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Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air

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The drone’s bird-inspired legs adopted some key principles of biological design like the ability to store and release energy in tendon-like springs along with some flexible toes. Actuated hip and ankle joints form a simplified but still birdlike leg, while springs in the ankle and toe joints help to absorb force and store energy.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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Although television technology had been in development for decades, and the BBC had been airing live programs since 1929 in the United Kingdom, competing technologies and licensing disputes kept the U.S. Television waves act in many respects like light waves.” So long as you knew how light waves behaved, you were good.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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The Altair-Duino runs a clock-cycle accurate emulation of the Altair 8800 running on an Ardunio Due connected to a replica panel that duplicates all the lights and switches of the original. Chris Davis makes a terrific replica kit, the Altair-Duino.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

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I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. Ola guys have done experiments like storing the battery at 120 degree Celsius and testing it at temperatures of up to 70 degree Celsius. The cells are stored in a special low-temperature area. Since then he has stayed with the same battery. deg C per minute.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? While utilities such as E.ON

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. The receivers for optical power transmission are specialized photovoltaic cells designed to convert a single wavelength of light into electric power with very high efficiency. At the U.S.

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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

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His noctovision used infrared light to see objects in the dark, which some experts claim was a precursor to radar. John Logie Baird [shown here] used the heads of ventriloquist dummies in early experiments because they didn’t mind the heat and bright lights of his televisor. But Baird earned his spot in history with the televisor.

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