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Solar cell generates hydrogen fuel and electricity at the same time 'Blackest black' material ever is discovered -- by mistake! U.S. military laser and directed energy weapons: Updates from the field |
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Highest Speeds or Highest Torque? Discover the new FAULHABER 1660 BHx series: a high-power, slot-less brushless DC motor based on 2-pole technology that's setting new standards for performance, speed, and power. 16mm in diameter and 60mm in length, the 1660 BHx motor is ideal for handheld tools and devices requiring impressive power and high efficiency. Offered in two motor design options, optimized for high speed (BHS-version) or high torque (BHT-version) performance.
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| 2020 Corvette Stingray: First-ever mid-engine aims to keep it fast and affordable | |
What's new about the 2020 Corvette Stingray? Everything. The first-ever production mid-engine for the line features "supercar-level craftsmanship" and is also the fastest, most powerful entry Corvette ever -- 0 to 60 mph in under 3 sec. The price is right too, and GM says that is a big bonus.
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Nissan motorized golf ball can't miss -- demonstrates autonomous car navigation tech In order to demonstrate just how accurate their new ProPILOT 2.0 driver assistance technology is, Nissan has created an electronic golf ball filled with navigation tech that makes it to the hole every time. And to prove it works, they filmed a 4-year-old boy sinking putt after difficult putt.
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Ford Bronco R race prototype is sneak peek at new production model The Bronco is set to be reborn in 2020, and Ford gave us a sneak peek (although a cryptic one) of what it may look like recently when it entered the Bronco R race prototype in the punishing Baja 1000 off-road race. The heritage-inspired design gave a hint of the new vehicle's boxy proportions and was built using the upcoming production model's body-on-frame architecture.
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Harley goes electric with LiveWire motorcycle There's a new sound at Harley-Davidson, and it's not that deep rumbling roar you hear from their traditional two-wheelers. It's more of a high-pitched zip, and it comes from LiveWire, the company's first electric production motorcycle. LiveWire's instant torque rockets riders from 0 to 60 mph in under 3.5 sec.
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Mustang Shelby GT500: Most powerful street-legal Ford ever We were excited in June 2018 when Ford released details of its 526-hp 2019 Mustang Shelby GT350, but now the pony car maker has gone one better. The all-new 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 is the most powerful street-legal Ford ever -- with a supercharged 5.2-liter V8 producing more than 700 hp, it's capable of doing a mid-three-second 0 to 60 mph.
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Metal foam stops .50-caliber rounds -- as good as solid steel at half the weight Researchers from NC State have demonstrated that vehicle armor using composite metal foam (CMF) can stop ball and armor-piercing .50-caliber rounds as well as conventional steel armor, even though it weighs less than half as much -- meaning vehicle designers will be able to develop lighter military vehicles without sacrificing safety or can improve protection without making vehicles heavier.
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Harvard/MIT engineers reinvent piston using soft materials A team of roboticists has developed a new way to design pistons that replaces their conventional rigid elements with compressible structures inside a membrane made of soft materials. The resulting "tension pistons" generate more than three times the force of comparable conventional pistons, eliminate much of the friction, and are strikingly more energy efficient.
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Un-weldable aluminum alloy now weldable thanks to nanotech AA 7075, an aluminum alloy developed in the 1940s, has long held promise for use in automobile manufacturing, except for one key obstacle. Although it's nearly as strong as steel and just one-third the weight, it is almost impossible to weld together using common techniques. But that's all changed.
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Top Product: New world record for strongest adhesive DELO, one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial adhesives for automotive, consumer, and industrial electronics applications, has broken the world record for achieving the heaviest lift using adhesive. The company lifted an 18-ton truck and held it in the air for one full hour -- suspended from a bonded aluminum cylinder.
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Top Tip: HVACR -- How to properly clean a condenser coil Condenser coil cleaning is one of those subjects where there is a fair amount of confusion. Parker Hannifin provides answers to common questions to set the record straight. Why do condenser coil cleaners foam, and evaporator coils usually don't? What is the difference between the acid and non-acid condenser coil cleaners? Learn these things and more in this informative post. Read the Parker Hannifin blog.
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Top Product: Gecko Gripper with NASA tech comes to market End-effector tooling specialist OnRobot is now taking orders for its Gecko Gripper, which uses millions of micro-scaled fibrillar stalks that adhere to a surface using powerful van der Waals forces -- the same way that geckos climb. The technology was first developed at Stanford and perfected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. It's fascinating how it works. It's kind of like Velcro -- if you only needed one side of the Velcro tape.
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New kind of shape-shifting airplane wing A team of MIT and NASA engineers has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane's flight, and could provide a significant boost in aircraft production, flight, and maintenance efficiency.
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8 ways to improve your sheet metal parts All sheet metal parts start out flat. And no matter how convoluted or complex their final shapes may be, the wall thickness of those parts must be uniform throughout. Engineers from Protolabs share their eight quick sheet metal design tips, focusing on material and finishing options along with design elements like bends, reliefs, holes, and slots when developing your metal components. Really useful info.
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Join carbon materials and more with innovative C-Solder C-Solder tin-based soldering alloys enable the joining of carbon materials as well as carbon to metals (copper, aluminum) and aluminum to aluminum. The resulting bond is mechanically strong and electrically conductive. C-Solder is both flux-free and lead-free, has a melting point of 232 C (solidus temperature), has excellent flow, does not leave a residue, and is not affected by cleaning solvents. Learn more from Goodfellow. A really cool material.
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| Hoverboard wows Paris parade crowd | |
| Your dreams of having a jet pack are so 2018. Franky Zapata, the French inventor of the jet-fuel-powered, gyrostabilized Flyboard Air platform, stole the show at France's annual Bastille Day parade in Paris. At the invitation of the French Armed Forces, Zapata sported a rifle and a very confident look-Mom-no-hands attitude as he soared above the Champs-Elysees to the amazement of politicians, military personnel, and the public. The board can go to 10,000 ft, has a max speed over 90 mph, uses four 250-hp turbine engines, and has been demonstrated to fly up to 10 minutes so far. Jaw dropping and also scary. The France 24 site posted the incredible video and short report.
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