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10 Screenshots from Musk’s Open Source Tube Transport System: The Hyperloop

January 1, 2015January 1, 2015 Pooja Kashyap

Elon Musk’s concept of travelling through conduits has started making progress. His research company, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has already gathered over 100 engineers and is working along crowd collaboration approach. Musk, the inventor, engineer and entrepreneur, envisions developing ultra speed, intercity transporter using a low-pressure tube train, which would run at a speed of 760 mph. Each capsule would carry 6-8 passengers and depart after every 30 seconds. As per him, the project, Hyperloop, would touch completion within seven to ten years. Due to his current commitment with SpaceX,…

Hyperloop is crossing the threshold of a Pipe Dream: Elon Musk’s 760mph Supertube

December 23, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Last year, Elon Musk, the Tony Stark of our real world when surfaced his futuristic concept of human transportation at the speed of sound via pods, some of the people, who doubted his abilities considered it no more than a figment of imagination, which was far from becoming a reality. However, Musk, the man behind PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, showed an air of seriousness for his pipe dream. In order to herald a revolution in travel industry, bypassing the traffic and the railroad project, he created a new firm by…

Silicon Chip that mimics Nature’s Gene: A Step towards Artificial Cells

December 13, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel have come up with a silicon chip that can mimic a human cell in producing proteins from DNA. The most basic function of cell is to produce proteins after receiving instructions in the form of DNA sequences. Other genes determine production of the quantity of churning out protein by a complex process involving feedback loops.

Automated Valet Parking and Charging for e-Mobility: A Smart Car System

December 11, 2014December 11, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

A research conglomerate in Europe is about to finish a futuretech project involving an autonomous car dropping passengers at a railway station and then getting itself parked by identifying an empty spot and later picking up its commuter again. V-Charge is the name of the project that not only helps in commuting, parking but also includes charging up of the automobiles, autonomously. However, the mobility during the entire operation would be slow, so that the sensors may decipher the surrounding accurately.

Polymer that Mimics Sensory Capabilities of Real Skin: The New Smart Skin

December 10, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Even the most cutting edge technology in prosthetic limbs cannot identify the sensory capabilities of real skin. Although, its manipulation and controls are done with the help of attached muscles and brain yet there have been no way out for detecting the coldness or hotness of a glass its holding. Neither can the wearer detect whether a glass is slipping out of its appendage’s grasp. However, things would no more be the same now, for prosthetics. Korean researchers in collaboration U.S. experts have fabricated an innovative polymer that mimics not…

Nanobuds based Bendable and Flexible Touch Sensor: Touch Screens to New Applications

December 8, 2014December 11, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

A Finnish startup, Canatu, has come up with a touch sensor based on transparent films that are fabricated from carbon nanobuds (CNB). What’s interesting about the (CNB based) innovative sensors is that they can be adjusted and can be turned on any surface irrespective of its background shape. For instance, it could be applied on the touch controls of curved surface of automobile dashboard or any gaming consoles or play stations.

Paperless Workplace Powered only by Wind and Water: Office Banned Toilet Roll

December 5, 2014December 4, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Imagine an office day without paper, difficult, isn’t it. It is indeed but for Netherlands based company, Decos’, it is nothing but any other regular day. Decos’ is the world’s first firm that has nothing to do with paper; yes this includes washrooms as well.

Aircraft with Panoramic Pods: Passengers to share Pilot’s Eye View

December 4, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Ever wondered how it would feel to sit in a cockpit while the plane is gliding through the clouds high above. Especially, imagining a view that only pilot’s are privileged to see is one of my most cherished dreams. I have always given a thought over it even when am not within a plane. Watching a plane from below have always struck me with the idea as of how would it feel for the person(s) who are steering the huge machine above.

World’s First Rope-Free Maglev Elevator System: The Z-Axis Travel

December 4, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

In an effort to reduce or make walking time obsolete, elevators are going to have an overall overhauling. Based on the technology of magnetic levitation, the revamped elevators would then be able to go sideways as well. By 2016, ThyssenKrupp AG, a German multinational conglomerate corporation is coming up with the two-axis travel that will usher the era of Maglev elevators within an intra-building infrastructure.

Human Waste to morph into Rocket Fuel: Methane powered Spacecrafts

November 27, 2014November 27, 2014 Neha Shukla

A research team from the University of Florida has found a way to transform human waste into something as useful as a rocket fuel. Until now the waste produced during space missions were stored which was later burnt while entering Earth’s atmosphere, when the space cargo vehicle loaded with waste returns. However, between 2019 and 2024, NASA plans to build an operating base on moon for initiating future long-term space missions that would require a way to cut down the weight of spacecraft leaving Earth. Clearly, neither dumping waste on…

Chevy transfers the Chaparral 2X Vision Gran Turismo concept to the Physical World: Future of Racing Cars

November 21, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Nissan rolled out the imaginary concept of Gran Turismo 6 beast from the virtual arena into the real world around June 2014. Now it seems, Chevrolet too is trying to move in the same direction. Lately, at the LA International Auto Show, Chevy came out with its Chaparral 2X Vision Gran Turismo (VGT).

Nanoreactor developed for Discovering New Chemical Reactions: Virtual Chemistry Set

November 18, 2014November 18, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

In order to replicate ecosystem and chemical origin of life, Stanley Miller, under the supervision of Harold Urey, performed the breakthrough Urey-Miller experiment in 1952. The experiment initiated more than 20 major molecules that form the integral part of life. A team of researchers at Stanford believes that they can do one-step better.

Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Chip: Machine starts Thinking

November 12, 2014November 11, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Human brain mechanics has always been one of the most fascinating subjects for neuroscientists all across the globe. Many simulators and robots have been designed by mimicking neurons and synapses, yet the efficiency of brain has not yet thoroughly touched upon so far.

Phones to borrow Bandwidth from nearby Gizmos: Device-to-Device Networking

November 11, 2014November 11, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

By the beginning of 2015, 21Vianet, China’s largest internet provider, is looking forward to launch a cellular phone network that aims to offer downloads at relatively faster rate.

Nanodiamonds to be used for Delivering Drugs and Cancer Therapeutics: New Imaging Modality

October 30, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Capturing ongoing processes within living cells in real time is usually done with fluorescent dyes made up of a fluorescent chemical compound, fluorophore. The compound’s unique property of re-emitting light upon excitation makes it the most deserving candidate for imaging cellular processes, however, with the passage of time, the compound becomes toxic thereby renders havoc to the cells in close proximity.