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EasyJet “Sneakairs”: Airline is testing smart shoes to help customers explore destinations May 13, 2016 No joke: EasyJet wants to launch "Sneakairs" – smart shoes – to help travellers explore cities. The airline has unveiled a prototype smart shoe with built-in technology that aims to help customers explore new cities with ease, so they can take in sites and surroundings. Read more: EasyJet is testing hybrid planes using hydrogen fuel [...]
The return of the supersonic brand and designing flights of the future April 26, 2016 The new generation of supersonic planes could defy all design conventions. Concorde may be long retired from the skies but the romance and excitement of supersonic travel lives on, a new age of aviation is now on the horizon. Earlier this month, NASA announced it is developing a range of supersonic ‘X-planes’ that could ultimately lead to [...]
Solar Impulse 2 follows the sun around the world from Abu Dhabi March 9, 2015 SWISS adventurers Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg yesterday took off from Abu Dhabi on a round-the-world flight – with no jet feul. The plane, the “Solar Impulse 2”, is powered by 12,000 solar cells on the wings and weighs about the same as a family car. It can run both day and night off solar [...]
This is how cities will look in the future – solar-powered, self-sufficient and fitted with a super-fast transport network February 27, 2015 Next year, the world's most futuristic city will be built between Los Angeles and San Fransisco. Called Quay Valley, it will function using just solar power, be completely self-sufficient and transport its citizens using the fastest ever transport network. The California-based company behind the idea is GROW Holdings, which develops green technologies and [...]
Elon Musk: “I didn’t think SpaceX or Tesla would work” June 9, 2014 Billionaire tech titan Elon Musk – the brain behind Tesla electric cars, a project to colonise Mars and Hyperloop – has more ideas in a year than most people in a lifetime. But speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, the serial entrepreneur admitted that he hasn’t always had faith that things will come [...]
Musk unveils Hyperloop concept August 12, 2013 AMERICAN entrepreneur Elon Musk last night set out details of what he believes will be the future of transport – an air-propelled pod sent through a low-friction tube suspended on pylons over California, going by the name of Hyperloop. Musk, the founder of Paypal and Tesla Motors, published an open source design of the concept, [...]
Elon Musk’s Hyperloopalooza runs out of steam before reaching the UK August 14, 2013 Hopes that the Hyperloop travel concept could work for Britain are vanishing faster than you can say “Concorde crossed with a rail gun crossed with an air hockey table”. Transport-watchers were quick to point out the practical flaws in the ambitious pod-cum-monorail idea set out by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to much hullabaloo on Monday [...]
Tech guru Elon Musk gears up to unveil the fifth form of transport August 11, 2013 THE MAN behind Paypal and Tesla Motors is today due to publish designs for the world’s fastest rail service, named Hyperloop. Elon Musk has until now kept enthusiasts guessing about the details of his “fifth form of transport,” which could one day offer supersonic inter-city travel. The billionaire entrepreneur said in May that the idea [...]
Disruptive technology isn’t a miracle: We can harness its future power now | City A.M. December 20, 2013 THE ASTONISHING rise of firms like Twitter (founded just seven years ago, yet now expected to float for $10bn), is often seen as a grand romantic narrative – an exciting story, difficult to predict. But transformation, disruption, and change should be easier to forecast. The only weapon we need is the deceptively simple power of [...]
A new breed of super-entrepreneurs could leave HS2 looking antiquated September 8, 2013 FOR A mode of transport that first arrived in the nineteenth century, railways have been remarkably resilient. All three major political parties currently support the creation of a new high speed rail network, High Speed 2 (HS2), a £43bn plan to connect London Euston, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, and the East Midlands in two phases. [...]