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Video Of The Week — Pumpkin Carving Goes Hi-Tech When NASA Engineers Get Involved

NASA scientists can build rockets, send men to the moon, and may soon even help establish a colony on Mars. But can they carve pumpkins? That was the challenge posed to the brilliant engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA six years ago, during Halloween. The friendly competition has since become an annual tradition with teams trying to outdo each other with increasingly hi-tech carvings....

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Video Of The Week — Pumpkin Carving Goes Hi-Tech When NASA Engineers Get Involved

Video Of The Week — Letvision's BMW Letron Is Almost As Good As Optimus Prime

Turkish technology company Letvision recently revealed a working prototype of a real-life transformer that will make all Autobot and Decepticon fans swoon! The company says the idea to build “Letrons” came about during a brainstorming session to create a unique and futuristic project. It took the team of twelve engineers and four supporting technicians, eight months to build the first prototype, unveiled in late September....

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Video Of The Week — Letvision's BMW Letron Is Almost As Good As Optimus Prime

Video Of The Week — Futuristic Elevated Bus Begins Test Runs In China

Earlier this year, a team of engineers led by China’s Song Youzhou suggested that a massive elevated bus that straddled above normal-sized vehicles was the key to easing the world’s traffic woes. Though the concept of the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) unveiled at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo on May 22 generated a lot of excitement, most people were skeptical that it would ever become a reality. But they were wrong....

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Video Of The Week — Futuristic Elevated Bus Begins Test Runs In China