The Moment you KNOW You're Living in the Future

The Vertex Tilt Rotor UAV

The kickstarter link is here.

Well, Crap. The Goblins-Kickstarter Scam & Resulting Conflict

It seems someone started a kickstarter campaign in the name of the Goblins webcomic.  The person was NOT affiliated with author of the webcomic and ended up bilking the backers out of  lot of money.  The author warned kickstarter, which ignored him and then later told the author to talk to the person running the KS.  Then apparently later on, KS posted the author's home address.

At this point, as much as I despise lawyers, its time for the author to invoke them.

Not just make posts to the internet.

Project Ryptide: Robopocalyptic Lifeguard Assistant

The speed that drones can be deployed makes them ideal for delivering items when time is of the essence. The Ambulance Drone and Defikopter, for example, are used for transporting defibrillators to those in need. Now, Project Ryptide plans to use drones to deliver life-rings to swimmers in distress.

Unlike the similar Pars aerial robot, the Ryptide is not actually a drone itself. It's an attachment designed to be installed on a drone and carry a folded, inflatable life-ring. When the drone has been flown to a location above the distressed swimmer, a button on the drone controller can be pressed to remotely release the life-ring. When the life-ring hits the water, a salt tablet dissolves allowing a spring pin to pierce a CO2 cartridge and the life-ring to inflate in about 3 seconds.

The project, which is at pre-production prototype stage, was conceived by Bill Piedra, a part-time teacher at the King Low Heywood Thomas (KLHT) school in Stamford, Connecticut. Piedra began working on the design in January 2014 and then began developing it further with students at KLHT in September 2014.

"Ryptide was designed so that anyone can be a lifeguard," Piedra tells Gizmag. "We had the casual user in mind when we designed the basic model; someone that might take their drone to the beach, boating, a lake, or even ice skating. It could be useful in the case of someone falling through the ice while skating, for example."

link.

Heno Hoverboard: do you actually believe this?

Its a slick video, but IDK.... 

Oh and Marty and Doc Brown want royalties.  

Kickstarter For a Cubesat Ion Drive

Kickstart an Ion Drive!

Time is short on this one...

Swap: Kickerstarter Invites for Backing

I have 4 kickerstarter invites. I'll swap them for backing on the project. I'll hand them out to the top 4 backers by next week.