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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
This design is straight from the future, don’t you think? And yet Igarashi Design has unveiled an innovative single-seat helicopter you can buy and fly someday soon. (No word on pricing) The catch? you can’t have an instructor on board to help you fly it, so you need to take flight lessons first [...]
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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Now this is what I call being green! The first all-electric super bike from Vectrix sports a very innovative new look, and can top out at 124 miles per hour (or 200 kph.) It has no unsightly exhaust pipes spoiling the sleek new lines, no bulky engine, or fuel system, and I’ll bet [...]
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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
When I was at CNET we were obsessed with “Rascals” or personal mobility scooters. We would send away for literature and post pics on our office doors. Don’t ask me why. But I couldn’t help but marvel at this new concept design for a new and much improved mobility device.
This concept design [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
What’s up with Sony BMG? Of late, they seem to be open to trying new ideas which, based on their rootkit-like DRM and other issues in the past, seem out of character. First they sign a deal with Amazon MP3 for all DRM-free music, and now this!
Sony’s [...]
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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Google has begun offering secondary search boxes within their search results (above). Typical of Google offerings, not everyone is seeing the “feature” yet, as it rolls out to different data centers.
The secondary box restricts the search to the site in question. It seems like the searches that are most likely [...]
ShareBy Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Well, it certainly looks like one and almost behaves like any real UFO — except we have identified it.
We are talking about an exciting development at Entecho here in Australia where they are working on the Hoverpod, a manned aerial vehicle that not only can hover but also [...]
ShareBy Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I recently wrote a Flight Review on the Italian Sky Arrow for AVIATOR (Dec 2007 issue)
Have a look below at the article — sans pictures — as it appeared this month in one of Australia’s foremost aviation magazines.
The Inside on the Italian Job
Ever since I first saw pictures of the sleek [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
It’s no secret that Japan’s aging. In fact, the book, Pocket World in Figures (2004 Edition) indicates that the country has the highest media age at 41.3. It’s also predicted in that book that in 2050 Japan’s median age will be 53.2. I don’t have the 2005 edition [...]
