April 18, 2007

Indestructible USB Thumb Drive

Next time one of your gadgets breaks don’t toss it in the trash, engineer and construct a housing so that it can’t break again. At least that is what Russell Jones, an engineering student from New Jersey did! “The aim of this project was fairly straight forward. The keychain ring on my Corsair 1GB Flash Voyager USB drive from Newegg broke, which left the poor thing prone to be left

Rolling Road Wind Tunnel

At first glance I thought this rolling road made by Haas Automation and Jacobs Engineering was a picture of a toy car on an inverted belt sander. “The one-millimeter thick continuous steel belt will roll at over 180mph, and features sensors under the bed that can take readings at each wheel. At top speed the wind tunnel fan will circulate 2.85 million cubic feet of air per minute! The facility