Cow Manure powered Bus Sets World Speed Record

UK based Reading Buses powered by cow manure broke previous land speed record of the bus.In UK normally buses run with speed limits of 56 mph.The bus is known as the "Bus Hound" that runs on biomethane compressed natural gas (CNG) reached a lap speed of 76.785 mph (123.57 km/h) around the test track at Bedford's Millbrook proving Ground. The bus has potential to run on biomethane,...

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Wind Power Ecocapsule Allows Live Off-The-Grid Anywhere On Earth

Bratislava, Slovakia based group Nice Architects unveiled a tiny egg shaped portable house which is powered by wind and solar energy and contains rain drops collection as well as filtration.This is a micro-home that is designed as energy efficient, called "Ecocapsule". It contains 2.6 sq metre array of high efficiency solar cells on the roof and a built in 750W wind turbine, both provide...

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Input Device Phree Tracks Notes, Sketching On Any Surface

Tel Aviv, Isreal based OTM Technologies company revealed a prototype smartpen called "Phree" which is a high resolution input device allows users write down notes, sketch or anything on any surface and see the sketch or notes appear on your device screen. Phree connects to a various devices such as smartphone, tablet and computers.It is also capable to work with TV and laptops via Bluetooth...

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Vortex Stick Like Turbine Generates More Power At Low Cost

A Spanish radical company called Vortex Bladeless changes the way we capture energy from the wind.The ompany targets to generate wind power through Vortex, which is a stick like bladeless wind turbine.When wind flows over stick like turbine the flow changes and generates a cyclical pattern of vertices which is called vortex shedding effect that creates vorticity.Through vorticity...

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World's First Bike Path That Generates 3,000 kWh Of Energy

Six months age in November 2014, SolaRoad opened a world's first solar path which is 230 feet long that generates energy, in Krommenie, a village northwest of the Dutch city of Amsterdam.It generated 3,000 kWh of electricity or enough to power a single person home for a year.It is three year project which costs 3.5-million Euros.  A spokeman of SolaRoad, Sten de Wit said,...

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The $9 CHIP Computer Runs Linux, Crushing Kickstarter

The Next Thing Co. a Oakland, California based company lunched a CHIP which is a microcomputer, on Kickstarter.It is a tiny computer that can support a full version of Linux.CHIP is smaller than a credit card which costs about $9.It allows user to check your email over wifi, surf the Web and play games with a Bluethooth option. It comes with a 1 GHz processor, 512MB RAM and...

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Fixstars Announced World's First 6-Terabyte SSD

Japanese software company Fixstars has introduced the world's first 6TD 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Drive.The Fixstars drive is known as SSD-6000M that has a 6TD of storage capacity and uses 15nm flash memory.It supports SATA 6Gbps, offers read speeds up to 540 MB/s and write speeds of 520 MB/s which is higher speed 6Gbps of serial vise access.Fixstars is taking orders; sending will...

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iPhone Case Downloads Power From Air To Extend Mobile's Battery Life

Nikola Labs has developed an iPhone case which has potential to download power from air.A company has presented their product at a TechCrunch event, an iPhone case which can convert radio frequencies into electricity that can be utilized to recharge the battery of a mobile devices.It is a case that is designed for iPhone 6. The iPhone case can convert 90 percent of the energy wasted...

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Microsoft App Judges Your Age From A Photo

Microsoft has launched a new website known as How Old.net that utilizes facial recognition software to determine your age based on a image.It is a website where users can upload a photo and API has to estimate how old is and also guess about gender. Microsoft's demo app was released during build conference in San Francisco, a few days ago.Microsoft's Machine Learning APIs is a really...

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This High Speed Camera Could Visualize Atoms

Japanese researchers have developed a high speed camera that can record events at a rate of more than 1-trillion-frames-per-second.A new high speed camera ables to capture images a thousand times faster than formal high speed cameras.By this camera researchers can watch or capture waves of atoms travelling through crystal structures at one sixth of the speed of light, or about 28,000...

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