• Cars

    A Full-Service Fillup, Via Robot

    By Posted on 2.6.2008 6 Comments

    It will cost more than your car, but the convenience! Pull up to a pump, and the Dutch robot fueling system from Intion Development does the rest. A robotic arm pops open the access door with one manipulator, unscrews the fuel cap with another, and then handles the fuel nozzle with a gripper-like device and fills up your car.

    4.7.2008 at 05:58pm - Comment by hitman00769

    it seems like if you have a supercar you wouldn't want to use that, i mean I wouldn't take the chance of that thing scratching my car and casting me a few grand To each his own, It's whatever man!

  • Cars

    Traffic Jams on Open Highways

    By Posted on 4.1.2008 11 Comments

    The only thing more frustrating than creeping your way toward the site of a bottleneck on the highway only to discover the accident is on the other side of the median are the times when you make it through and discover, as far as you can tell, nothing was holding up the traffic. Japanese researchers have now demonstrated that the "nothing" may in fact be the traffic crossing a threshold of density of cars on the road. Too many cars means that small slow downs by a few drivers equals up to big backups miles away.

    4.7.2008 at 05:53pm - Comment by hitman00769

    it's very simple, it is called the "worm" effect when one person fails to respond with the person in front of them, it slows everyone down, then the effect keeps going behind them, with people accelerating at different rates and with different reaction times To each his own, It's whatever man!

  • Technology

    The Army’s Telepathic Ray Gun

    By Posted on 3.24.2008 5 Comments

    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/general_sciences/The_Army_s_Telepathic_Ray_Gun_No_Really'; The U.S. Defense department has tested some spooky weapons, but those involving mind control and telepathic attack may be near the top of the list. A newly declassified 1998 document released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (download the pdf here), describes potential weapons for crowd control, such as a microwave gun that could beam words directly into peoples ears, and an electromagnetic pulse that causes epilepsy-like seizures.

    4.7.2008 at 05:49pm - Comment by hitman00769

    so, a microwave gun sends sound waves? I didn't think sound waves were microwaves...... To each his own, It's whatever man!



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