Throngs […]
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Mission Accomplished: 128,100 ft Jump / Felix Baumgartner x Red Bull Stratos
After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane. Felix reached a maximum of speed of 1,342.8 km/h […]
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Peugeot Onyx Concept Car
French automaker Peugeot recently unveiled its Onyx concept at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. The recently troubled car manufacturer has seen its stock fall 57 percent since the beginning of the year, when it announced an alliance with General Motors to share parts and cut costs but it’s attempting to make a bid at a comeback with […]
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Brooklyn Nets’ Barclays Center Tour
It took nine years and some 35 court battles to build the billion-dollar stadium, which is wrapped in a sci-fi grid of tarnished metal plates that vary in size to give the entire building an oddly organic feel — as though it grew out of Brooklyn’s industrial past. The Nets won’t play their first home […]
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Panoramic Aerial Tour of the Pyramids / AirPano
Arabian proverb says, “Everything in the world is afraid of time, and time is afraid of the pyramids”. In the end of this year we would like to invite our visitors to have a bird-eye view of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt – the only one of “Seven Wonders of the World” which […]
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Saline Airstream / Institut Supérieur de Design
The Saline Airstream is designed for Les Triplettes de Bonneville. It is designed by students, Pierrick Huart, Vincent Montreuil, Thomas Duhamel, Julien Clément and Benoît Ponton of the Institut Supérieur de Design, in Valenciennes, France. The bike is powered by a MDI compressed air engine and the frame is made of aluminum and magnesium alloy. […]
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