Giant Automatic Highway Builders of the Future

"Highways by Automation" by Arthur Radebuagh (Washington Star, August 3, 1958)After President Eisenhower pushed legislation in 1956 that would radically expand the U.S. highway system, artists began to imagine which technologies might shape our highway-rich future. These weren’t your father’s superhighways [...]

Email in your eye? Next-generation video screen glasses could lay messages or GPS over your field of vision

As advances in computer technology make gadgets ever smaller and more portable the idea of carrying a screen of any kind could soon be outdated.   Consumer products with screens have dropped in size from computer to laptop to tablet via phone. But one company specialising in cutting edge [...]

The new space race: China and India to create world's biggest telescope

-100-foot-wide optical telescope is nine times bigger than ones in use today -Will pick out objects 13 billion light years away -Sharp enough to pick out planets orbiting distant suns China and India are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners [...]

Seagaia Ocean Dome: An Artificial Beach in Japan

Artificial beaches are gaining popularity all over the world. We can see them in Monaco, Hong Kong, Paris, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto and others, but the biggest among them is Seagaia Ocean Dome in Miyazaki, Japan. The Ocean Dome, which was a part of the Sheraton Seagaia Resort, measures 300 [...]

Belaz - 73600, The Biggest Dump Truck In The Cis Country

The coal mine on the Bachat river is the largest region of the Kuznetsk Basin in Siberia. Its annual production is over 8 million and 700 thousand tons. It extracts fuel for energetic and metallurgic branches of Russian and many other countries of the world. The biggest dump truck BelAZ-75600 [...]