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2010-04-15

NASA's Puffin Personal Aircraft

NASA's Puffin: Your Personal Aircraft?

DiscoveryNetworks — February 02, 2010

Engineers from the NASA Langley Research Center unveiled plans to build a personal flying machine that would run on a set of electric motors. Jorge Ribas reports on the aptly named Puffin, which is still in the early stages of development.




The Puffin: A Passion for Personal Flight
Even the technical details were pretty interesting. If ever built the proposed aircraft would be small and very lightweight -- about 300 pounds (136 kg) empty weight plus another 100 pounds (45 kg) of battery and 200 pounds (91 kg) for the pilot or payload. The design would be powered by a total of 60 horsepower through electric motors, which are designed to be able to fail any two powertrain components on either side and still produce the required power to hover. It has a cruising speed of 150 mph (241 kph), but cruises more efficiently at lower speeds The range with current battery technology would be about 50 miles (80 km).


NASA develops one-man personal rocket concept

Personal aircrafts are the vehicles of the future

NASA developing Puffin one-man personal aircraft design, test flights planned soon
Test flights planned
Moore came up with the design as part of his doctoral degree, which he then sold on to NASA.
 
The Puffin would have a top speed of 150mph (241kph), but could easily cruise at lower speeds, with a range of around 50 miles.

The US National Institute of Aerospace is set to trial a remote control one-third size model of Moore's concept aircraft to test out whether or not the theories can possible be made into reality.

Sources:
  1. YouTube - NASA's Puffin: Your Personal Aircraft?
  2. NASA - The Puffin: A Passion for Personal Flight
  3. YouTube - NASA Puffin Low Noise, Electric VTOL Personal Air Vehicle
  4. NASA develops one-man personal rocket concept | News | TechRadar UK
Related:
  1. NASA Puffin personal electric aircraft concept
  2. NASA’s Puffin Is Way Cooler Than a Jetpack | Autopia | Wired.com
  3. Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane: Scientific American
  4. NASA's Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft | Popular Science
  5. NASA's Puffin is the latest personal flying machine that will never be produced (video) -- Engadget
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2009-08-17

Hov Pod Personal Hovercraft

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Hov Pod personal hovercraft

The Hov Pod.

UK based Reaction International Ltd. has added to its line of personal leisure hovercraft with the Hov Pod SPX 120 Turbo. Powered by a 120 HP 4 stroke Weber engine which offers greater performance and range, the SPX 120 hovers at a height of 9-inches over any flat surface, including water, ice, snow, sand, mud or grass and can reach speeds approaching 50mph on water. It's also buoyant enough to take over a ton in weight before water ingresses into the hull, making it suitable for commercial, patrol and rescue use.

Al Fin's 2009 Small Vehicle Survival Award Winner

The HovPod personal hovercraft is built for durability and versatile travel on all types of terrain. From water to mud to sand to ice to snow to pavement, this little package is not just for exhilaration and mirth. It can get you places few other craft can take you, quickly and economically.
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  1. Hov Pod personal hovercraft
  2. Al Fin: Al Fin's 2009 Small Vehicle Survival Award Winner
  3. YouTube - Hovercraft
  4. Hov Pod Home
  5. Applications
  6. YouTube - hovpodhovercraft
  7. YouTube - Hovercraft
  8. YouTube - Hov Pod Hovercraft Pulling a 720!
  9. YouTube - hovpod personal hovercraft flies in desert
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2009-05-04

Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer

Clipped from: NVidia Tesla:World's first "personal" supercomputer | BT-G.com: The Everything Blog

NVidia Tesla:World’s first “personal” supercomputer

NVidia has come up with “Tesla personal supercomputer” that delivers cluster computing like performance and is upto 250 times faster than the present day personal computers or workstations.
Tesla is powered by 4 GPU’s, each having 240 processing cores (that makes 4*240=960 cores working in parallel in total) based on the NVidia’s CUDA architecture, delivering whopping performance of near 4 Teraflops!



Clipped from: Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer that is backed by Nvidia and built by Dell, Lenovo and other companies[1]. It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla GPGPU brand; it utilizes NVIDIA's CUDAparallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores[2], which allows it to achieve a performance up to 250 times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia. As of January 2009, the Tesla computer platform delivers the best performance among all stand-alone systems being used in distributed computing projetcs like Seti@home or Spinhenge@home.

Clipped from: YouTube - Tesla Personal Supercomputer
At SC08 NVIDIA announces the Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer. Experience cluster level computing performance—up to 250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations—right at your desk.



Clipped from: YouTube - Tomography Research, CUDA and TESLA Personal Supercomputing

Tomography Research, CUDA and TESLA Personal Supercomputing

Joost Batenburg discusses how the University of Antwerp is researching and has already developed practical uses for Tomography using CUDA Technology in industries from Medical Science Imaging and cutting diamonds in order to maximise yields to observing nano structures in 3D.
Clipped from: NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer



NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer
Get your own supercomputer. Experience cluster level computing performance—up to 250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations—right at your desk. The NVIDIA® Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores.
Clipped from: Tech Specs

Tesla Architecture

* Massively-parallel many-core architecture
* 240 scalar processor cores per GPU
* Integer, single-precision and double-precision floating point operations
* Hardware Thread Execution Manager enables thousands of concurrent threads per GPU
* Parallel shared memory enables processor cores to collaborate on shared information at local cache performance
* Ultra-fast GPU memory access with 102 GB/s peak bandwidth per GPU
* IEEE 754 single-precision and double-precision floating point
* Each Tesla C1060 GPU delivers 933 GFlops Single Precision and 78 GFlops Double Precision performance

Sources:
  1. Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  2. NVidia Tesla:World's first "personal" supercomputer | BT-G.com: The Everything Blog
  3. YouTube - Tesla Personal Supercomputer
  4. YouTube - Tomography Research, CUDA and TESLA Personal Supercomputing
  5. NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer
  6. Tech Specs
Related:
  1. Next Big Future: Nvidia GPGPU Desktop Supercomputer and Convey HC-1 FPGA supercomputer
  2. TG Daily - Nvidia's Tesla deskside supercomputer returns as a PC
  3. Nvidia's tesla is desktop supercomputer - The Inquirer
  4. YouTube - nvidiatesla's Channel


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2008-08-23

ULTra Personal Rapid Transit

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ULTra Advanced Transport Systems Ltd

A new approach to public transport


WELCOME TO THE ULTra WEBSITE


PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) provides on-demand driverless travel using its own guideway network

ULTra offers an advanced form of PRT, ready for application, giving effective, low cost and sustainable transport for cities, airports and special developments worldwide.

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ULTra PRT sustainable transit
ULTra is a battery-driven, 100-mpg-equivalent, elevated personal rapid transit system with many four-person vehicles. First deployment is scheduled for London Heathrow Airport in Spring 2009, to serve Heathrow's new Terminal 5. Working as circulator transit for office parks, airports, universities, and other major activity centers, ULTra is faster than a car. In these applications, ULTra makes carpooling and conventional transit more effective, by solving the "last mile problem." http://www.atsltd.co.uk/

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Heathrow ULTra PRT Construction Underway
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ULTra PRT site
ULTra Advanced Transit Systems Inc
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2008-08-03

Winglet Toyota's Personal Transport Assistance Robot

Toyota unveils Winglet, a personal transport assistance robot.
"It is so compact that everyone can bring it anywhere and it is easy to use," said Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada, who rode a Winglet onto thestage at a news conference in Tokyo.
Clipped from: Toyota develops standup mover | The Japan Times Online

The Japan Times Online

Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008

Toyota develops standup mover




Winging it: Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President
Takeshi Uchiyamada demonstrates the Winglet personal
transportation vehicle in Tokyo on Friday.
YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO

Clipped from: Winglet: Toyota does a Segway like device | Tech News at TechWhack

Winglet: Toyota does a Segway like device

Japanese automaker Toyota has developed a prototype vehicle that is very similar to Segway.

They call it Winglet. The company said that the vehicle was designed people shop around in a mall.

The potential target for this vehicle would be elderly people.

Toyota however has no current plans to sell it in the market. They are for now planning to test it out at airports and resorts to see the usability of the vehicle.

The prototype showcased has a top speed of 3.7 miles per hour which is much lower than the top speed of Segway.



Clipped from: TOYOTA: News Releases

 Toyota Develops Personal Transport
Assistance Robot 'Winglet'

Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced today development of the "Winglet", a personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position.

The Winglet—still being refined—is one of TMC's people-assisting Toyota Partner Robots. Designed to contribute to society by helping people enjoy a safe and fully mobile life, the Winglet is a compact next-generation everyday transport tool that offers advanced ease of use and expands the user's range of mobility.






Related:
Toyota develops standup mover | The Japan Times Online
TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION GLOBAL SITE
TOYOTA: News Releases
Toyota's Winglet aims to usurp Segway, why we don't know (updated with video) - Engadget
Toyota reveals 'Winglet' assistance robots, Segways beware [w/VIDEO] - Autoblog
Toyota Announces the Development of the Winglet, a Personal Transport Assistant : Akihabara News .com
Toyota’s Winglet wants to compete with Segway - SlipperyBrick.com
Toyota’s Winglet To Compete With Segway
Sports Winglet: Toyota Winglet Sport Feels Like Inline Skates for Klutzs Like Me
Video: Toyota's Winglet Advanced Scooter In Action
Toyota Winglet: Toyota Reveals Trio Of "Winglet" Personal Transport Assistance Robots
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