Video: Engineers are Cool
Posted on August 31st, 2012 by aseeadmin
Invisible Bike Helmet
Posted on August 24th, 2012 by Mary Lord
Who says safety can’t be stylish? Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, two young Swedish designers, have rethought the traditional bike helmet as an unobtrusive nylon neck-wrap hat operates like a self-deploying air bag to protect your head.
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Tags: airbag, Anna Haupt, bicycle, bike helmet, Design, head injury, helmet, Hovding, industrial design, safety, Sweden, Terese Alstin
Star Wars-style Hoverbike
Posted on August 23rd, 2012 by Mary Lord
Imagine zooming across the desert like Luke Skywalker on his X-34 landspeeder. Science fiction? Not to engineers at California aerospace company Aerofex, who recently took their prototype hover bike for a spectacular spin. The flying bike has two rotors instead of wheels and a mechanical steering system that responds to the pilot’s leaning movements and intuitive sense of balance.
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Tags: aerofex, Aerospace Engineering, drone, hover bike, hovercraft, landspeeder, Star Wars
NASA’s Mohawk Guy
Posted on August 6th, 2012 by Mary Lord
Photo: Twitter / Bobak Ferdowsi
On August 6, NASA’s rover Curiosity successfully survived “seven minutes of terror” to land successfully on Mars. But it was Mission Control systems engineer Bobak Ferdowsi who really turned heads–with his star-spangled mohawk.
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Tags: Bobak Ferdowsi, Curiousity, Jet Propulsion Lab, Mars, mohawk, NASA, rover
