This stunning photography captured by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) shows a real time avalanche occurring on Mars (see the dust cloud, and motion of it, at the bottom of that layered rise).
I was simply impressed by the level of detail.  I don’t know what it would take scientists to […]

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The BBC is reporting that a US/Austrailian Company called Emotiv, will be releasing a non-vaporware headset that reads the brains electrical activity and translates them into commands that a video game can understand.
From Ms. Le, President of Emotiv: “Emotiv is a neuro-engineering company and we’ve created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in […]

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No I am not talking about African Americans (or any derivative thereof), rather I am talking about Space.  A recently graduated engineer, John Benac working for Boeing in Seattle, found out that one could submit questions for the upcoming CNN/Politico Debates.  He saw it as an opportunity for engineers everywhere to have their voices heard (why […]

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Research Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are developing a torrent (peer-to-peer) network for car-to-car data transfers.  The transfers would be small in byte sizes but would transfer information like traffic reports, road hazards, entertainment, advertisements (of course - and I have no idea how one is suppose to pay attention to this […]

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