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The Navy's MQ-8B helicopter drone makes its first narcotics bust on the high seas

Drug runners and pirates beware: a Navy helicopter drone made its first official drug bust on April 3. The U.S. Navy Fire Scout stealthily tailed a "go-fast" boat suspected of carrying narcotics for three hours, and captured video of the boat's refueling rendezvous with a fishing vessel. Not a bad outcome for started as a "routine test flight," according to Navy reports.Read More

Members of the public were invited to create their own Swiss Army Knife at an exhibition at the Château de Prangins, near Geneva, to mark the firm's 125th anniversary.Read More

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will be the world's largest indoor theme park when it opens later this year

This Ferrari F430 replica can hold four passengers and will run on tracks parallel to another car, effectively "racing" it around the nearly-completed Ferrari World theme park in Abu Dhabi.Read More

Machine carves a helmet out of a solid aluminum block

Amazing helmet CNC machined from a solid piece of aluminum.Read More

Popular Science photographer John Carnett builds a four-wheeler with a screaming Garrett turbine jet engine

Built around a Polaris RZR all-terrain vehicle, John Carnett's homemade machine tops out at just over 60 mph powered by its 87-pound Garrett GTP 30-67 tubine jet engine. The project took Carnett 10 months to build at a cost of more than $15,000.Read More

Studios are using virtual backgrounds from around the world

Founded in 1989 by distinguished cinematographer Sam Nicholson, Stargate Studios was conceived as a high tech production company offering visual effects and production services to the film and television industries. They have created some amazing chroma key greenscreen digital compositing, where studio sets can be used with virtual backgrounds from all over the world.Read More

New metal foam material absorbs seven to eight times the energy absorbed by similar foams

Uncompressed and Compressed Metal Foam

Aerospace engineering professor Afsaneh Rabiei set out to make a material as light as aluminum and stronger than stainless steel. Her goal was to create something that could be used in products that would save lives, save energy and eventually save money, all at the same time.Read More

BMW Oracle Racing hopes using a wing for a sail will help its BOR 90 win the America’s Cup race later this month

This year, the rules have all but disappeared for competitors in the world’s oldest international trophy competition, the America’s Cup sailing race. Motorized sails are fine, the single-hull rule is out, and in the case of the BMW Oracle Racing team’s boat, even sails are optional. Instead, they hope the largest wing ever constructed could catch enough wind to win the America’s Cup.Read More

Fuel cell powered exoskeleton allows loads of up to 200 lbs for extended periods of time and over all terrains

A radical powered exoskeleton under development for use by the US military will be fitted with fuel-cell power supplies which will increase its endurance from hours to days - and furnish juice for the burgeoning load of electronics carried by modern soldiers.Read More

Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Demos Car-Stopping Power

Stopping a speeding car without killing its driver and passengers with traditional means - bullets - can prove tricky, even if skilled snipers can put a disabling shot in a car's engine block. But a Canadian company could soon demo an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) cannon capable of effectively scrambling a car's chips and other electronics, according to Flight International.Read More