This wind-powered car built from scratch by a 55-year-old farmer could be the most eco-friendly vehicle on the planet. Taking only 90-days to design and construct and costing just £1,000 the ten-foot-long motor can reach an incredible top speed of 85 miles-per-hour. Power is generated when the car starts and stops, which is saved in a battery to be used to power the fan at the front of the machine. It's creator, Tang Zhenping from the Tongzhou district of Beijing hopes to collaborate with a major automotive manufacturer.
15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.
Long drive champion Jamie Sadlowski joined Gary Williams for a friendly competition in the Golf Channel studios. One drive by Sadlowski was all it took to put a hole through the simulator and an end to the game.
In this video, the Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA's Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). To maneuver over and around the obstacles, the robot exercises capabilities including autonomous decision-making, dismounted mobility and dexterity. The DARPA Robotics Challenge will test these and other capabilities in a series of tasks that will simulate conditions in a dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environment.
