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Wi-Fi isn’t always practical–in places like hospitals or labs, for instance, where radio transmitters are prohibited–and physical USB cables can be slow and cumbersome as well. So engineers at National Taipei University of Technology have built a low-cost, easy to implement optical setup that can beam data across rooms twice as fast as USB 2.0 technology using conventional laser pointers.
The simple setup costs only about $600 to bui…
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NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), Visualized NASA
NASA is spending roughly $175 million on three new technology demonstration projects, one of which is aiming to take HD data streaming to Mars. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will explore reliable optical communications technologies that could boost data rates between Earth and deep space by a couple of orders of magnitude.
The premise is simple enough: for the same mass, size, and power load an optical communic…
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This fall is guaranteed to be filled with automotive excitement because, well, we’re making it.
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While BMW has already shown us its upcoming M5 über sedan in “concept” form at this year’s Shanghai auto show, the automaker continues to tease us with videos of prototype vehicles in various stages of development. Earlier vids included a 30-minute smorgasbord of M5 test mules romping in the Alps and a brief clip of an M5 roaring through a dark tunnel in a sort of polar-bear-blinking-in-a-snowstorm game, in which viewers could really only see the car’s lit headlights and, well, darkness. This n…
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A little bit before its M Festival debut, BMW is teasing the new M5 in this new video where the show the new sports sedan undergoing high-speed testing at the Nardo Ring in the south of Italy. Of course, this is one of the most important (and most exciting) test in the BMW M5′s development program.
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We really can’t wait until the 2012 BMW M5 is revealed, but it seems like the teasing will just continue for the rest of the year before the production mod…
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With an investment of over $2 billion, the Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced funding for 22 projects in 15 states around the country aimed at developing a high-speed rail system. Besides allowing people and goods to travel more quickly and cheaper, the projects will also stimulate jobs, manufacturing, and help jump-start the economy in these areas.
Another impact will be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by giving people other safe and reliable options for transport besides the …
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Famed car collector and Ferrari enthusiast James Glickenhaus is well-known for his custom Enzo-based P4/5 exotic, and is hard at work building a race-spec variant for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That car won’t be up and running for some time yet, but to whet our appetites, a new video of the road-going P4/5 blasting around a banked oval, has made its way online.
While the P4/5 has been chronicled time and time again, we never shy away from an opportunity to see and hear the Pininfarina project being …
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The push for high-speed rail in America is picking up speed — it’s just happening really, really slowly. Yesterday, efforts to connect American cities with new high-speed passenger rail links received a shot in the arm to the tune of $2.4 billion in federal funding for 54 projects in 23 states. And while it’s not even close to enough to push America’s rail system toward the modern railways linking Asian and European cities, it is a baby step in t…
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