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Meet The Fastest Car In The World "Thrust SSC"

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Thrust SSC, the one and only car to be recorded as the fastest car ever in nearly 20 years. Moving at over 1,200 km/h, this sweet ride set the world record of being the fastest car on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA. Andy Green the creator of this car also claims that the car was the first to ever break the sound barrier, although according to the Guinness World Records, The published speed of Mach 1.0106 was not officially approved by the USAF, as the Digital Instrument Radar was not calibrated or certified. How ever, this engineering masterclass remains a dream for every petrol head out there. Breaking the Mach 1 barrier was both difficult as well as risky as before, no information on the ground effects of this practice was available. The ground effect includes the risk of things going terribly wrong at the slightest of anomalies. And at its designed top speed of 1400 km/h, the dynamic pressure exceeds ¾ tonnes per square foo t which makes ...

Meet Jia Jia China's Humanoid Realistic Robot

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Chen Xiaoping and his colleagues  at the University of Science and Technology of China have redefined the word “creepy” as they unveiled an eerily realistic robot called named Jia Jia.  jia jia Looks incredibly like a life human, Jia Jia is capable of talking and interacting with real humans besides realistic facial expressions. The robot even poses for a picture and comments “Don’t come too close to me when you are taking a picture. It will make my face look fat ” to someone who is trying to capture her photo. Chen Xiaoping and his colleagues has spent three years on designing the robot and has gone to the intricacies of making its mouth move when speaking and that the eyes relocate and glance around the room naturally. The brain consists of essentially a massive online database which is connected to a cloud computing platform granting  the robot to enhance its ability to process emotions and speech as more data is uploaded. Researchers hope they can ...

This Tyre Attachment Is Capable Of Getting Your Stuck Car Out Of The Mud In Seconds

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Every Off road fanatic knows that getting your vehicle stuck in a hole is part and parcel of the adventure. So whether you are travelling on a snowy mountain, or treading in a limitless desert, you need to have the required tools to get you out of the mess.                                                                 Usually, all the professional adventurists have those heavy and expensive winches in their cars to get out of a rut, but there is a tool we are going to cover today ,this tool  is  easy and cheap to use.       This winch variant is called the Bush Winch , and it is designed to attach to the nuts on your wheels and then allow the wheel to rotate and wind up the winch to get out of the rut. The Bush Winch uses only the power of your car’s engine to take your car out of the ditch, t...