Is o nly going up in the elevator getting you down? Not for much longer: ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has announced that it’s building the next generation of elevators that will use magnetic levitation to travel up, down and side-to-side at speed in the buildings of the future. Read more…
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Future Elevators Will Use Maglev to Go Up, Down—and Sideways
Martin Vargic made a very interesting chart that shows what the world’s largest army was throughout history, from 2500 BC until now. He split up the world into “west” and “east” to show which countries or dynasties or empires were dominating different parts of the world. Read more…
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Chart: Which country has the world’s largest army throughout history?
The power shortages, brown-outs, and rolling blackouts that have long plagued Los Angeles county during times of peak energy usage may soon be a thing of the past now that the region’s energy utility has signed on with battery-maker AES Southland to install a massive, 400MW auxiliary power solution. Read more…
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A California Power Plant Is Getting the World’s Biggest Lithium Battery
The amount of meticulous detail and genius craftsmanship and microscopic precision that goes into one of these Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime 5175R is ridiculous. Just watching the little pieces fit together is like seeing the most beautiful puzzle ever get completed. It better be, since the watch costs $2.5 million. Read more…
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Seeing the world’s most complicated watch get built is pretty incredible
Most movies are works of fiction, but the plots are based on real-world ideas. Including, apparently, the nightmarish future put forth in Terminator 2 . A team of researchers from North Carolina State University decided the world would be a better place with terrifying shape-shifting T-1000s, and so have developed a way to control and manipulate liquid metals. Maybe they didn’t watch the whole movie? Read more…
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Foolish Scientists Have Just Created Shape-Shifting Metal
If you thought 8 TB was plenty , think again. Western Digital just announced that it has added a 10 TB hard drive to its HelioSeal product line. Read more…
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The World’s Biggest Hard Drive Is Now Ten TB, Not Eight
The most valuable stamp in the world is a red smudge , but the coolest postal payments just might be these itty bitty stickies from 1970s Bhutan. They’d legally get your letter where it needed to go, and play the country’s national anthem (yes, really!). Read more…
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These Bhutanese Postal Stamps Play Like Real Vinyl Records
In most parts of the world, cable cars are relegated to ski areas or amusement parks. But in South America, cities use the gondolas to navigate undulating terrain as public transportation. This fall, two more lines will open in Bolivia’s La Paz-El Alto network, making it the longest urban cable car system in the world. Read more…
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Watch How Bolivia Built the World’s Longest Urban Cable Car System
Danish researchers just created the Usain Bolt of networks. A team from the Technical University of Denmark used a single multi-core optical fiber to transfer 43 terabits per second, making it the world’s fastest fiber network . I’d say it makes Google Fiber look like 1996 AOL dial-up from a decrepit rural phone line, but that comparison is too kind to Google Fiber. Read more…
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The World’s Fastest Network Lets You Download a Movie In .2 Milliseconds
Since building something that’s conventional is out of the question for Dubai, the second-largest United Arab Emirates city announced today that it’s breaking ground on the world’s largest shopping mall. Read more…
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Dubai Is Obviously Building the World’s Biggest Mall