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The rear-view helmet

November 22, 2005 Seeing behind you on a motorcycle has always been a problem. Sometimes the mirrors vibrate, and sometimes they offer a terrific view of your
Aircraft

The first flying machine - the hot air balloon

Human flight turns 222 years old on Monday. The hot air balloon was the first sustainable form of flight, with the first passengers, (a sheep, duck, and rooste
Automotive

A new supercar and a new concept in motorsport entertainment

November 20, 2005 One of our favourite television shows, the BBC’s Top Gear, tests all the very fast road cars and it runs them around the same test circuit s
Automotive

Combination 2-stroke and 4-stroke engine

November 21, 2005 The 2/4SIGHT engine concept is based on an innovative combustion system combined with advanced valve train and control technologies, enabling
Automotive

The world's first widely-available armoured passenger vehicle

November 24, 2005 Our “Bloody Brilliant” Award for this week goes to Jaguar which has just announced a new Armoured XJ Long Wheelbase luxury saloon car. This
Automotive

Ferrari design contest winners

November 23, 2005 The winners of Ferrari's design contest 'New Concepts of the Myth' have been announced. Organised by Ferrari in conjunction with Pininfarina
Automotive

New “trybrid” car can run on three different energy sources - gas, electric and alcohol

January 14, 2005 Pioneering automotive company ZAP may well be embroiled in a legal battle with Daimler Chrysler’s smart, but it has not slowed the expansion o
Automotive

The turbocharger turns 100 years old this week

November 18, 2005 The turbo-charger , which has dominated the development of the internal combustion engine for the last 30 years, turned 100 years old this wee
Automotive

Formula One HANS device inspires Renault’s "Sleep Safe" head restraints

November 16, 2005 Over the last decade, the chance of surviving a serious crash in the front seats of a car has risen dramatically. So much so, that 70% of adu
Wearables

Shrewd digital and analogue watch

November 17, 2005 For ubergeeks, and presumably for children learning how to tell the time, the SHREWD is a symbiosis of LED analogue technology that looks f
Military

Thermobaric weapons under fire again

November 22, 2005 War is ugly and inhumane but seemingly inevitable - there are roughly 50 wars being fought somewhere on the planet at any given time and the
Aircraft

The modern hot air balloon

Ballooning went mainstream in 1960 when the Raven prototype ‘modern’ hot-air balloon demonstrated that man had finally found a cost-efficient, lightweight mater

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