This Bike Path Paved With Solar Panels Can Power One Home For a Year
A bike path made of solar cells has shocked it's creators at SolaRoad with just how much electricity it's generating.
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Skype Is Testing a Real-Time Translation Feature in Four Languages
Skype's new tool is taking conversations a step further, translating them in real time as folks speak to each other in their native language.
How This Smartphone Case Charges Batteries Out of Thin Air
A smartphone case turns radio waves into electricity to recharge your battery out of thin air.
Girl Sends A Message to Dad in Space Using 11 Cars
A girl used 11 cars to write a short message spread over 1,300 acres so her father could read it from space.
Humanitarian Drones to Deliver Medical Supplies to Roadless Areas
Andreas Raptopoulos wants to use aerial drones to save lives, by helping the one billion people who do not have year-round access to roads.
Drones From Iran Actually Built to Save People - From Drowning
Another example of how a drone can be a lifesaver, rather than a killer, comes from a group of young engineers in Iran whose robotics expertise has been put to work developing an alternative to human lifeguards along the Caspian Sea coast, where more than a thousand people drown every year. Their drone can speedily fly to swimmers in trouble and drop three life preservers.
Innovative Crowdsourcing of Tweets, Phones Can Give Early Warnings of Quakes, Floods
Your smartphone could save your life before disaster strikes. Researchers are turning smartphones and social media into early warning systems for earthquakes and floods.
NASA Challenges Public to Help With Space Exploration
On Saturday and Sunday, volunteers will be hard at work in a marathon session of computer coding, engineering and general brainstorming as part of the annual International Space Apps Challenge.
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