by Michael Belfiore | Nov 15, 2010 | Blog
Often a breakthrough idea needs to come at just the right time to be successful. Inventor Charles Pooley believes the time for a new field of small, cheap satellite launchers has arrived. He’s been working on the concept in Mojave, CA for years, and a...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 12, 2010 | Blog
NASA’s Chief Technologist, Bobby Braun, mentioned on The Space Show today that his office was teaming up with DARPA on a couple of projects. I emailed show host David Livingston to ask him to get Braun to elaborate. Braun said that there are three projects that...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog
Check out Popular Mechanics’s inside view of smart vehicle tech in progress at BMW’s Munich headquarters. Cars that park themselves are already on the market, but the next gen tech goes a step further with remote control parking. Get out of the vehicle and...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2010 | Blog
DARPA’s autonomous flying vehicle program, called Transformer, or TX, has just gone autonomous. Carnegie Mellon’s robotics department, already a main TX contractor, has been given the assignment to let the vehicle fly itself. “The TX is all about...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2010 | Blog
My book The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs, has just come out in paperback. It’s mostly the same as the hardcover, with a few corrections here and there. And it’s only $14.99. My...
