Joe Salas

United States

Journalist at New Atlas

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McMurtry Spéirling destroys F1 car Top Gear Test Track lap time

1 week ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

The McMurtry Spéirling has just redefined what "hypercar" actually means. The little single-seater electric beast dethroned a 21-year-old record held by a Formula 1 car at the Top Gear Test Track ... and not in a very subtle way. It went for the full usurper kill. The Top Gear Test Track has been a benchmark for fast since 2002, when Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James "Captain Slow" May were the presenters.
McMurtry Spéirling fan car drives upside down defying gravity

1 week ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

The debate has been raging for decades: can a Formula 1 car drive inverted from downforce alone? No one ever asked if a McMurtry Spéirling could ... turns out, it's no problemo. Over the last few years year, McMurtry has already been turning both heads and lap times upside down – and not just setting lap records seemingly everywhere the team takes the Spéirling Pure VP1 fan car, but absolutely trouncing records.
The world's first interactive 3d hologram, FlexiVol, shows promise

1 week ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

Remember the scene in Iron Man 2 where Tony Stark rediscovers a new element and is handling virtual 3D holographic elements with his hands, moving them around, pinching, swiping, flicking, and tossing? Pretty cool in 2010. What about 2025? Well, we're not quite there yet, but this is still pretty innovative: A team of Spanish engineers has created the world's first 3D hologram that can be physically interacted with.
There's no business like de-extinction business: The dire wolf lives

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

The only de-extinction company in the world announced today that 12,500 years after it last roamed the earth, the dire wolf is no longer extinct. Like a plot mashup of Jurassic Park meets Game of Thrones, John Hammond meets Jon Snow, scientists at Colossal Biosciences claims to have pulled off the world's first de-extinction event. It's brought back the dire wolf. The three pups include two males, Remus and Romulus, and a female called Khaleesi.
Another turbine world record set – but not by China this time

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

In the ever-shifting winds of "who-did-it-bigger?," China has just taken a back seat to European wind company Siemens Gamesa. The firm recently planted a colossal, world-record-setting turbine in the Østerild test field in Denmark. Though it wasn't by much, it still counts ... the Siemens SG DD-276 turbine stretches a ridiculous 905 ft (276 meters) from blade tip to blade tip. It's rated at a monstrous 21.5 MW capacity – enough to power 70,000 Danish homes per year.
Trexo Wheels Go AI dolly has heaps of programmable voice command features

3 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

When I first used a slider while shooting video, I never wanted to film a static shot ever again. Something as simple as an establishing landscape shot suddenly had this cinematic feel that was far more interesting than it would otherwise would have been. It was was only a manual slide down tracks about the length of a shoebox, but whoa, what a difference. Twenty years later, and now here's a product I could have only dreamt of.
Yangwang U7: Not just a fun name, but also a fun car (price and specs)

3 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

Yangwang, the Chinese carmaker that brought us the [Mach 5 inspired?] jumping/dancing U9 electric hypercar, isn't shy when it comes to boasting about the off-kilter feats its vehicles can deliver. This time it's rooftop Wing Chun on the new U7.
Safe atomic battery could power devices for decades without charging

4 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas |New Atlas

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn radiation directly into electricity for decades – but without all the scary stuff associated with nuclear radiation. Called a dye-sensitized betavoltaic cell, this battery uses beta particles, which are just high-energy electrons. The magic in this battery is the material carbon-14, a radioactive isotope that emits beta particles.
You like pockets? Caligo is the "Swiss Army knife" of pants

1 month ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

There are probably a million reasons why you don't need a new pair of pants. But there are at least 18 reasons why you want these particular adventure pants from Caligo. For starters, pockets. Who doesn't love pockets? There are no less than 18 pockets in these bad boys. If you're like me, you don't like to check bags at the airport. You'll be able to pack an entire carry-on in your pants, including – but not limited to – your 10-inch iPad and a 14-hour flight's worth of beef jerky. No joke.
The EO Canopy makes its own electricity and water, completely off the grid

1 month ago | newatlas.com | Joe Salas

Have you ever wanted to go fully off-grid and "find yourself" in the woods, living off the land, with only your wits and survival skills to keep you alive? Oh, no? But you could pretend, at least ... and the EO Canopy is the ultimate solution for you. I'd like to preface this article to say this is not a sales pitch. I'm simply a big fan of living off-grid in the woods, and I really enjoy my creature comforts as well.