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World’s Fastest Electric Motorcycle Hits 200MPH
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Electric vehicles are known for being energy efficient and good for the environment, but they’re generally not known for their speed and performance. But that didn’t stop one rider from heading into the record books last Friday with an electric motorcycle capable of hitting speeds greater than 200 miles per… |
May 8th, 2012
Future Supercomputer to Be Faster Than 50 Million Laptops
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If you’re a computer enthusiast, I bet you think your rig is pretty fast. I don’t care how fast your computer at home is, you’ve got nothing on today’s supercomputers. When you think about the supercomputers coming by the end of the decade, you’re not even on the same planet.… |
March 30th, 2012
Darpa Cheetah Robot Sets Speed Record, Time to Run, Time to Hide
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Those mad scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) won’t be happy until we are all hunted down by their creations. Working towards this goal, some of their robot animals are getting way faster than you or I can run. The latest, called Cheetah, can run at speeds… |
March 6th, 2012
Insane Austrian Daredevil Will Attempt to Break Sound Barrier with No Aircraft
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An Austrian daredevil named Felix Baumgartner plans to attempt to break the speed of sound without actually being inside of an airplane. If he is successful, he will become the first parachutist to manage that feat. If he is unsuccessful, he could be the first person to splatter on the… |
February 9th, 2012
China Working on High-Speed Train That Can Hit 310 MPH… on Rails
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The fastest train that I’ve been in is Taiwan’s High Speed Rail and it went about 190 mph. That’s pretty fast for a land-based vehicle if you ask me. You can basically get from one end of the island to the other in about 90 minutes. Now, China is testing… |
January 1st, 2012
Darpa FastRunner Robot: Who’s the Fastest of Them All?
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Did you ever think that people would make a robot inspired by an ostrich? Well DARPA has those kinds of people and they think that their ‘bot will beat all others in terms of speed and stability, thanks to some high-tech wizardry.… |
November 28th, 2011
Min7 Micromouse Robot Solves Maze Under 4 Seconds, Real Mice out of a Job
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Are you geek enough to realize that there is actually an annual Micromouse Robot Competition? It’s where a bunch of small robots face off against each other not in the ring, but in a labyrinth. The goal is to solve the maze as quickly as possible.… |
November 22nd, 2011
Jet-Powered Harley Sold on eBay: Hell Yeah!
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This is the ultimate motorcycle if you ask me. I have wanted a jet bike since I was a kid when that Battlestar Galactica… TV Movie had Starbuck and Apollo flying around on jet bikes. This jet bike doesn’t fly, but it is something special – a 1929 style Harley |
November 11th, 2011
World’s Fastest Couch Hits 101 Miles Per Hour
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Most people sit back on their couches to relax and unwind. Some plop onto their couches and watch television or play video games for hours on end, while others enjoy curling up with a good book or magazine to read for the night. And some others build engines into their… |
October 11th, 2011
Fusion-io Unveils ioDrive2 SSD Card with Insane Data Speeds
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If you are the sort that has to have whatever the fastest storage is on the market – be it in the business setting or at home, the ioDrive2 is among the fastest you will find. This is a little PCIe slot SSD that has new specifications to make a… |
October 4th, 2011
