Let’s talk about history for a bit. Just last June, archeologists from Cambridge and Ghent produced a revolutionary bit of research for the journal, Antiquity. In it, they described some problems and placed them against the immense possibilities that might come from the use of ground-penetrating radar surveys (GRS) on archeological sites. Here’s where it gets revolutionary. They were also able to map out a large chunk of the buried Roman city of Falerii Novi without any digging. GRS vs. Excavations Instead, they had a quad bike and wheeled around their GRS equipment to survey the city. Like a bat, GRS uses radio signals and sends them underground. The echoes…

Drenched from the light of an ice-coated moon, the grass of the thousand field marsh split each side of a sliver wind. A top it rode Shimmy Gripples, eyes blazing, hand of ice and the other of fire gripping the reins of these links. Tomàs Barceló – A sculptor since he was a child, Tomàs creates busts and more with a sci-fi/fantasy twist that The Far Side Returns – Gary Larson, yes, the creator of The Far Side strip, is back… Well, not back, he’s doing ‘new stuff’ – DIGITAL stuff. And it’s amazing. Jeep Gladiator – Assembled by FCA since the beginning of 2019, this shows the assembly line…

Right now, an NYT article on the #vanlife business boom is trending on LinkedIn. It looks like a lot of professionals are dumping cash into glamping vans with so many of us barred from offices during these lockdown times. You’re geographically free! Might as well travel the country and live in a van, right? Hold on there, partner. Before you dump $100k into a lifestyle the late Chris Farley famously mocked, please hear out some cautions. Why listen to warnings from me, though? Because I bought a van for vanlife — or at least to turn into a mobile office — before all the other engineers thought it was cool.…

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a method of using holography in 3D printing. Holography is an optical method of producing and recording a three-dimensional light field by using multiple light sources to create an interference field. You’ve likely seen holograms from time to time; they are those strange images that suddenly burst into apparent full 3D when properly illuminated. What’s happening is that the illumination allows the recording to reproduce something close to the original interference pattern, and thus the original 3D image becomes visible. What on Earth would this have to do with 3D printing, you ask? I did too, but it seems there are some…

As they say, “distance makes the heart grow fonder.” Not quite limited to love between people, some things undoubtedly get better with some time or space apart. When you come back to a book you loved in high school, it can feel exciting, like reading it for the first time. If you limit your trips to your favorite restaurant every other month, like a special treat, you’re more likely to savor each visit. If, in the Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D455, you widen the gap between the sensors to 95 mm, a considerable increase compared to the D435’s total length of 90 mm, then you get equally exciting results. A…

It’s wasn’t too many years ago that inspecting a bridge, evaluating safe passage, or planning a route took a brave soul to volunteer or a less brave soul to draw the short straw. Now, we just send a robot or, better yet, a drone to scope the area and if 2020 will be remembered for anything… *ahem*, on such a list will be advancements in drone technology. Skydio has been one leading the charge in advanced drone capabilities. Today, they announced the Skydio X2 drones, along with new apps and a new $100M Series C funding round. It is the culmination of 10+ years of autonomous drone R&D to address…