Two Very Cool New Inventions
#1
I think the C-1 is AWESOME!! Top speed 120 mph
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First, the ketchup bottle that lets you use every single drop. But wait! The product that makes that possible has even more potential than eliminating annoying pounding on Heinz 57 bottles! Introducing LiquiGlide:

In what could be a disruptive technology for the ketchup industry, an MIT professor has found a solution to getting the last sticky globs of ketchup (or honey or jelly) out of a bottle.

No word yet on how it could affect ketchup sales, but the technology uses a new type of food-grade coating that has the slipperiness of a liquid, but the rigidity of a solid.

Okay, that’s already awesome, but it gets better. Think big. Bigger than ketchup bottles. Bigger than cosmetics bottles. Bigger than honey jars. REALLY big:


As a mechanical engineer who develops nano-engineered surfaces and coating technologies, Varanasi usually works on large-scale energy and water projects, like developing surfaces that keep ice off wind turbines and airplanes or dust off of solar panels.

His other research projects include inventing coatings that enable oil and water to flow through pipes with greater efficiency and considering solutions for how to cool nuclear reactors more effectively.

LiquiGlide is food grade and made of FDA-approved food materials. Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT who runs the group that developed LiquiGlide, said, “It could even be made of organic food materials for the Whole Foods crowd.”

Works for me.

On to invention number two: A 2-wheel car? Or untippable motorcycle? Whatever it is, I want one (unembeddable, excellent video at link):

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“It brings the safety of a car on the motorcycle platform.”


Lit Motors calls it the C-1… It uses gyroscopes to stay balanced in a straight line and in turns in which drivers can, in theory, roll down their windows and drag their knuckles on the ground.

Is it a motorcycle? A car? Neither. It’s an entirely new form of personal transportation, presuming it gets off the ground.

The all-electric vehicle is fully enclosed and uses a steering wheel and floor pedals like a car. But it weighs just 800 pounds and balances on two wheels even when stopped, making it more efficient than hauling around a 2-ton four-wheeler and safer than an accident-prone bike. [...]

The C-1, or Concept 1, uses the same type of electronically controlled gyroscopes as the Hubble Space Telescope. Two counter-rotating gyroscopes are mounted into the floor of the vehicle, working together to maintain balance in a turn, a straight line or at rest.

Sadly, it doesn’t go into production until 2014. They’re shooting for a top speed of 120 miles per hour and 220 miles per charge using an 8-kilowatt-hour lithium iron phosphate battery pack. The starting price would be $24,000, which is comparable to a high-end Harley-Davidson.

Of course, the GOP would call these new-fangled gizmos socialist Marxist attempts to increase spending on things people, you know, use, and might even buy, and we can’t have that.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/05/...nventions/
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#2
No one else likes the C-1????
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#3
Uses electricity.. Completely wrong environmentally.. CA. already has enough brown outs..
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#4
I like it. Smiling
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(05-26-2012, 04:20 PM)PonderThis Wrote: I like it. Smiling

Big Grin Wink
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(05-26-2012, 03:21 PM)hillclimber Wrote: Uses electricity.. Completely wrong environmentally.. CA. already has enough brown outs..

There's no logic behind that response because there is no expectations that electric cars can't be handled by the existing grid. Most will be charged at night when there is very little use of transmission lines.
Electric cars are not wrong environmentally because you WANT to think so. They are VERY RIGHT environmentally when the facts are weighed with out bias.
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(05-26-2012, 04:57 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(05-26-2012, 03:21 PM)hillclimber Wrote: Uses electricity.. Completely wrong environmentally.. CA. already has enough brown outs..

There's no logic behind that response because there is no expectations that electric cars can't be handled by the existing grid. Most will be charged at night when there is very little use of transmission lines.
Electric cars are not wrong environmentally because you WANT to think so. They are VERY RIGHT environmentally when the facts are weighed with out bias.

I guess it depends on what form of energy is creating your electricity.
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#8
It's pretty.
It's sleek.
It's fast.
I can't see it as being much safer than a motorcycle as far as other motorists seeing you...but at least you don't have to stick your feet out when you drive up to a red light.
A lot nicer in inclement weather, too.
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(05-26-2012, 08:49 PM)hillclimber Wrote:
(05-26-2012, 04:57 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(05-26-2012, 03:21 PM)hillclimber Wrote: Uses electricity.. Completely wrong environmentally.. CA. already has enough brown outs..

There's no logic behind that response because there is no expectations that electric cars can't be handled by the existing grid. Most will be charged at night when there is very little use of transmission lines.
Electric cars are not wrong environmentally because you WANT to think so. They are VERY RIGHT environmentally when the facts are weighed with out bias.

I guess it depends on what form of energy is creating your electricity.

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#10
Might be fun to try.. But you are trapped like a rat on a sinking ship if it ever gets in a collision with a car.
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#11
right. we should all drive tanks.
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(05-26-2012, 10:42 PM)bbqboy Wrote: right. we should all drive tanks.

No, you drive that thing and I will drive the tank.
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(05-26-2012, 08:49 PM)hillclimber Wrote:
(05-26-2012, 04:57 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(05-26-2012, 03:21 PM)hillclimber Wrote: Uses electricity.. Completely wrong environmentally.. CA. already has enough brown outs..

There's no logic behind that response because there is no expectations that electric cars can't be handled by the existing grid. Most will be charged at night when there is very little use of transmission lines.
Electric cars are not wrong environmentally because you WANT to think so. They are VERY RIGHT environmentally when the facts are weighed with out bias.

I guess it depends on what form of energy is creating your electricity.

Not really. Regardless of how your power is generated, even if it's from coal it's STILL better for the environment to drive an electric car. It's been estimated that an electric car who's batteries are charged with coaled fired generated electricity still only cause half as much pollution as a gasoline driven vehicle.
Also. Electricity does not have to be shipped or trucked to millions of locations like gasoline.
Electric cars don't need oil changes every 3 thousand miles. They don't use any fuel or pollute when they sit still.
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(05-27-2012, 09:49 AM)tvguy Wrote: Not really. Regardless of how your power is generated, even if it's from coal it's STILL better for the environment to drive an electric car. It's been estimated that an electric car who's batteries are charged with coaled fired generated electricity still only cause half as much pollution as a gasoline driven vehicle.
Also. Electricity does not have to be shipped or trucked to millions of locations like gasoline.
Electric cars don't need oil changes every 3 thousand miles. They don't use any fuel or pollute when they sit still.

And that's not an opinion, that's fact. Smiling
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#15
Big Grin



Laughing
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#16
(05-27-2012, 09:55 PM)jan Wrote: Big Grin



Laughing

They should have tried to out run the copsBig Grin
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#17
That's funny. Is that photo (avatar) you? You look familiar.
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(05-27-2012, 10:04 PM)jan Wrote: That's funny. Is that photo (avatar) you? You look familiar.

It's Harvey Korman fron Blazing saddles.Big Grin
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(05-28-2012, 10:31 AM)tvguy Wrote:
(05-27-2012, 10:04 PM)jan Wrote: That's funny. Is that photo (avatar) you? You look familiar.

It's Harvey Korman fron Blazing saddles.Big Grin

Laughing I was just playing silly. And I thought you were the witty one around here. Razz
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(05-30-2012, 09:54 PM)jan Wrote:
(05-28-2012, 10:31 AM)tvguy Wrote:
(05-27-2012, 10:04 PM)jan Wrote: That's funny. Is that photo (avatar) you? You look familiar.

It's Harvey Korman fron Blazing saddles.Big Grin

Laughing I was just playing silly. And I thought you were the witty one around here. Razz

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