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This diagram shows positioning of side and curtain shield airbags, soon to be standard fitment on all Japanese Toyotas.

Automotive

All new Japanese Toyotas to have side-impact and curtain shield airbags

July 24, 2007 If you don’t die as a result of age or illness, today’s sad reality is that you’re most likely to be killed in a motor vehicle accident. Car manuf

Automotive

Auburn Speedster reborn

July 30, 2007 The Auburn automobile was among the most distinctive and beautiful cars ever built with its long hood, pointed boat tail and exceptionally eleg

Automotive

Mercedes-Benz unveils DiesOtto - the “future of the gasoline engine”

July 25, 2007 Don’t count out the petrol engine just yet according to motoring giant Mercedes-Benz, which has unveiled a new gasoline engine offering the high t

Games

Checkers “solved” using up to 200 computers at a time

August 8, 2007 After 18 years of work, Jonathan Schaeffer from the University of Alberta , has announced the completion of Chinook , a checkers playing progra

Boeing's Blended-Wing Body (BWB) X-48B prototype completed its first test flight last week. Photo courtesy of NASA.

Aircraft

Blended-Wing Boeing completes first test flight

July 30, 2007 The traditional airplane shape is well tried and tested, but manufacturers like Boeing are moving beyond the 'tube with wings and a tail' design i

Aircraft

Passenger plane design set to evolve in the name of efficiency and emissions control

July 31, 2007 The standard aircraft design with which we have all become so familiar throughout the 20th century is headed for the scrap heap. Despite its ubiqu

Singer's Futura CE250 sewing and embroidery machine

Around The Home

New Singer prints embroidery patterns straight from PC to fabric

July 26, 2007 The Singer company has a spectacular and storied history of firsts. Founded in 1851, the iconic company produced the world’s first portable sewi

An early CAD design of the Water Runner Robot, also showing the basilisk lizard's water-running leg motions.

Robotics

A robot that walks on water

July 27, 2007 The NanoRobotics team at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are working on a robot that walks on water, mimicking the Basilisk, or 'Jesus Lizard' th

The Ramphos flying boat with wheels - a true all-rounder.

Aircraft

Drive, float or fly? Your choice with the affordable Ramphos amphibious flying boat

August 1, 2007 With disposable income levels running high, expensive hobbies like aviation are coming within the reach of more and more people – and hobby pil

Magnetic Levitation wind power generator

Environment

Magnetic levitation promises huge efficiency gains in wind power generation

July 31, 2007 Sustainable generation of electric power is the key to realizing the vision of a world free from dependency on fossil fuels - the challenge is

Riva Racing's supercharger kit for the STX-15F turns the stock jet-ski into a race-ready, 300+hp monster.

Boats and Watersports

Supercharger performance kit pulls 300+ horsepower from Kawasaki jet ski

July 31, 2007 Any jet-ski boasting a stroked-out, 1500cc motor straight from the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R should be treated with extreme caution – but since the

Military

B-2 Bomber with Massive Penetrator weapon

July 23, 2007 Just how important does someone have to be to have their own 30,000 pound bomb delivered by a billion dollar aircraft? We'll soon know. We have wr

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