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the ion scooter-last mile transportation

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">electric vehicle are now flooding the market with new and innovative designs.well probilty cell LLC a company from united states has launched a new kickstater campaign .there project is about a light,affordable and foldable electric scooter.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><u>now what is special about this scooter?</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">there is actually nothing very special about this scooter but what they have done is that they have designed there scooter very simplistically.they have designed it to be more portable ,light and cheap so that lot of people can get hand on it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>About the techy stuff!</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the scooter is equipped with a 250w brushless electric hub motor  which is powered by 36v lithium ion batteries.the battery charges in 3.25 hours and it has charge cycle of 1000+ ,scooter can go up to 17 miles/hour of top speed. controls of the scooter are also very simplistic like there design , it has two twists the right one is used  for acceleration and left one is for braking along with that it has a battery indicator which is mounted along the handle bar which indicates that how much battery is left.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><u>About the pricing</u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">well you can get this scooter from there <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ionsmartscooter/ion-smartscooter-the-ultimate-commuter-electric-sc?ref=category_popular" target="_blank">kickstater campaign</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">by pledging as minimum as 379$</span></div>
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the ion scooter-last mile transportation

electric vehicle are now flooding the market with new and innovative designs.well probilty cell LLC a company from united states has launched a new kickstater campaign .there project is about a light…

22 Sep 2014

Hilarious Razor Crazy Cart drift machine set to hit the UK

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When the Crazy Cart first launched in the USA, Canada and Australia last year, it made a huge splash. Not just for its awesome sideways drifting action, but because it featured quite frankly the best promotional video we've ever seen. Now, Razor has announced that its "ultimate drift machine" is available in the UK from August 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Before we continue, if you haven't yet seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch this video:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If that homage to the awesome <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUO-lPubXeI" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ken Block gymkhana videos</a> doesn't make your wallet start burning a hole in your pocket, we recommend you check your pulse!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Crazy Cart is a fairly simple concept. It has a small electric motor that drives a single wheel located in the center of the cart, towards the front. That wheel can be steered in 360 degrees using a small steering wheel, which features a little arrow that points in the direction the wheel is pointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At the rear of the cart sits a pair of caster wheels. As you drive along, at a maximum speed of 12 mph (nearly 20 km/h), the caster effect on those rear wheels pulls the back of the cart into line with the front wheel, so you're always driving forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you pull on the "drift bar" at the side, it tilts the rear caster wheels so the caster effect is almost zero, which means the cart is free to face in just about any direction, no matter which way the front wheel is driving. You can do anything from driving straight backwards, to extreme sideways drifting, to spinning crazily on the spot. You don't need to worry too much about tipping it over, thanks to a couple of extra anti-tip caster wheels at the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It looks like absolutely ridiculous fun, and a handy way to calibrate your brain to sideways driving if you're thinking of getting into drifting in a bigger machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the current Crazy Cart can only handle riders up to 140 lb (64 kg) so it's more of a kids' fun machine. With a bit of luck Razor will pull its finger out and make one us bigger lads can ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Crazy Cart is available now in America, Canada and Australia, with those in the UK able to join the fun from August 1 for £499.99 (US$850).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SOURCE-<a href="http://www.gizmag.com/razor-crazy-cart-uk/33112/" target="_blank">GIZMAG</a></span></div>
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Hilarious Razor Crazy Cart drift machine set to hit the UK

When the Crazy Cart first launched in the USA, Canada and Australia last year, it made a huge splash. Not just for its awesome sideways drifting action, but because it featured quite frankly the best…

26 Jul 2014

Elytron 2S: The out-of-the-box tiltrotor concept

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">Some people are never satisfied. You give them a plane, and they say it can’t hover. You give them a helicopter, and they say it can’t fly very high or fast. Looking to combine the advantages of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, Elytron Aircraft LLC of Mountain View, California is developing the Elytron 2S, a small tiltrotor aircraft that uses a </span>box wing configuration<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">and is aimed at the civilian market.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Airplanes and helicopters do well in their respective aeronautical niches. Airplanes can fly high, fast, far, and carry heavy loads, while helicopters can hover, fly backwards, land and take off vertically, and maneuver in very tight spaces. The tricky thing is when jobs arise where requirements overlap; like an airplane that can land vertically, or a helicopter than can fly at high altitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Though there have been some aggressive development projects in recent years, such as the Bell V-280, the AugustaWestland Project Zero andAW609, the only operational manned, prop-driven aircraft that manages this sort of hybrid flight is the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In service with the US Marine Corps and the air forces of the US, Japan and Israel, the military tiltrotor spent many years in controversial development and, to this day, no civilian version has taken off. This is unfortunate because early visions of tiltrotor aircraft saw them employed as air taxis, short haul transports, and in other civilian applications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Elytron 2S is a new take on tiltrotor configuration that incorporates an unconventional wing design to create a hybrid aircraft with greater performance – especially in the difficult transition between vertical and horizontal flight. One of a family of aircraft developed by the Elytron company over the past decade, the 2S is intended to combine the features of a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft, with the company seeing applications for emergency medical services, search and rescue, air taxis, and oil exploration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Comparing the 2S to the Osprey, the most obvious difference is its wing configuration, known as Prandtl's box wing design. It looks exotic and futuristic, but it’s actually a variation on a wing concept that dates back to the earliest days of aviation when it was used by the pioneer flyer Louis Bleriot in 1906. It has also been used more recently by Lockheed Martin for one of its concept jets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2S’s design uses two pairs of wings. One pair is set forward on the fuselage and is swept back. A second pair is set on top of the tail and swept forward. The tips of the fore and aft wings are linked by winglets, forming a skewed box. With this layout the forces are distributed through the box structure, making it stronger and lighter. It also provides a high aspect ratio for greater lift of about 15 percent over conventional wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This results in greater fuel efficiency and less weight. In addition, the box wing is more stable, has better glide ratios and is less prone to stalling. In all, this makes Prandtl's box wing very suitable for short take-off and landing craft. The stall factor is particularly important because it helps keep the 2S in the air during the vertical to horizontal flight transition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So far, this is unusual, but not unprecedented. According to Elytron, the novel bit about the 2S is the extra pair of rotating wings mounted amidships, which contain the motors and props. The rotary wings, called "proprotors," are powered by two 90-degree gearboxes and are mounted on a single, centrally-mounted tilt wing that travels through 100 degrees and has four control surfaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Elytron says that this arrangement inside the box wing obviates interference with the proprotors’ thrust, while the winglets protect against rotor strikes. Because the proprotors can drop to the horizontal for forward flight, the blades don’t have the disadvantage of helicopter rotors where the retreating side of the rotors slows the craft and introduces unwanted torque. The design of the proprotors is much less complicated than a helicopter rotor with no need to angle or feather the rotors, so the linkages are simpler and their fewer parts are spread out through the wing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to Elytron, the result of all this is low drag at high speed in a craft that can fly two to three times the speed of an equivalent helicopter and, if the V-22 is an example, it will have a higher operating ceiling. It’s also safer because its glide ratio means that the rotors don’t need to autorotate during an emergency landing. If that doesn't work. Elytron says it will install a ballistic parachute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Elytron 2S is a two-seater technology demonstrator built using fast prototyping with carbon composite materials. The company says that it plans to install a 450 bhp turbocharged race engine in the 2S with the goal of conducting flight tests next year. If successful, the next phase will include building a seven-seater version for commercial use. In the meantime, the 2S is on display at the Oshkosh Airshow through August 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SOURCE-<a href="http://www.gizmag.com/elytron-s2-tiltrotor-civilian-aircraft/33036/" target="_blank">GIZMAG</a></span></div>
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Elytron 2S: The out-of-the-box tiltrotor concept

Some people are never satisfied. You give them a plane, and they say it can’t hover. You give them a helicopter, and they say it can’t fly very high or fast. Looking to combine the advantages of both…

24 Jul 2014

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