World's First
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Sweden’s Green City Ferries is preparing to launch what it claims is the world’s first “supercharged” electric passenger ferry. Carrying 100 passengers between Solna Strand and Gamla Stan, the zero-emissions 'Movitz' will need just 10 minutes to charge its batteries between 1-hour long service runs.
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ScienceA team of researchers at the University of Texas At Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have created the worlds first one-way acoustic circulator, a device which controls the direction of sound waves, allowing the user to hear without being heard.
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LG has fired the latest salvo in its ongoing TV battle with Samsung by unveiling of an OLED TV with a changeable curvature at CES. LG's Flexible OLED TV is a 77-inch unit that lets users control the angle of curvature via their remote control.
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Solid Concepts has used a laser sintering method to create a fully functional Model 1911 automatic pistol, demonstrating 3D printing as a serious industrial process rather than a way of making blobby plastic key fobs.
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While bicycle sharing schemes are now commonplace in the world's major urban centers, the city of Barcelona in Spain is giving the idea a jolt by adding electrification to the equation. The scheme called Motit was launched this European summer with a trial run that includes 50 all-electric scooters.
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Michigan-based Sintercore is billing its Auxetik as the first commercial 3D printed firearm muzzle brake. Made of Inconel alloy using a laser additive manufacturing process, the Auxetik is designed to tame the recoil and muzzle rise of AR-15 pistols chambered for .223 caliber rounds.
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NEC's Medias X N-06E is the world’s first water-cooled smartphone.
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The Hälssen & Lyon tea calendar is a real calendar made from real tea, with each date consisting of a square of compressed tea leaves.
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The Mammuth Rewarron RC car by Mammuth Works is built to 1:3 the scale of a real car, and boasts a top speed of around 70km/h (45 mph).
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Samoa Air has become the first airline in the world to charge passengers based on their weight.
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Professional skier and rally driver Guerlain Chicherit has combined his two areas of expertize to become the first person in the world to perform an unassisted backflip in a in a Mini Countryman.
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Microchip Technologies has developed the world's first gesture recognition chip based on measuring changes in a 3D electric field.
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