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Testing Shoes That Make You Walk 250% Faster

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What if you could walk way faster without trying any harder? Moonwalkers basically put an electric moving sidewalk right under your feet.

The Future of Machines That Move like Animals | Robert Katzschmann | TED

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Imagine a boat that propels by moving its "tail" from side to side, just like a fish. That's the kind of machine that TED Fellow Robert Katzschmann's lab builds: soft-bodied robots that imitate natural movements with artificial, silent muscles.

What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes

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Energy use can be confusing – I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house? That's why we made these things spud-tacularly simple.

Civilian Tries on NASA Spacesuit For the First Time

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How does WIRED's Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit?

Could a solar storm destroy modern civilization? - Fabio Pacucci

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Explore the science of solar storms, and find out why they occur and just how prepared we are for a major event.

Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

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How close are we to having fully autonomous vehicles on the roads? Are they safe? In Chandler, Arizona a fleet of Waymo vehicles are already in operation. Waymo sponsored this video and provided access to their technology and personnel. Check out their safety report here:

How Does A Carburetor Work?

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Air flows into the top of the carburetor from the car's air intake, passing through a filter that cleans it of debris..

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

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Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years.

The Ancient City of Sela | Lost Cities With Albert Lin

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Albert Lin is in the ancient city of Sela, Jordan looking for clues that the Nabateans once inhabited this area.

Primitive Technology: 4 years of primitive technology

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4 years of primitive technology.

1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook

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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.

How did NASA Steer the Saturn V?

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The Saturn V rocket took humans the moon for the first time.

Why the Future of Cars is Electric

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Electric cars are now ready to take over thanks to advances in battery technology and their inherent benefits: torque, handling, maintenance.

Everything About Grain Bins (Farmers are Geniuses) - Smarter Every Day

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Farmers are actual real life geniuses. They can feed themselves and fix anything. Serious respect.

How to Sail on Sunlight | Because Space

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Sails have been helping us travel across water for centuries, but could this same idea help us travel across space?

What Can The Most Powerful Satellites Really Do?

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How powerful are satellites up in space right now? What can they do to help us on Earth?

How do self-driving cars “see”?

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Take a look at the LIDAR and integrated photonics technologies that help self-driving cars navigate obstacles, no matter the environment, weather or light.

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

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I got upset that my package was stolen so I made a glitter bomb revenge package.

Elon Musk and Gayle King test drive his new Boring Company tunnel

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From electric cars to spacecraft, tech titan Elon Musk is widely known as an industry disrupter. Tuesday night in Los Angeles, Musk unveiled the very first tunnel in what he hopes will become a network of underground highways.