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Watch SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket hover, from its own point of view (video)
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Ever wonder what it would be like to hover 131 feet above the ground through rocket power? You could come close with a jetpack, or you could watch a new SpaceX video that shows the Grasshopper reusable rocket’s own perspective. The new angle on a December test flight emphasizes just how quick and precise the hover routine has become: it takes little time for the Grasshopper to stop at its intended altitude, and the rocket doesn’t bob or sway to any significant degree. We’d most like to see the rocket reach its full two-mile potential, but we’ll gladly be distracted by the recent footage found after the break.
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: a locomotive that runs on hydrogen, honey detective and a 30 mph-capable hover bike
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Inhabitat is always on the lookout for brand-new and interesting developments, however some of the things that flashed throughout our displays this week genuinely escape the rules of physics. Take, for instance, the story of 51-year-old Chinese guy Sun Jifa, who lost both of his arms in an explosion and constructed his very own bionic hands out of scrap metal. Structure functional prosthetic limbs is one thing, however doing it without the aid of fingers? That’s downright astonishing. We were additionally pretty excited to hear that a California-based tech company has developed a working hover bike that travels up to 30 mph. It isn’t really fairly ready for a high-speed chase in the forest a la Star Wars, however it still looks quite cool. And in yet another remarkable development, a team of Harvard researchers has actually determined a means to shop 70 billion books in a room the size of your thumbnail.
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No Comments »The Future!: One more Day, Yet another Functional Hover Bike
Author: Tiffany Shoman
This is a presently unnamed Aerofex twin rotor-powered hoverbike. Personally, I recommend they call it the Boner-bike, however that’s merely me and there’s no method you could zoom around on that thing without one. OR A HELMET. Security first, people. I’m joking– it’s your head, I do not care exactly what you do with it.
[The bike] originates from a design deserted in the 1960s because of stability and rollover problems. Aerofex, a California-based firm, fixed the stability issue by developing a mechanical system– controlled by 2 control bars at knee-level– that enables the vehicle to react to a human pilot’s leaning movements and natural sense of balance.
But Aerofex does not prepare to instantly establish and sell a manned version. Instead, the aerospace firm sees the aerial automobile as a test platform for brand-new unmanned drones– heavy-lift robot workhorses that can utilize the same hover modern technology to work in agricultural fields, or promptly deliver supplies to search-and-rescue teams in rough landscapes.
Aerofex has presently restricted human flight screening to a height of 15 feet and speeds of about 30 miles per hour, however more from caution instead of since of any type of technical limitations. Older versions of the hover automobiles might fly about as fast as helicopters, De Roche stated.
Hey Aerofex– you seeking a pilot eager to go greater than 15-feet and a lot faster than 30 mph? I ‘M YOUR BROBRO. I’ll take that thing up to a mile and open the throttle till I hit an at 200 MPH and it blows a hole through my chest. No regrets. Well, not about that anyways. HEAPS of other regrets.
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Hover Board
Author: Randy Miller
Please check out the “Robot DogSled HoverBoard Drifting” video on this channel. It’s better/cooler. (And then maybe the”But Will It Work On Water” follow up video…)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Hover Anything That Weighs Less Than 12-Ounces!
Author: Tristan Richards
In other hover-news, this is the $ 100 Levitron Revolution. It can levitate any object that fits on its hoverdisk and weighs less than 12-ounces. How? Magic magnets WIZAAAAAARDZ!
According to the manufacturers, “The Levitron automatically compensates for changes in weight by making up to 1,000 corrections per second to the electromagnets contained within the base.”
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Buy 80 and build a hoverboard for your little brother?!” Wow, it really is like you and I share one big, retarded brain. To my basement workshop! “This…is your bedroom.” I’m getting under the covers!
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In The Future, The Robots Will Roll And Hover
Author: Troy Barnes
I’m not exactly enthused by the idea of these rolling/hovering hybrid robots crawling and zipping all over the earth. Sure, they could be useful in a military or rescue situation, able to conserve power by sitting comfortably on the ground but navigate freely in the air if necessary. But they could also be replicated at large by the machines when the Robocalypse comes, at which point they’ll roll over you and then hover over your lifeless body.
For now I guess we should congratulate Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos and his team at the University of Minnesota for creating a pretty cool little bot. Their design is solid, although right now there are two models, one that only flies and one that only rolls, since they haven’t worked out how to get the motor to power both drives.
The next step is to make it simpler and lighter, and making the robot navigate autonomously instead of by remote. Isn’t it a little early for that, guys? Don’t need to bring down humankind any faster than necessary.
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Can someone help me create the same “image hover” effect on Engadget.com? It looks like an upside down “U”
Author: Markus Smith
http://www.engadget.com/
When your mouse hovers over an image link, it looks like a thin blue underline appears underneath the image before you click it.
Is this an attribute I put under the following CSS:
a.imglink, a.imglink:hover {
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}
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STARMAC Hoverbot Backflip
Author: William Miller
The STARMAC hoverbot has been around a for a while. Super stable, does up, down, left, and right very well, but for a long time it couldn’t do flips.
Now with the introduction of an analytical tool called “reachable sets†the folks over at Stanford have been able to get the hoverbot to do flips, and recover without hitting the ground. The end result is something that looks simple, as are all things that people perfect over time using their knowledge and natural skills.
Oh and for those of you that dont know what STARMAC is, Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control. Geez, glad they could do STARMAC…
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