The grotesquely named Apple iPad – which apparently broke the internets – has great potential as an electronic flight bag, and may well end up a category killer for legacy equipment.
There are pdf applications for Amazon.com’s Kindle that allow assiduous aviators to download airport diagrams, departure procedures, arrivals and approach plates, but from everything I’ve [...]
Use a laser.
Now if we can just get the bad guys to leave them laying about in plain sight.
Got the following email from an occasional reader in the UK that I feel unfit to service:
My question: Broadly, in most propeller driven aircraft, what would happen if a pilot took off at full power (or even WEP in a warbird) and remained at full power throughout climbout and for the entirety of the flight?
The expert [...]
What possible chance does a Silicon Valley start-up with no expertise in military intelligence have to create a solution that helps map out terrorist networks, their money flows and operational plans?
Pretty damned good, actually:
One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most [...]
Occasional reader Potosi Joel turned me on to a Wired article about a company named Applied Electronics getting a contract to place ultra short pulse lasers on naval aircraft:
USP lasers shoot incredibly fast pulses of light that create channels in the air for electricity to travel to a target. The targets are vaporized so quickly [...]
A Swiss team believes that they may be ready to fly a solar powered plane around the world by 2012:
Dr Piccard, who made history in 1999 by circling the globe non-stop in a balloon, says he wants to demonstrate the potential of renewable energies…
The flight would be a risky endeavour. Only now is solar and [...]
Courtesy of The Scoop Deck, a Corvette ZR-1 takes on Blue Angle #7: 600 horses vs 32,000 pounds of static thrust.
No contest.
Still, that’s an awfully nice car.
The $59k Touchtable.
Interesting look at what’s been going on over at Natanz.
(H/T to occasional reader Tuna)
After two years of self-denial, I finally took the plunge last January and bought the Apple iPhone. Now this:
Apple has just announced a new version of the iPhone: the iPhone 3G S. The “S” apparently stands for “Speed,” with Apple indicating that the new device is “the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.”
There will be two [...]
Guy Kawasaki makes the case for becoming your own mobile ISP.
Kinda makes sense for the tech-forward road warrior.
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