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You don't need an iconic design guru like Jony Ive to come up with all the design ideas, but you do need to be prepared to take a new look at things and make the most of the materials available.
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It is no great disclosure to say I am a governor of a local secondary school, but perhaps I should be honest about my own love of new technology, electronics and gadgetry of all kinds. As a post-modern, dyed in the wool geek, I do sometimes - okay, often - have a habit of getting excited about such shiny things, looking for uses where perhaps none exist.
Engineers at Aeronvironment (AV) of Monrovia, California, have demonstrated the world's first successful flight of the smallest ever self-powered, rudderless, aircraft with flapping wings.The nano air vehicle (NAV) is modeled after a large insect or small bird, such as a hummingbird.
On Thursday, the non-profit Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it was going to host the Moblin project which aims to develop mobile Linux-based applications.Moblin was a project under development by Intel which has effectively handed control over to the Linux Foundation.
The biggest issue facing Tom Hogan, the senior vice president of HP’s software division, could well be avoiding smugness. Not that Hogan seems to be a smug man or that HP is a smug company.
You all know that most species of animals can fly -- but not humans. There are more than a million species of flying insects, but do you know that among the 13,000 warm-blood vertebrate species (which include birds and mammals), about 10,000 of them are able to fly (9,000 birds and 1,000 bats)? Many of them have millions of years of experience, and aerospace engineers are trying to learn from birds, bats and insects to design very efficient micro flapping-wing aircraft for the U.S. Air Force to be used as surveillance tools. Natural flyers are much more efficient than man-made aircraft, states one aerospace engineer at the University of Michigan (U-M), who adds that 'natural flyers obviously have some highly varied mechanical properties that we really have not incorporated in engineering.' But read more...
Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, such as the X-51A aircraft being built by Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, should start to fly in 2009. And if everything goes according to plan, missiles flying at Mach 6 could be deployed by 2015. But designing such planes is not so easy. This is why Purdue University engineers have developed the only wind tunnel capable of running quietly at 'hypersonic' speeds. The Purdue engineers say that this 'quiet wind tunnel operation is critical for collecting data to show precisely how air flows over a vehicle's surface in flight' at hypersonic speeds. But read more...
Dutch engineering students have developed RoboSwift, a bio-inspired morphing-wing micro aerial vehicle which flies like a swift. Like the real bird, this robotic one "will have unprecedented wing characteristics; the wing geometry as well as the wing surface area can be adjusted continuously." But unlike the real bird, RoboSwift, which will have a span of 50 cm and weigh about 80 grams, has been designed to spy on us. With its three micro cameras, it will perform surveillance missions lasting up to one hour on vehicles and people on the ground. The first RoboSwift is expected to fly in January 2008.
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