Thinking Tech

Archive: 06-2011

• Google’s self-driving car gets a green light from Nevada

  Last week, Nevada passed a bill that would create guidelines for the safe operation of “autonomous vehicles” aka robot cars.

  June 27, 2011, 1:45 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen

• Video: space station’s streaming webcam to let users spy on earthlings

  Little known UrtheCast is one-upping Google by providing customizable real-time, streaming HD video views of Earth.

  June 27, 2011, 12:41 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen

• Video: natural gas facility to be world’s largest floating object

  New gas mega-factories will be dedicated to efficiently extracting and processing more of it.

  June 24, 2011, 4:05 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen

• Will radical new flying machine replace helicopters?

  The D-Dalus is ultra-quiet, works swimmingly in harsh weather conditions and requires much less maintenance than helicopters.

  June 24, 2011, 1:47 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen

• Video: Hypersonic jet is heir to the Concorde and emission-free

  Meet the new heir to the Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde: the ZEHST concept plane, which can reach speeds of 3,125 miles per hour.

  June 23, 2011, 9:16 AM PDT | By Christie Nicholson

• Four easy-to-remember passwords that will protect you for life

  The recent security breach at the beloved online storage service, Dropbox, has reminded us of the weakness of the Web. Founded in 2007 Dropbox uses cloud computing to allow us to store all kinds...

  June 22, 2011, 11:46 AM PDT | By Christie Nicholson

• Video: Inventor builds homemade jetpack using cheap spare parts

  A scrappy inventor builds a low-tech water-powered jetpack. $99,500 price tag not included.

  June 20, 2011, 4:51 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen

• The Matrix reality: Scientists successfully implant artificial memory system

  It seems the sci-fi industry has done it again. Predictions made in novels like Johnny Mnemonic and Neuromancer back in the 1980s of neural implants linking our brains to machines have become a...

  June 17, 2011, 10:32 AM PDT | By Christie Nicholson

• Video: Can odd-looking ‘diwheel’ be electric vehicle of the future?

  The Electric Diwheel is neither a car or motorcycle. Instead, it functions by borrowing design principles from both.

  June 16, 2011, 2:32 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen

• Student invention may make road safer for bicyclists

  A clever warning device has the potential to prevent a majority of bicycle-related collisions.

  June 14, 2011, 1:34 AM PDT | By Tuan C. Nguyen