Showing posts with the label Engineering

Behind the Scenes at Particle Physics Labs

Dec 21, 2010

In August, 2010, 200 amateur photographers had the opportunity to walk into the top five particle physics laboratories in four countries and...

The Abandoned Remains of the Superconducting Super Collider

Dec 14, 2010

Long before the Large Hadron Collider was even sketched out on paper, the US Department of Defense embarked on an ambitious project of crea...

Hövding Bicycle Helmet is Invisible and Fashionable

Nov 21, 2010

Each of these models in the image gallery below is wearing a helmet. Can you see it?

Tiger Stone, The Incredible Road Building Machine

Nov 19, 2010

This awesome piece of machinery feeds on cobblestones and lays them out in an interlocking pattern to build roads that would take hours to d...

Robot Babe Dance at the Digital Content Expo 2010

Oct 24, 2010

When the HRP-4C a humanoid robot made her debut  in March 2009 it made news and grabbed headlines. Now the HRP-4C created at the Japanese Na...

Bagger 288: The Biggest, Meanest Machine in the World

Oct 1, 2010

The Bagger 288, also known as the Excavator 288, is the largest digging machine in the world. It was built by the German company Krupp for t...

Designers Create World’s First Spray On Cloth

Sep 17, 2010

Extra tight, figure hugging clothes had just become easier to obtain. A Spanish fashion designer has developed the world's first spray-o...

In Memory of Spirit, the Mars Rover

Feb 4, 2010

Spirit, the first of the two rovers NASA sent to explore Mars, landed successfully on January 4, 2004 and went on to function spectacularly ...

Trampe – The bicycle lift of Trondheim, Norway

Dec 6, 2008

Trondheim of Norway is the first and only city in the world with a lift specifically designed for cyclists. This bicycle lift called Trampe,...

Green Energy - The Amazing Solar Tower of Seville

Sep 11, 2008

Located in the Andalusian countryside of Southern Spain, near Seville, is a giant 115 meter high concrete tower surrounded by a field of 624...