Monday, September 13, 2010 - 1:59pm
Looking to go for a quick flight without using any fuel and also don't have any luggage? Well, the Cri-Cri might be just the plane for you. Seating only a pilot, this tiny plane flies entirely using solar power.
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Monday, September 13, 2010 - 12:15pm
Here's a harrowing image: the SkyRider design for new cheapo airplane seats. Clearly designed with cramming as many people as humanly possible onto a plane without much regard for their comfort, it's apparently being looked at by several airlines.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 3:48am
To make a call from an airplane, your only real option is those phones on the seats you have to pay for (and even those are rare now). Using your cell doesn't work, and neither does VoIP as it's often blocked by Wi-Fi providers. You know what does work? The iPhone 4's video chat component, FaceTime.
Monday, April 26, 2010 - 3:01am
This may just be my new favorite tech video ahead of that transparent Nissan we showed you last week. It shows a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 dubbed the "Florida One" being assembled from start to finish, from transporting the fuselage...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 9:30am
So you missed out on being a member of the greatest generation. You never got to partake in a "good war." But that doesn't mean you can't drive around on a motorcycle with a sidecar built to look like a...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 9:38am
In-flight entertainment setups are getting more and more advanced, and Panasonic is looking to push the technology even further. It's new Merge in-flight entertainment system has a connector for your iPod/iPhone to utilize all of its multimedia files as well...
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 8:49am
Isn't it amazing what you can do with a radio-controlled plane and 1800 LEDs? Watch the night flight of Walter Colby's Lanzo Record Breaker, an 8-foot wingspan R/C aircraft festooned with six lengths of 5-meter LED strips powered by...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 1:29pm
UbiGreen, a cell phone application that's been developed jointly by the University of Washington and Intel, will keep track of how you travel and let you know how green you're being. It uses built-in accelerometers like the iPhone has to...
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:28am
With all this talk about electric cars, solar power, and wind energy being bandied about, we haven't heard much about how to power those gas-guzzling tin cans of the sky. That's why NASA tapped the smarty-pants engineers at MIT...
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 9:20am
Flying cars are all hat, no cattle. But wait. What's this? A flying car that will actually exist, roll on real streets and highways and then take off into the wild blue? You betcha. Pony up your $194,000, and...
