Airbus designed a new chair to save passengers during a crash landing

Airbus has filed a patent application that reveals a kind of seat for its aircraft that in an event of crash landing will make sure a passenger doesn’t get hurt. In general, a floor of an aircraft has rails. Chairs are fastened to these rails so that they can slide independently – for adjustment or …

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Boeing patent proposes installing solar panels in trains for contactless energy transfer

Boeing, no doubt, is one of the most innovative companies in the world. Time and again, they come with innovations that use to be out of the box and leave you in a state of awe – a method to harness noise in an airport into electricity, for example. While the whole world is using …

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The Earth is running out of Helium and we can’t do anything about it

And the problem is way more severe than the problem of a world without petroleum. We have multiple alternatives for petroleum, ethanol-based fuel, for example. But for many practical applications, helium is non-renewable with no alternatives, whatsoever. At present, helium is available in the market at a cheap price – I will explain the reason …

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Boeing will use 3D printed thermoplastic to kill a long standing problem in aircraft

Managing noise inside aircraft or within any enclosed space for that matter has been a challenge for engineers for a long time.  At present, drywall, foam sheets, end-grain balsa like materials are used as sound dampeners. The problems with these solutions are that they don’t absorb sound on the basis of their shape but on …

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Sony: Wirelessly charging your phone using your friend’s phone will soon be possible

Whenever my battery was about to die while I was enjoying someone’s free WiFi, I always thought “how beautiful it would be if this WiFi hotspot could transfer the battery juice like it transfers data!”. I can bet I’m not alone. Charging your phone using your friend’s phone wirelessly is something you might have thought …

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Qualcomm: Simultaneously Call Two Person Without Using A Conference Call or Putting Someone on Hold

Simultaneously receiving calls from your mother and girlfriend is like a sword hanging over your head. You can’t put anyone on hold and can’t even merge the two calls into a conference call. The blame is on smartphones, we own. At present, if you receive calls on both of your SIMs, your smartphone provides you …

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