A Vision for the Future of Aeronautics
Listen to Anna-Maria R. McGowan, who works on designing cutting-edge technology for air vehicles of the future as project manager for NASA’s Morphing Project, talk at TEDx.
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A Personal Submarine
Drivers often encounter wildlife along the road. But what if instead of the usual birds, deer, and squirrels, you could cruise alongside fish? That vision is now a reality with the electric submarine EGO, which literally puts you face-to-face with underwater wildlife.
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A Water-Powered Jet Pack
Jetlev, a new water-powered jet pack being piloted in Dania, Fla., has the potential to fly 30 feet in the air at 22 miles per hour, making it a lot more thrilling than a water slide or jet ski.
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Watson vs. The World
Brad Rutter, who holds the shows record for the most winnings at $3.25 million, and Ken Jennings, who holds Jeopardy’s longest winning streak of 74 games, bravely went up against a computer that can sort through several hundred million pages of information in seconds. Read more
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The Hamster-Powered Strandbeest
Watch as Princess’s new robo-suit delights young children and leaves one cat very confused.
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Inflatable Space Stations
NASA has endorsed the concept of inflatable habitats and Bigelow Aerospace has already built, tested, and launched prototypes, hoping to have the first fully-developed space station in orbit by 2015. Read more
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Meet Leland Melvin: Engineer and Astronaut
Many kids dream about flying into space one day, and countless others picture themselves being drafted onto a professional sports team. Amazingly, Leland Melvin has accomplished both. Read more
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Yuki-taro: the Cutest Snowplow Ever
Meet the self-guided robot Yuki-taro, which eats up snow and then excretes little snow-bricks.
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AutoFrost Puts the Icing on the Cake
Five students from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering have built a cake-decorating robot for a class project.
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Mapping the Brain with Supercomputers
The power of one supercomputer is similar to three football stadiums each filled with 100,000 people on laptops, all networked together solving the same problem.
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