vulcan
Toys
The R/C Nerf Tank (Dun Dun Dunnnn)
7:40AM Mark Wilson | When alien archeologists dig up the remains of 2009, they will discover one accomplishment that stands above all others. It won’t be some new iPhone or even the LHC. It will be the Nerf Tank. More »
Toys
How To Hack a Nerf Vulcan to Fire 500 Rounds a Minute
6:00AM Sean Fallon | The Nerf Vulcan is definitely awesome—but it is not as cool as it could be. Manapotions have developed a hack that adds an LED round counter and a 500 round-per-minute firing capacity. More »
Science
Scientists Claiming Planet Vulcan May Exist Don’t Have Pointy Ears
10:54PM Jesus Diaz | Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, Dr Massimo Marengo–from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics–and Dr Dana Backman–from the SETI Institute–are claiming that there’s a solar system which is a younger twin of our own, just 10.5 light-years from us. Nothing surprising, really, until they tell you that the star is called Epsilon Eridani. Which just happens to be, hold your tinfoil hats on, the legendary home star of a certain Mr. Spock. According to Marengo, they have a pretty good idea of how it looks like: More »
Science
DARPA Unveils Details About the Mach 6 Vulcan Engine
8:20AM Sean Fallon | How does one design a propulsion system that combines a full-scale turbine engine and a Constant Volume Combustion (CVC) engine that is capable of delivering 12,000 pounds of payload up to 9,000 nautical miles from the continental United States in less than two hours? DARPA has released new details on how they plan on tackling this issue with their Vulcan engine–a ramjet / scramjet hybrid that will take an aircraft like the Falcon HTV-3X from 0 to Mach 4 with a traditional turbine engine, then kick in the CVC to push it to Mach 6 and beyond. More »
Gadgets
