Colorized photos of the Titanic (16 pictures)
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with aniceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US.
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Polar bear inspects a car (14 pictures)
Polar bear is the world’s largest bear. A boar (adult male) weighs around 350–700 kg (770–1,500 lb),while a sow (adult female) is about half that size. Due to the size and enormous power, the polar bear is a very dangerous animal. Seemingly, this situation does not look dangerously and luckily ended up safely, but you have to remember that wild animals are unpredictable.
The Soviet Lunokhod Rovers
Although the United States roved the Moon first on manned missions, the Soviet Union was the first nation to robotically rove around the lunar surface with the twin Lunokhod rovers in the early 1970s.
Hyperloop: truly a new mode of transport?
Elon Musk is the real life Tony Stark, in fact he was the inspiration for the characters demeanor in the Iron Man films. A brilliant man, from South Africa, Musk has managed to hit home runs with some of his larger endeavors including PayPal and more recently co-founded Tesla Motors.
Now, the plan is to take the technology of Tesla for a solar-powered, city-to-city elevated transit system that could take passengers and cars from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.
South Korea’s wireless electric roads
South Korea has unveiled a 7.5 mile section of road which can wirelessly power buses driving along it. Using magnetic resonance, pickups on the bottom of the bus collect energy from cables under the road, allowing them to drive with far smaller batteries.
Where the roads cross: Aerial photographs by Peter Andrew (10 pictures)
Peter Andrew is an award-winning commercial and fine art photographer from Toronto, Canada. His body of works includes advertising, location, portrait and landscape photography. The level of thought and detail in his photographs can only be visualised by the massive scale of his new signature landscape series.