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Flying Car has been a dream of many people for lot of years and many company are working on making it possible. Think about a flying Car which can take off without runaway. Now a Arizona based start-up called Krossblade Aerospace Systems is thinking of making it possible. Krossblade has come out a concept of a SkyCruiser that will act as a car, airplane and helicopter. Skycruiser is a 5-seat hybrid VTOL transformer plane with an ability to drive on road also. While the concept has been in developing mode, therefore company is coming out with a miniature unctioning prototype called 'SkyProwler'. VTOL, vertical take off and landing give it a power to take off from anywhere and land it anywhere. To fly it fast it has to be aerodynamically clean therefore it is made narrow, somewhat drop-shaped with only few things sticking out. Working: SkyCruiser in normal mode is pushed along by two 150 bhp electric motors in the tail, which is then switched to set of four rotors arm fro

– A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as "plasmonic metamaterials" for advanced technologies. The metamaterials have engineered surfaces that contain features, patterns or elements on the scale of nanometers that enable unprecedented control of light and could bring innovations such as high-speed electronics, advanced sensors and solar cells. The new method, called laser shock imprinting, creates shapes out of the crystalline forms of metals, potentially giving them ideal mechanical and optical properties using a bench-top system capable of mass producing the shapes inexpensively. The shapes researchers created include nanopyramids, gears, bars, grooves and a fishnet pattern, and are too small to be seen without specialized imaging instruments and are thousands of times thinner than the width of a human hair. The re

The Seattle-based Startup has developed a process called Modumetal  that can increase the strength of metals like steel ten times, and will make it more resistant to corrosion. The process is really inexpensive and if the modified metal can pass field testing, it will find it uses in many applications like building bridges and other infrastructure last longer, and making light weight and fuel efficient cars and plane. The company has been in  collaboration with oil companies like Chevron, Conoco-Philips, and Hess. The parts has been tested in some oil fields. Hydrogen Sulphide, found in some Oil is very corrosive and damage production equipment, but with the help of this new technology those parts may last longer and thus will reduce the cost of oiling. Modumetal is based on the fact of controlling the materials at a nanoscale that can change the properties of a materials. CEO Christina Lomasney has said that hte process costs same as that for a galvanization. It is just a advanced

See far distance just by winking your eyes. A team of engineers have designed a telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnefied vision.  The Researchers at  San Jose, California has built a prototype pf lens that could one day help people with visual impairment  to see. The lenses might be particularly useful with age-related macular degeneration, a debilitating condition in which people gradually lose their central vision. It is the leading cause of visual impairment and affect millions worldwide. The contact lens developed by Ford’s team is one millimeter thick. Researchers used aluminum mirrors, fit tightly together, to create a ring-shaped telescope embedded in the contact lens. The center of the lens allows for normal, non-magnified vision.  Its periphery, where the telescope is located, magnifies images 2.8 times. Switching between normal and magnefied vision Without the glasses, the contact lenses superimpose both normal and magnified images. With

At the University of Rochester, New York State, Mehul Malik and his colleagues has developed a new radar systems that uses the Quantum properties of photons to create an unjammable radar signal. This radar technology will able to see the stealth plane in air and can locate it. Stealth plane uses the technology that jams the radar signal, like drowning the radar frequency with noise or dropping chaff to create a false reflection. Unlike conventional radar systems, the quantum radar can't be fooled. It works on the principle that any jamming system must modify the radar's polarised photon signal at a quantum level in order to generate a false image, with that alteration identifiable by sensors. If the target aircraft is incapable of jamming the quantum radar's signal, then a true image of it is received by the radar sensors, with invalidity confirmed by the low number of statistical errors in the photon's quantum properties. Working a quantum radar In the first

Pollution in China is at its worst, so the team of designers at Hong Kong has come with a incredible idea to filter air in the big cities like Hong Kong. Designers have built a winged 'parasitic' drone that come out at night, suck pollution and capture energy from the neon light and use the energy to grow a forests of small air-purifying plants at their back. The drone will suck carbon-dioxide through a carbon-adsorbant polymer paint and will use the heat from the neon to heat up the polymer to a temperature that would release the CO2. The CO2 will be used to help the air purifying plants grow at the back of the robot wings which will act as miniature farm. The design has been named as a NAS-DRA. They will be producing a new source of renewable energy. At the daytime , they will perch on building, with their wings open so that the carbon absorbing polymer paint can suck up carbon dioxide. The organic waste generated from these plants could be then converted into biogas, an

China  is planning to mine moon for helium-3 fusion fuel. After the successful  lunar probe Chang ‘e ,china is going a bit ahead. Chang’e mission was very successful  for china to explore moon, but now with the Chang 5, china will bring the first sample of fusion-ready helium-3. Helium-3  is best to be used as a fuel in nuclear fusion as no neutrons is generated as a reaction product. The protons generated will have some charge which can be controlled and contained using electromagnetic  fields. Moon has said to have a depot of atleast 5 million tons of helium-3 on its top surface level,  whereas earth rarely have it. But it is still a lot of year ahead and it will be very difficult to do it  and will require a lot of manwork .

Mercedes-Benz has come out with a concept car that will generate energy through its body paint. This concept car by Mercedes-Benz named as Vision G-Code doubles up as a solar panel. The Vision G-Code capture energy from solar rays using his multi-voltaic silver paint to power his hybrid engine. The paint can also be charged electrostatically by the wind when moving or stationary. Kinetic energy created by the suspension will also generate electricity as well.

NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new software that will enable scientists to work on Mars virtually using a wearable technology called Microsoft HoloLens. The software called OnSight, developed by Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, will give researchers a means to plan and, along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red Planet. OnSight will give rover scientists the ability to walk around and explore Mars right from their offices. OnSight will use real rover data and extend the Curiosity mission’s existing planning tools by creating a 3D simulation of the Martian environment where scientists around the world can meet. Program scientists will be able to examine the rover’s worksite from a first-person perspective, plan new activities and preview the results of their work firsthand. Until now, rover operations required scientists to examine Mars imagery on a computer screen and make inferences about what they are see

Elon Musk has announced that he is building a hyperloop transport system. Elon Musk is a Canadian-American engineer, entrepreneur, and inventor.    He is the CEO and CTO of  SpaceX , CEO and chief product architect of  Tesla Motors , and  chairman  of  SolarCity . He is the  founder  of  SpaceX  and a  cofounder  of  PayPal ,  Tesla Motors , and Zip2. . Musk has a aimbition of colonizing the mars to save the human from extinction.  Musk announced the development for a innovative air-rail system, testing on a five-mile track. Hyperloop will travel its passenger at a average speed of 598 mph.