VELOKART

VELOCETA few years ago for her sons made a small recumbent (and judging by the size or design — it would be more accurate to call it melakarta). Children machine like, and they, along with the neighborhood kids for hours chased her down the quiet streets.

 

For a sample, took the simple design bezprovodnogo mini-car, the publication of which was in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 3 for 1977. That year, studying in the third grade, I convinced dad to draw me a subscription to the journal, a binder which in the following years I not only preserve, but still find in them much useful.

 

Now the sons of this car has grown, but the youngest often takes out her into the street, where among kids is a lot of wanting to ride in it. And he still does not refuse myself the pleasure pedal and the steering wheel a Cycling card.

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REWRITABLE PAPER

REWRITABLE PAPERResearchers from the Taiwan Institute of industrial technology (ITRI) has created a new type of media called i2R e-Paper, text and images which can be printed and erased dozens of times.

Sheet i2R e-Paper is covered with plastic film with cholesteric liquid crystals which do not have Central symmetry. To get the image on this “paper” it is necessary to pass through a thermal printer. Erased by re-processing in the device.

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ULTRA-RELIABLE DRIVES

ULTRA WHEELSThe company Milleniata together with LG Corporation assumes in the very near future to develop the “eternal wheels” that can store information indefinitely long time.

Of course, in addition to discs will also be released the player who can not only read data from these disks, but to write to them. M-Disc can be read in any domestic player.

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ALUMINUM FOIL

ALUMINUM FOILAluminum foil and materials on its basis are widely applied in packaging thanks to the unique protective and decorative properties.

Analyzing its functional properties, we can easily see that it has a number of very significant advantages compared to other packaging materials.
Proof. When the thickness of the foil 0.025 mm and higher it is almost impermeable to vapours and gases. Even with the thickness of 0.009 mm, the degree of water vapor transmittance is only 0.01 g/m2 per day, which can be considered more than acceptable.

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FAST AQUAPAD

FAST AQUAPADThe court, using for movement the muscular strength of a man, never belonged to the category of speed. The only exception is racing boats for rowing, which is the most fleet of vessels musculoides. Due to their known good configuration and the most complete use of the muscle energy of athletes, boats-“eight” is capable of two-kilometer distance to reach the speed of 12 knots. But this does not mean that this speed is the limit of possibilities of human movement on the water surface. If you deviate from canonical constructions of rowing boats, designed for official competition, then there is a possibility of creating a spacecraft-muskurahaton reach speeds up to 20 knots!

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STUDENT “ADRENALINE”

STUDENT Before you start talking about the car “Adrenaline” – built student engineering group of Moscow automobile and road Institute (MADI) to participate in the international competition “Formula Student”, it is necessary to say a few words about the history of this event.

In 1976, a number of technical universities of the USA held a contest of student projects of vehicles, which was a great success but the Event left unattended in automotive giants, many participants received job offers from them.

Since then, a large automotive firm hold in the field of view of gifted students, pay them a stipend, provide a variety of assistance with the condition that after graduation, ward will come to work to support his firm.

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ELECTRIC car B7

ELECTRIC car B7Australian designer Philip Legerski presented a draft promising sports electric vehicle, able to accelerate to a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
According to the developer, the purpose of creation of this machine, named B7, was an attempt to prove that cars of this type can be quick to look good and to manage and deliver driving pleasure.
The project Legerski involves the use in the power plant of the car is not heavy and expensive batteries, supercapacitors, which are more powerful, but smaller and lighter than lithium or metal hydride batteries used in existing electric cars. In the motion supercar will be using four electric motors – one for each wheel.

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