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Article: 12 Trends that will shape the future of the car industry by 2030
Project IONIQ Lab is an innovative long-term research project aiming to redefine future transport and mobility. The team has predicted 12 “megatrends” to shape the future of the car industry by 2030. https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/stories/12-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-the-car-industry-by-2030.html
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Video: How butterflies inspired a new type of paint
Cypris Materials has developed a tunable structural color coating that can be applied directly to surfaces as a paint. Their technology can improve building and automobile energy efficiency by reflecting UV, visible, and infrared light, and it expands the available color pallet while eliminating the use of toxic pigments and colorants.
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Video: What’s the best fuel for your car?
Dig into which fuel— gasoline, electric, biofuels, or electrofuels— is both affordable for consumers and sustainable for the planet.
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Video: Why F1 Engines are Built with Sand
Sand printing is similar to 3D printing; layers of 0.25mm thick sand are ‘printed’ onto a jobbox with a layer of chemical binder in between allowing for complex 3D shapes to be made, slice by slice, layer by layer. It’s so good that F1, LMP1, LMP2, WRC, WRX and Moto GP use this tech to…
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Airbrush Useful For Making Microelectrodes, Not Just Art
The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future… in technology. A group of engineering students have come up with a method for using an airbrush to make microelectrodes — tiny conductors used in an increasing range of consumer, research and medical products. The technique is simpler than the standard one,…
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Video Lesson: How do self-driving cars “see”?
It’s late, pitch dark and a self-driving car winds down a narrow country road. Suddenly, three hazards appear at the same time. With no human at the wheel, the car uses smart eyes, sensors that’ll resolve these details all in a split-second. How is this possible? Sajan Saini explains how LIDAR and integrated photonics technology…
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Article: Fashion Forward- Fabrics of the Future
Fashion’s future is getting brighter. And as consumers become even more conscious about the clothing they wear, brands, designers and engineers alike are responding by creating new and emerging technologies that can meet — or exceed — shoppers’ greater expectations. Here, WWD lists the top 10 innovations across fabrics such as denim, nylon, silk and…
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Article: Cars will change more in the next decade than they have in the past century
While the look and feel of our cars has changed in the past 100 years, the way we drive them hasn’t. But fundamental change is coming. In the next decade, not only will the way they’re powered and wired have shifted dramatically, but we won’t be the ones driving them anymore. https://theconversation.com/cars-will-change-more-in-the-next-decade-than-they-have-in-the-past-century-113585
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Video: Electricity Makes This Car Paint Light Up
LumiLor is a spray on paint that illuminates in the dark. It’s not LED light, nor is it glow-in-the-dark paint, but a special kind of paint that turns on and off by reacting to an electric charge. We dive into the characteristics of this bewildering material and meet Andy Zsenko of Darkside Scientific, Inc. who…
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Video: FELTED MUSICAL LANDSCAPE
Interactive felted textile – Felted capacitive sensors + piano arduino code (lilypad arduino). Project for MIT New Textiles Course 2012.
