[ad_1] Elon Musk made the announcement on Twitter shortly after the 2019 Hyperloop Pod competition. Next year’s @Hyperloop competition will be in a 10km vacuum tunnel with a curve — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 22 July 2019 The Hyperloop competition is a student engineering challenge where teams are invited to design and build a prototype vehicle […]
Category: Design
The sneakers inspired by Apollo 11 and the Moon landing
[ad_1] Nike Air Max Lunar90 SP “Moon Landing” Five years ago, on July 14th, 2014, Nike introduced what are arguably the best Moon landing-inspired sneakers to date: the Air Max Lunar 90 SP “USA.” The sportswear giant took one of its most iconic models, the Tinker Hatfield-designed Air Max 90, and donned it with midsole […]
Did Frankenstein go to the Moon?
[ad_1] Frankenstein & Sons was founded in 1854 and operated out of the Victoria Rubber Works in Newton Heath, Manchester. During the Second World War, it started producing highly sophisticated survival gear for aircrew. For a while, Britain protected some of its convoys with Hawker Hurricane fighters that launched from merchant vessels retrofitted with rocket-propelled […]
The Bank of England will honor Alan Turing on its new £50 note
[ad_1] Turing is perhaps most well known for his work on cracking the Enigma code which was key to Allied intelligence during the war. His life story was adapted for the big screen in 2014 in the film The Imitation Game, and today his name lives on as a benchmark in AI testing. The Bank […]
Three Houses’ is a slice of epic life
[ad_1] Explore mode would not work if the game wasn’t written well. It is. The terms of Nintendo’s embargo forbid me talking about the story beyond a major flashpoint around ten hours in, and I wouldn’t want to spoil it anyway. What I will say is Three Houses has some great twists and turns. The […]
Google to roll out redesigned News tab
[ad_1] While it’s too early to tell what exactly the revamped News tab will accomplish, it’s clear that it’s a step in an entirely different direction. A look at the “Before and After” GIF of the News tab reveals that prominent news publishers are highlighted clearly on top, and the staggered look of numerous news […]
Zero’s SR/F electric motorcycle makes a great commuter bike
[ad_1] But instead of blending into the sea of motorcycles, the SR/F sticks out in a way other Zero models never did. A lot of it has to do with the design; the company decided to highlight its electric powertrain. The updated Z-Force motor is smack dab in the center of the bike while the […]
Apple will soon ditch its butterfly keyboard design
[ad_1] Apple’s butterfly keyboards have been troublesome from the get-go, and are well known to fail as a result of debris or overheating. Apple rolled out a worldwide repair program for 2015-and-later MacBooks, and subsequently updated the keyboard last year to include a thin silicone barrier behind each key to help thwart dust and crumbs. […]
Tesla delivered a record 95,000 cars this spring
[ad_1] The company didn’t directly explain the surge, but the Model 3’s availability in the UK may have helped along with continued interest from mainland Europe and China. The Model 3 was undoubtedly the star of the show with over 77,550 deliveries compared to 17,650 for the Model S and Model X combined. These figures […]
WSJ report on Jony Ive is ‘absurd’
[ad_1] Exclusive: In scathing email, Apple CEO Tim Cook tells me the @WSJ report about Jony Ive’s departure — and his frustration with Cook’s alleged lack of interest in design — is “absurd.” Says reporting and conclusions “don’t match with reality.” Full story coming soon @NBCNews … pic.twitter.com/QX9L4MvjFs — Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) July 1, 2019 […]