NASA Goddard NASA successfully launched the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission on April 5 from the Andøya Space Center in Norway. Two Black Brant XI-A sounding rockets were launched at 6:14 and 6:16 p.m. EDT on April 5 carrying scientific instruments for studying the energy exchange within an aurora. https://youtu.be/F0fQCCuoGfs

Print all-liquid 3-D structures Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to print 3-D structures composed entirely of liquids. Using a modified 3-D printer, they injected threads of water into silicone oil — sculpting tubes made of one liquid within another liquid. https://youtu.be/vrbNBiTZk5c

A-Rover 3 The A-Rover 3 is an autonomous amphibious robot for environmental monitoring and built for action. The Rover is designed specifically for long endurance bathymetric surveying in tailings ponds that are hard to access and with changing soil properties. It reduces time and cost of environmental monitoring, does not require an operator, and is … Continue reading A-Rover 3 – Autonomous Survey Robot. →

The SmartFlower The SmartFlower is a fully integrated, all-in-one solar system that can live anywhere. All it takes is a quick setup by one of our installers and you’ll be producing clean energy for your home or business. And if you ever have to move it, SmartFlower can be easily packed up and moved to … Continue reading The SmartFlower – All-in-one solar system →

OpenDrop V3 OpenDrop is a development part of a bigger ecosystem around digital biology with the aim of making personal lab-automation accessible to more people.A liquid reservoir to supply liquids onto the electrode array. The reservoirs allow to supply the chip with liquids and separate drops of same size. OpenDrop is a developement as part … Continue reading OpenDrop V3 – Digital microfluidics platform. →

DelFly Nimble The DelFly Nimble has no tail nor such control surfaces. Instead, it is controlled through insect-inspired adjustments of motion of its two pairs of flapping wings. The lack of the tail makes the DelFly Nimble less vulnerable to damage and highly agile, allowing also outdoors operation in light winds.Exceptional performance at hover, the … Continue reading DelFly Nimble – Controlled airplane through insect-inspired adjustments of motion. →

Magnetic Forcefeedback Actuators Iris Dynamics Actuators are designed specifically for human-machine interaction. They are silent and free of any mechanical backlash as only magnetic fields are used to transfer force. They output very smooth forces over their travel, which can be over a meter when needed. Fast vibrations and sharp haptic effects are possible due … Continue reading Magnetic Forcefeedback Actuators – magnetic fields force transfer Actuators . →

Ultra-thin “Meta-lens" Columbia Engineering researchers have created the first flat lens capable of correctly focusing a large range of colors of any polarization to the same focal spot without the need for any additional elements. Only a micron thick, their revolutionary "flat" lens is much thinner than a sheet of paper and offers performance comparable … Continue reading Ultra-thin “Meta-lens – Flat lens using meta-atoms of complex shapes . →

ZIGZAG® The ZIGZAG mechanical Prusik allows the user to move around efficiently in a tree using classic Prusik pulley system technique. The linked rings provide precision and fluidity when moving around. The pulley is mounted on sealed ball bearings to allow the slack to be taken up easily. The steel construction offers great durability. https://youtu.be/QFsqpNklrxk

V-EDGE™ Self retracting lifeline offers reduced downtime. Specifically engineered and tested for foot-level tie off, the V-EDGE™ Self Retracting Lifeline offers a dependable means for leading edge fall protection. The V-EDGE SRL can be used in a variety of applications, from over head to horizontal tie off points, and where sharp edges are a concern. … Continue reading V-EDGE™ – Self Retracting Lifeline. →