Tecnology

Engineer Christopher Terpstra, an industrial design graduate, designed the futuristic Blue Steel electric bicycle. The machine has features such as spokeless wheels, full suspension and a single-sided front fork. It’s hard to believe, but the enthusiast used a 1970s Schwinn women’s touring bike as a base, bought for only $10.

Christopher did a lot of work and had to replace many of the bike’s components. In addition, some parts of the tubular steel frame were made by him personally from one-inch steel tubing. The wheels are spokeless, where the rim is held in place by three nylon rollers. Nylon rollers are also used in the spring friction drive mechanism.

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Technology enthusiast NTDev, who deals with modifications to the Windows family of operating systems, has set a new record. The result is of no practical use and is steeped in sadness at the fact that official support for Windows 10 is about to expire. This version of the ‘windows’ operating system is considered to be one of the most successful in history, which is why enthusiasts are taking various measures to preserve it.

To set the record, we used the best available hardware and a special version of the operating system called Tiny10. This is a stripped-down version of Windows 10 that retains only the basic functions, so it can be used on almost any hardware, even very old ones. Another thing is that in order to get more or less bearable functionality after installing the operating system, you will have to deal with additional drivers, utilities and settings. But the fact is that working Windows 10 was installed in 104 seconds.

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Just over six months after the debut of the first eVTOL from the US company Doroni Aerospace, the new H1X model is ready. It is equipped with four lift and two thrust propellers to reach a cruising speed of 200 km/h during a 40-minute flight. The vehicle weighs 612 kg and can carry up to 200 kg of cargo.

The H1X’s ducted propellers are quieter and safer to operate than open propeller systems. Thanks to its compact size, the H1X fits easily into a typical garage and is compatible with rapid chargers that can charge batteries in just 25 minutes.

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Unitree’s achievements are not only impressive, but also far superior to those of its competitors. It is important to note that the H1’s legs are not driven by hydraulic actuators, but by conventional M107 electric motors. The humanoid maintains its balance even when you try to tip it over.

It performs a circular scan of the surrounding space with an Intel RealSense D435i camera, supplemented by a Livox MID360 lidar module and a depth sensor. Two Intel Core i7 chips are used for data processing.

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The properties of the new product are based on three factors. Firstly, a special light-sensitive AIE-DDPR material, the creation of which took decades. Secondly, the 100-layer encoding technology, in which the basic ‘spot’ for recording information occupies an area of only 54 nanometres. Thirdly, it uses a nanometric laser for extremely precise synchronisation of the reading and writing processes.

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