In this week’s episode of the Engineering Update starring Editor Kasey Panetta (@kcpanetta), Associate Editor Jamie Wisniewski (@JamieECNMag), and WDD’s Editor-in-Chief, Janine E. Mooney (@JMooneyWDD): SpaceX hosts competition for the best Hyperloop pod design SpaceX is holding a competition in June 2016 for students and engineering teams to design Hyperloop Pods. Hyperloop is Musk’s concept […]
Record-Breaking Hydrogen Car
In this week’s episode of the Engineering Update starring Editor Kasey Panetta (@kcpanetta), Associate Editor Jamie Wisniewski (@JamieECNMag), and WDD’s Editor-in-Chief, Janine E. Mooney (@JMooneyWDD): Folding drone takes off in a third of a second Say goodbye to quadcopters. Swiss researchers have developed a self-deploying drone that takes off in a fraction of a second, then folds […]
Engineering Update #111: Bladeless wind turbines
In this week’s episode of the Engineering Update starring Editor Kasey Panetta (@kcpanetta), Associate Editor Jamie Wisniewski (@JamieECNmag), and WDD’s Editor-in-Chief, Janine E. Mooney (@JMooneyWDD): Bladeless wind turbines A company called Vortex Bladeless utilizes a different aspect of wind power called vortices. Vortices are created when wind moves around a barrier in its path. That […]