It seems that the latest space shuttle mission which left the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 11th May 2009, has hit a slight glitch. The lift off appeared to go quite smoothly, however, upon close examination of the lift off footage from one of the cameras mounted on the fuel tank, clearly show some debris hitting the underside of the shuttle. Thankfully,...

On my usual read through autobloggreen.com I come across a rather interesting story about the Dodge EV. Even though I am currently working in the Auto industry it seems that I have been living in a box, since this is the first time I have come across this vehicle. The Dodge EV is Chrysler’s attempt to challenge the much hyped Tesla. While the Dodge EV is...

Boeing’s airborne laser project might be on slightly shaky grounds but this isn’t stopping them from the continued development of its fighter sized UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), named Phantom Ray. The UAV is going to be built using technology developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/U.S. Air Force/U.S. Navy...

EADS are proposing to add sails to satellites EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space company) have come up with an idea to reduce the number of future satellites from turning into space junk. The idea proposed by EADS is the addition of “sails”  such that orbiting satellites could passively drag themselves back to earth when no longer...

I’ve just seen this over at ohgizmo.com and had to re-post it over here. It has got to be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Yes, it’s a jet pack!!! Or as the people over at the  Martin Aircraft Company would prefer you call it – a ducted fanpack. Either way, it’s really cool. Not the thing for those eco-friendly people...

Not usually being one to comment on space related stuff, I find the need to comment on nasa.gov’s use of microsoft photosynth in their presentation of photos of the international space station. From the few times I have visited nasa.gov I have found that the images are always of the highest quality, but in this case of using MS photosynth for displaying...

When I first heard of Wolfram Alpha; I was a little bit shocked that such a good company would want to take on the mighty Google at their own game. But after further investigation it seems that Stephen Wolfram might actually be on to something. The idea of Wolfram Alpha is not to directly compete against Google in the search engine wars, but to create its...

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now. I’ve moved thequibble from being hosted over at wordpress to godaddy. The very techie / academic site that I was hosting over at godaddy has now past away and been buried . There are a couple of new features – firstly video / audio comments. This is provided by riffley.com, and seems to be working...