The conceptual Krasoevich Bridge looks like a colossal transforming dragonfly that has come to life. Ordos District, Inner Mongolia Region, Western China. The local authorities decided that they wanted not just a bridge over the Ulanmulun River, but a technogenic landmark, for which they ordered a corresponding project to the British architect Margo Krasoevich. And what is already looming is least

Thanks to the accommodative system of the eye, we can clearly see the surrounding objects located at different distances from us. It can be compared to a camera lens with which the required focus is set. Physicists of the Tyumen State University managed to create an artificial analogue of the accommodation system. To do this, they synthesized a special solution that has the property of collecting

If you have dreamed of living as a hermit away from civilization all your life, but at the same time having access to electricity (just in case), then the New York company Pedal Power has something for you. The firm has developed a design that will allow, sitting at a table and simply pedaling, to generate electricity. Pedal Power offers two modifications of this useful device: Big Rig and Genny.

New fractal design will increase the efficiency of solar power plants by 20% Engineers from the US Sandia National Laboratories have designed an unusual version of the energy receiver for power plants, in which sunlight is concentrated by mirrors at one point. This will allow absorbing almost all radiation and significantly increase the efficiency of the installation. In a typical solar power plan

Hackers easily tricked Tesla's autopilot with a piece of sticky tape Tesla promises to release an electric car with fully autonomous control, but at the same time they strictly insist - always keep your hands when driving on the steering wheel. The last claim was recently proven by hackers at McAfee's service. With the help of a symbolic piece of dark electrical tape, they tricked Tesla's onboard

Found vulnerability allows hackers to hack hundreds of thousands of heart implants Security firm Clever Security has discovered a serious and potentially highly dangerous vulnerability in Medtronic defibrillator implants. It affects 16 models, with a total of about 750, 000 copies already installed on different patients. Hackers can connect to such implants and disrupt their work, but the manufact

Three bottles of the world's oldest Gautier cognac from 1762 have long belonged to the Donsier family, where they have been kept since 1870. However, their 258-year history may come to an unexpected end on May 28, when the unique cognac is finally put up for auction. It is worth noting that Gauthier's company, which turned 265 years old, still exists today. One of the three surviving bottles is in

Mechanical diaphragms for optical devices were not invented yesterday, but they all have one fundamental feature - they are controlled from the outside. Therefore, if we want to create a man-made "eye" that should react to light in the same way as a real one, we will have to equip it with an illumination sensor and a controller. Cumbersome and inconvenient, but a team of Finnish and Polish scienti

Wi-Fi chip invented, consuming 100 times less power A unique chip developed by NASA will significantly increase the operating time of mobile devices using Wi-Fi communication technology. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher Adrian Tan and UCLA professor Frank Chang have developed a Wi-Fi chip that consumes a hundred times less power than existing models. Receiving any information from the I

Designed a T-shirt that generates electricity to recharge gadgets Researchers at the Faculty of Science at the University of Malaga (UMA, Spain) have developed an inexpensive T-shirt that generates electricity from the difference between the temperature of the human body and the environment. This is made possible by a special fabric developed in conjunction with the Italian Institute of Technology

The Austrian company Giesswein has just unveiled the world's first line of Wool Cross X sports shoes made entirely of merino wool. It has a number of advantages: it is warm in winter and cool in summer, it absorbs 5 times more sweat than ordinary shoes, it blocks unpleasant odors and can be worn without socks. The Wool Cross X is designed for hiking in summer and winter and is even suitable for ro

Kampung Admiralty Pension in Singapore named International Building of the Year The most outstanding project of the year was chosen at the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. This is the Kampung Admiralty residential development in Singapore from WOHA, which rebuilt several old high-rise buildings into a new multi-level recreational area. It is designed to meet the needs of older citize

Multi-touch stickers will transform the human body into a remote control In 2015, scientists from the University of Saarland presented their development iSkin - small stickers on the skin that respond to touch and send a signal to a smartphone. Today this technology has matured to the creation of full-fledged touch interfaces, which are called Multi-Touch Skin. It will allow the transmission of co

Scientists believe cat videos fill people with positive energy According to statistics, Internet views of videos featuring cats are breaking all imaginable and inconceivable records, which has attracted the attention of scientists. So last year, 2 million "cat videos" were registered on YouTube with 26 billion views. According to the research conducted, in the process of these views, positive emot