Archive : Discoveries & Developments

The world’s most cherished tablet, Apple iPad, is one of the most versatile tablets ever designed that allows you to surf the web, listen to music, watch videos and play games. However, that’s not all an iPad is capable of as has been proven by one of the foremost networking entities in the world Siemens. At the IFA 2011 in Berlin, Siemens will [...]

If you were asked what the advantages of solar energy are, you could probably write reams. We know it’s in abundance out there but we need convenient and inexpensive means of harnessing it. Tech giants and the design folks have been incessantly working on technologies and ideas that will let the world make maximum of this inexhaustible solar energy. [...]

Jodie Foster clearly showed that she is an extraterrestrial life search enthusiast, when she made a significant donation to Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). She is one of the few celebrities who not only feel that it is the responsibility of the human race to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life but also step up for it. She was [...]

Since the official retirement of the U.S shuttle program last month, the leading space agency in the world, NASA, may be have been down but definitely not out. The crown jewel of the U.S space program has now launched a new probe that has been designed and developed to study and explore Jupiter. The spacecraft called, Juno, was launched from Cape [...]

A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics in Germany have now come now come out with an interesting solution to the parking woes in the form of an all new RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag system called VIATAG. Though such a system is not exactly a breakthrough and is already in places in certain places [...]

One of the leading names in state of the art avionics, Rockwell Collins, took the prestigious 59th Annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as a platform to unveil an all new primary flight display (PFD) that will be entirely touch enabled. Thus futuristic system has been designed and developed to provide business [...]

One of the most secured and air traffic intensive international airports in the world, Heathrow International Airport in London is now all set to even more stringent and advanced security system in the form of facial recognition scanners. The announcement was made by the airport operator, BAA and as per the new security measures, passengers entering [...]

Though in metropolitan cities, ATM machines are just another facility that has been used for years by just about everyone, yet this on-demand cash machine is still considered to be quite complicated for the lesser educated communities of our society. In many regions such as rural China and India, the ATM concept is futuristic feature that has yet [...]

Come Friday, July 8th, 2011, the world will witness the glorious end to a three decade long and highly successful U.S  space shuttle program, as Shuttle Atlantis will mark the final flight with a cargo of four astronauts heading for the International Space Station (ISS). Under the auspices of the world’s most advanced space agency, NASA, the U.S [...]

One of the most formidable naval forces in the world, U.S Navy has now commissioned the construction of its latest project, the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP),a vessel designed specifically to carry out amphibious operations. The project has been awarded to General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), which will be constructing [...]