engineering
-
Why The Drinking Bird Toy Is Actually A Brilliant Piece Of Thermodynamic Engineering
At some point in your life you’ve almost certainly marveled at the classic drinking bird toy, and probably lost a few brain cells trying to figure out how it works. Don’t be ashamed if you never successfully unravelled the science, though, as engineerguy Bill Hammack explains, even Einstein apparently couldn’t crack it.
-
Robots Made From DNA Could One Day Transport Medicine Inside Your Body
In the classic 1966 American science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine crew was miniaturised and injected into a body to fix a blood clot in the brain. That obviously isn’t how future medical science is going to work, but the notion of creating microscopic machines to perform complex tasks is certainly on point. A…
-
Brilliant Staircase Design Stores Extra Energy To Make It Easier To Climb Later
Do you deliberately avoid visiting friends who live in multi-story buildings without an elevator? No one would fault you — having to climb even just a single flight of stairs is like being forced to work out against your will. But thanks to engineers at Georgia Tech and Emory University, stairs might one day do…
-
An Imaginative Aerospace Engineer Turned This Classic LEGO Space Shuttle Into A Flying Toy
Video: As a follow-up to turning the classic LEGO Solo Trainer set into a fully-functional RC plane, aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth is back with an even more impressive build: He somehow made this tiny 27-year-old LEGO Space Shuttle actually fly.