Theme Building: More Than Meets the Eye
DIY A veteran of costume contests, attorney Greg Adler outdid himself with the eight-foot costume of Bumblebee from the movie Transformers that he built to win the $7,500 prize… A veteran of costume...
View ArticleDARPA Spills Details on its Plans for the Transformer TX Flying Car
Technology The Pentagon agency hopes to have a $43 million VTOL SUV in the air by 2015 DARPA didn't reveal much at first about its "Transformer TX" program aimed at developing a flying car for the...
View ArticleFour-Ton Transformer Tribute to Ancient Chinese General Meshes History and...
Technology In the U.S., we often complete the run-up to graduation by writing 25 pages of extremely dry thesis that is typically read and appraised by a single person before being… In the U.S., we...
View ArticleVideo: "Smart Sheets" Can Self-Assemble Into Airplanes, Boats
Technology Scientists at MIT and Harvard have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats. It's a far cry from previous… Scientists at MIT...
View ArticleWhen The Sun Unleashed Its Recent Plasma Blast, Earth Got Lucky
Science What a predicted 2013 blast from the sun could mean for the U.S. On Tuesday, the biggest solar flare in four years erupted from the sun, sending a mass of charged particles hurtling towards...
View ArticleA Shape Shifting Power Tool For All Your Slicing Needs
Gadgets Over the past five years, 12-volt battery-powered tools have been rapidly replacing their corded counterparts. Among these upgrades, the Rockwell Trans4mer merges the… Over the past five...
View ArticleThis Guy Turned A Ford Fiesta Into Optimus Prime
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View ArticleA Robotic Suit Good Enough To Deceive A Decepticon
Gadgets Gear up with this big boy for the upcoming _Transformers _movie Marc De Repentigny was only trying to be responsible when he built an 80-pound, seven-foot-tall motorized Transformers suit....
View ArticleNASA Is Seriously Considering Terraforming Part of the Moon With Robots
Space The robots shall inherit the moon Announced yesterday, NASA is moving ahead with funding to study several ambitious space research projects, including one that would transform an inhospitable...
View ArticleBoeing Patented A Drone That Flies, Submerges, And Swims
Military More than meets the eye For the Navy, flying robots just aren’t enough anymore. To truly fulfill the maritime combat branch's mission, designers are making unmanned flying machines that can...
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