FLY, NOT DRIVE, TO BE GREENER
Meet Synergy aircraft. Its creator John McGinnis contends that flying will soon be cheaper and greener than driving. He claims new technology allows him and his team to produce planes that offer: Way more room. A quiet, smooth ride… with a view! Far greater economy, using better fuels. Easier operation. Greatly reduced travel time. True passenger safety. Far lower price. Quiet, friendly, neighborhood manners. Adaptability to hybrid, electric, and advanced engine technologies. Others have also been working to show this isn’t just a pipedream with the Yuneec electric sport airplane prototype ($89,000) and the highly fuel-efficient Pipistrel’s Panthera four-seater airplane. However Synergy promises the small passenger airplane “with a mesmeric […]
A LOLLI TO LULL HICCUPS
Inspiring eighth grader Mallory Kievman from Connecticut has invented a promising cure for hiccups. This isn’t your average science fair project, Kievman with the assistance of her pops has won “prizes for innovation and patentability (the pops are patent-pending) at the Connecticut Invention Convention competition for young entrepreneurs. And the University of Connecticut’s Innovation Accelerator is sending over some MBA students to help her out this summer,” according to New York Times. What started it all was simply a nasty bout of hiccups, after testing a 100 kitchen sink remedies like drinking saltwater, sipping water out of an upside-down cup, eating spoonfuls of sugar, slurping pickle juice. The result is […]