The C-1 vehicle is promoted as the future of transportation given so many more people are driving alone. It combines the excitement of a motorcycle with the stability of a car. The rear area is large enough to accommodate a passenger, or about as much baggage as you can carry on a plane. It?s considered a motorcycle, allowing you to easily slip through traffic, cutting up to 50% off commute times. It?s 100% electric, with a top speed of 100+ mph and a range of up to 200 miles per charge. It uses high torque in-hub motors to accelerate from 0-60 mph in about six seconds. http://litmotors.com/
Solar panels are designed to convert sunlight into electricity. But when it's cloudy or rainy, they're useless. There are batteries, like the Tesla Powerwall, designed to store electricity for those cloudy days. But the technology isn't effective or cheap enough to make using solar power worth it in regions that don't receive a lot of sunlight. A group of researchers from Soochow University in China has come up with a promising solution to that problem: they've developed solar panels that can generate power from raindrops. www.inkl.com/newsletters/morning-edition/news/researchers-figured-out-how-to-generate-
Not everyone can exercise. People with muscle-wasting diseases and movement disorders, the frail, the very obese and post-surgical patients are among those who face a significant challenge when it comes to exercise. This can be frustrating, considering the well-established benefits of exercise. A pill may be on the way to stimulate the body into producing some of the same effects as exercise -a drug that can help us game the system that is naturally activated during exercise.? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/an-exercise-pill-may-be-in-the-future-for-those-incap
One of the big steps necessary to roll out self-driving cars is getting the public to trust them, and Waymo's latest attempt to achieve that is with a new 360-degree experience. Viewable on a computer, your phone or a VR headset, it feeds a simulation of mixed video and sensor data from one of the company's minivans to give you a feeling of what it "sees" while driving along. https://youtu.be/B8R148hFxPw