Fire trucks are too slow, when a fire breaks out they are at the scene days, even months later. (Although my girlfriend says otherwise) Well, here is a modified truck that will get anywhere to any fire in almost no time at all. That right folks, it’s a fire truck with a MIG 16 jet engine.

Top Gun for firemen. I’ll be Iceman. You can be Goose

Okay, it’s not really "Devil Wind," it’s "ionic wind," but all these scientific advancement sure do seem like the work of the Devil sometimes. Why, if we were back in Salem in 1692, we’d all be burned as witches. But, okay, for real, some researchers at Purdue University have created a method utilizing an "ionic engine" that creates positively charged particles that are then drawn to a negatively charged wire. This creates a movement of air that according to the researchers is 250% more effective in cooling components than regular fans. Their next demonic trick is the make the millimeter-sized device even smaller.

Ford announced that it could be on the verge of producing hydrogen cars into the market within the next 5 years if things go right.  They’ve been using 12 passenger shuttle buses powered by internal combustion hydrogen engines and it’s been the closet they’ve been to a mass production.

We really believe this technology is ready to be evaluated at the consumer level

They’ve been monitoring the buses across the United States, harping on the zero emissions and the greater fuel economy.  Go green earth!

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The electric companies want to keep their fingers in the consumer pie and continue to push for electric cars. Ford and Edison are embarking on this very project — in the creation of vehicles capable of being plugged into a power outlet. The new cars will use a combustion engine in a hybrid mode.

Details are forthcoming soon from a press conference in California.

Just when you thought the latest desktop computers couldn’t get any faster, think again.  A genius of a professor from the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering has developed something that could be the new wave of desktop computers.  Uzi Vishkin came up with a prototype which uses a method called parallel processing of a single chip.

The single-chip supercomputer prototype built by Prof. Uzi Vishkin’s group uses rich algorithmic theory to address the practical problem of building an easy-to-program multicore computer…Vishkin’s chip unites the theory of yesterday with the reality of today
 

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By the way, he’s also letting the public come up with a name. My suggestion? I have none.