Future eco-friendly airplanes to resemble UFOs?

Label: Design Concepts, Technology Apparently, flying saucers are the future of eco-friendly vehicles. Who knew? While highways being full of hover saucers might not be happening anytime soon, some aeronautical engineers envision airports loading passengers up into flying saucers and sending them off into the air. Apparently, the age of tube aircraft with wings is coming to an end.Right now air travel accounts for 3% of carbon emissions worldwide, but that figure stands to rise to 5% if planes aren't redesigned to be more efficient. Apparently, ditching the wings and throwing flying saucers into the air will help do that. I'm no scientist,...

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The Telepathic Helmet

Label: Gadgets, Technology The days of keeping your thoughts to yourself may be numbered, as scientists in Switzerland have begun developing a machine that can actually read minds. Adapting the same thought-reading technology that allows paralysis victims to type with their brains, the Swiss managed to go a few steps further, creating a helmet that's, uh, totally mental.The Telepathic Helmet picks up the thoughts of the wearer, sending them to a computer, which writes them out on the monitor. Although the technology isn't perfect — using it while hungry leads to stray thoughts about food getting jumbled in, apparently — it represents a big...

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The Emotions Jacket

Label: Gadgets, Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands - The Emotions Jacket is a research platform that uses the sense of touch to take the cinematic experience to new levels, allowing viewers to experience the intense emotions felt by characters on-screen. While other viewing enhancement techniques focus primarily on audio and visual aspects, the Emotions Jacket instead stimulates the biggest, our heaviest and most sensitive sense; the human skin. This exploration is part of Philips’ wider ‘sensory experiences’ program.Over the years, there have been many developments which have made the TV viewing experience more immersive. Examples include...

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Super Sexy Bathroom

Label: Home Appliances, Technology It’s always about the future, and in the future you guys are going to realize the need of doubling up your interior spaces by adding more than one function to a room. Like, you may want your bathroom to double up as a gym when you’re not taking a bath. So how about you get the Roca Active & Relax Bathroom? It’s this luxurious room where the sunken bath is really sunken, invisible till you don’t open up the floorboards. No windows too, instead 3 floor-to-ceiling LCDs giving you the illusion of a panoramic view.Still not satisfied? How about we give you a bathroom where the screens are connected to the Home...

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Tesla S Cars

Label: Otomotif, Technology The long-awaited sedan Tesla S - history's first electric car that can flourish in the fast lane, which should go into mass production.According to Tesla Motors, is expected to produce annually up to 20 thousand such vehicles, though not on the mass price: the love of clean technologies will cost big bucks, from 50 thousand dollars.For this price is expected to sell a basic version that is capable, without charge up to 260 km, but the more "advanced" options and can handle the 370 and even 480 miles, that is nothing less than a conventional car rides on a single tank. These indicators provide an array of 8 thousand...

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Ford F-650 Land Rover or Hummer

Label: Otomotif, Technology You think SUVs steeper Land Rover or Hummer can not be? Mistaken. 200 thousand dollars - and your service Alton F-650 XUV with 7.2-liter engine, audio system with 42 speakers, plasma panel, parquet (!) Sex and so on ...Manufactured by Alton Truck Manufacturing-based pickup Ford F-650 large and luxurious SUV Alton F-650 XUV was presented to the public at the Chicago Auto Show - 2008. Can say with certainty: sitting in a car, you can even owners of large and expensive SUVs Hummer and Porsche take kids.7.2-liter engine Alton F-650 XUV is powered fuel tank almost 100 hp and develops the power to 230 hp, which, however,...

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