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Researchers Make More Affordable Fuel Cell
A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new fuel cell that reportedly lasts 10 times longer than any other current technology. The researchers believe that this advancement, coupled with mass production,...
Designer Creates Floating U.F.O. Timeshares
Pierpaolo Lazzarini wants to build an unidentified floating object. The U.F.O. 1.2 has been under development for about three years and now the Italian designer is finally ready to make his ...
Congress Cracks Down on Manufacturer’s ‘Extreme Profit Margins’
The U.S. House of Representatives has begun investigating a Cleveland-based supplier and aerospace manufacturer for “extreme profit margins” and “excess profit”.The remarks stem from reports that TransDigm has been a “bad actor” and “gou...
Engineer Gets 2.5 Years in Prison for Bribery, Fraud
A Hawaiian engineer was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribing public officials in Hawaii and the Federated States of Micronesia. 53-year-old Frank James Lyon pleaded guilty to paying $250,000 to Hawaiian officials to secure $...
Hellfire Cuts Like Swords from the Heavens
The Hellfire missile offers an interesting perspective, not just on military technology, but product lifecycle in general.The missile was initially developed with a shaped charge, which means the explosion it generated was intense, but c...
Will All Wheel Drive Save the Sedan?
Edmunds.com says that more than 63 percent of the new vehicles sold last year were SUVs or trucks, which is no surprise to automakers who have spent the last few years slashing their small car models to line up with the market.But they’r...
DoD Won’t Let Sonar Supplier Walk Away
Typically, if there’s demand, someone will figure out how to supply a product. However, in the case of a key naval defense asset, even a contract that has grown by more than to 50 percent in three years, reaching $264 million, wasn’t enough dem...
Ohio Town Solves the Mystery of the Blocked Key Fob
There was something eerie about this situation out of Ohio that was putting some residents on edge: in the small town of North Olmsted -- a suburb west of Cleveland -- people were finding that their garage door openers and vehicle key fobs were...
Smart Suitcase Helps Visually Impaired Travelers
Running through an airport probably isn’t anyone’s idea of a particularly good time, but for the visually impaired, the air travel experience can be an especially daunting one.Navigating swarms of people through expansive corridors and ...
Lawsuit After Man Dies Under 'Avalanche’ of Salt
On April 30, 2017, 60-year-old Lawrence Ray Shiner Jr. was repairing a 145-foot-tall boiler at the Kapstone Paper and Packaging paper mill in North Charleston, SC. While he was repairing the boiler, he was buried in an "avalanche of...
Adidas a Victim of its Popularity
It looks like Adidas isn’t just for Run DMC anymore.The company is having a banner year, dazzling investors by beating forecasts in the first quarter, though its explosive growth has an unwanted bedfellow -- supply chain problems that ar...
SUVs Run Smart Cars Out of the U.S.
Roughly a decade after being introduced to the U.S. market, Daimler recently announced that it will stop selling the infamous ForTwo Smart vehicle in the U.S. and Canada after the 2019 model year. Depending on your perspective, the ...
Samsung's Galaxy Fold Fails
Early reviews of Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold have been critical of the new folding screen, but I think the most hilarious came from iFixit as part of the website’s product teardown, “Like a beautiful butterfly, our Fold's life was tragically shor...
Researchers Fight Fire with Nanocellulose
Researchers from VTT Technical Research Center in Finland have created a new coating using nanocellulose.Nanocellulose naturally adheres to wood and forms an airtight film on the surface. This makes nanocellulose-based coatings a good fi...
Researchers Finally Made the Magic Fat Pill
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU Singapore) have finally created the one true magic pill to fight obesity. The team has developed a prototype capsule that inflates in your stomach to make you feel full....
Man Arrested for $72M Counterfeit Component Scheme
On April 16, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 44-year-old man in California for overseeing a scheme to smuggle $72 million in counterfeit Apple and Samsung cellphone components from China. Chan Hung Le...