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Backyard Aeronautics: Chinese Farmers Who Also Make Flying Machines

According to photographer Xiaoxiao Xu, the Chinese farmers and other rural hobbyists building flying machines from scratch are not in it for fame or fortune. Mostly working out of their own ...

Shaolin Flying Monks Temple: Wind Tunnel Facilitates Midair Kung Fu Fighting

Mixing modern architecture and traditional arena theater design, the Shaolin Flying Monks Temple features a massive wind tunnel that lets combatants in rural Henan, China, fly and fight in front ...

Lightweight & Portable Egg-Shaped Drone Folds Up Into Shell

Boasting practical portability with an eye to aesthetics, the new PowerEgg stands out against its more ungainly competitors, able to fold up into a smooth oval when not in ...

Dubai Commissions Fleet of Jetpacks to Fight Skyscraper Fires

Well known for its high-tech aspirations as well as architectural exuberance, the city of Dubai has begun ordering jetpacks for use by emergency services personnel in combating elevated blazes ...

Droneport: New UAV Hub to Ship Medical Supplies Across Rwanda

This architect-designed drone airport will be the first of its kind, created to facilitate an unmanned aerial vehicle supply chain servicing remote areas of Africa, addressing urgent medical ...

Hello World: Precise Aerial Art Drawn by Light-Painting Drones

Highlighting the capabilities of high-precision aerial drones, this series of LED words and patterns could be the future of everything from midair advertising to digital fireworks displays. ...

Drones for Life: 13 Fun & Positive Flying Robot Functions

Instead of raining death and destruction, these 13 drones deliver defibrillators and piping hot pizza, save drowning victims, mix the perfect cocktails, clean ocean pollution and even take your ...

Real-Time Billboard: Sign Points at Actual Planes Flying By

The ability to track planes in mid-flight has produced many apps and websites for following jets through friendly skies, but this ad campaign applies this same data in a fun new way. The ...

Flying Robots: 6 Stunning Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Projects

From the MIT Senselab quadcopter and ETH Zurich self-assembling multicopter to DIY drones mounted with paintball guns, toy rockets and automatic weapons, flying robots are quickly making their ...

Future Architecture: 7 Surreal Award-Winning Skyscrapers

The first skyscrapers were impossible drawings at the times they were imagined, yet today glass towers that scale to the skies are everyday structures.  On land, by sea, in the air (or in one ...

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