Scientists from DARPA are planning to build a new type of helicopter which will feature a disc instead of blades. It will be called DiscRotor and it will act like a regular chopper, but it will faster as it could reach speeds of over 400 knots. The disc will feature a few blades that will [...]

As our dependence on fossil fuels will be reduced, we will need new ways of harnessing renewable energies. Actually, there are lots of ways to get energy - wind, solar, wave and tidal will replace oil in the future. The problem is that we have to find efficient and cheaper options to get power from [...]

What would you say if plants would grow in deserts? Actually, not plants, but entire crops for a big quantity of food and this is not all as this project developed by a team of engineers which also claim that the Sahara Forest Project will provide clean water in deserts.
The idea is not entirely new [...]

Here is an interesting concept wind turbine that could solve all the problems of conventional wind turbines. It’s small, beautiful, quiet and it catches winds from all directions. The conceptual wind turbine is called Natura Levo and it was designed by Laura Sink from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
The wind turbine can be installed on [...]

Ever since we found out that the speed of light is 300,000,000 meters per second, the human kind wanted to travel faster than the speed of light. Despite the fact that we never came close to reach this speed, two scientists, Associate Professor Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy, from Baylor are developing a technique that [...]

I would have never thought that there could be such thing as a camera for the blind people, but Chueh Lee from Samsung China proved me wrong. Here is world’s first camera for the visually impaired called the Touch Sight. It’s very easy to use as it features a system that records the sounds for [...]

If there is somebody who would like to be invisible then their dream can become true thanks to the researchers from the University of California Berkeley. The material that could make us invisible was demonstrated on very thin two-dimensional objects and the researchers managed to do it for the first time on three-dimensional objects.
Objects are [...]

This week was one of the busiest weeks of the summer as Google’s ex employees have just released a new search engine called Cuil, now we know for sure that there is water on Mars and Sir Richard Branson unveiled his White Knight Two which soon will take passengers into space.

Also this week, Sony released [...]

A partnership between Duke University and Boston College turned out to be very beneficial for the science world, as they obtained a metamaterial that absorbs all the light it gets (no, it doesn’t make things invisible), thus capable of generating more energy even than the solar cells.
It can’t be used as a camouflage, as it’s [...]

As solar power is harnessed with the help of tiny solar cells, it seems like wind power could be harvested using nano-scaled wind turbines. A Mexican designer named Agusting Otegui has came up with the Nano Vent-Skin which is a state of the art green wall.

This concept wall consists of “different kinds of micro organisms [...]