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Photos: Commuter challenge in the skies

This weekend, NASA held its first Personal Aircraft Vehicle PAV Challenge, a test of experimental small-seat airplanes with a prize purse of $250,000.This weekend, NASA held its first Personal Aircraft Vehicle PAV Challenge, a test of experimental small-seat airplanes with a prize purse of $250,000. The contestants were all flying...

Tags: Monitors & displays, photograph, Cafe Foundation, Personal Aircraft Vehicle, Personal Aircraft Vehicle Challenge, flight simulation, purse, daylight, terrain, assortment, lamp, biodiesel, cabin, pass, aircraft, team, touch screen, USB, banking, Amazon.com Inc., mo

Image galleries 2007-08-14

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A different 'spin' on flying cars

A company in Australia is developing a flight technology that allows for compact Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTOL using a type of fan system to move air that is commonly found in central heating/cooling systems. [caption id="attachment_1525" align="alignleft" width="245" caption="Entecho's Hoverpod"][/caption] Entecho is using...

Tags: Car, Joystick, Skirt, Entecho Hoverpod, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-05-04

(Photos: Terrafugia's flying car flies)

(Photos: Terrafugia's flying car flies)Terrafugia?I'm geeky enough to appreciate the latin, but that name sucks. It's too geeky even for a geek.This is pretty cool, but there is no way I'd subject it to road driving with the morons I dodge on a daily basis. Can you imagine the...

Tags: Terrafugia, car, car fly, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

Cadillacs recalled over software bug

General Motors issued a recall for almost 13,000 Cadillac CTS vehicles, due to a software bug in the airbag sensor. Transportation-related software problems happen all the time. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration NHTSA lists details: GM is...

Tags: Software, General Motors Corp., Software Bug, Software Problem, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...

Tags: space elevator, Virgin Galactic, architecture spaceship, SpaceShipTwo

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Can personal aircraft beat gridlock?

Can personal aircraft beat gridlock?Great concept, and...The challenge goes far beyond the technology of the vehicle on which the system is based. The key will be how the system is implemented to improve the existing model.On the plus side, the infrastructure changes required would spark significant innovation and rethinking of...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, traffic jam, aircraft

Discussion threads 2007-08-04

2007: The year of the dashboard

The mainstream trend tracking magazine Newsweek suggested that 2007 will be the year of the widget, at the same instant that Time appoint "You" the person of the year. But widgets is too limited to have its own year; it seems to similar to the year of the locust. Widgets...

Tags: General, IT Management, Web Technology, dashboard

Blog posts 2007-01-25

Microsoft shifts gears for the Live era

Now that the Vista and Office 2007 delay is old news, every corner of the tech industry is speculating about the meaning of the Microsoft reorganization. It's basically people shuffling, realigning existing players with Microsoft's evolving and restated mission, articulated most recently in Kevin Johnson's (co-president of Platforms & Services)...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-03-23

Dangerous legal loophole in child-porn prosecutions under review

Dangerous legal loophole in child-porn prosecutions under reviewBeing accused is all it takes.Innocent or guilty have little to do with the fact that simply being accused can and often does ruin a person's life.The zealotry of "getting the scum" far outweighs common sense in moving ahead in such cases. ...

Tags: child pornography

Discussion threads 2005-09-22