I love concrete, it runs in my family for 3 generations now (maybe it will be over after me though, who knows). So when I see a building with walls made of pure concrete, I am usually interested. Well the building that I will talk about today is more than a “building made of  concrete”. The EDF’s (Electricity of France) archives [...]

Alright, I will admit it: I hate Apple. I’ve owned an iPhone during 6 months, right, but i got rid of it quickly and switched to Android and a N1 – I couldn’t take the iPhone’s bad reception anymore – and I have owned an iPod classic for 3 years now. But I can’t stand Mac OS and Macs make [...]

I was talking the other day about researches which aimed to create building with skin-like walls. Well today I will talk about a “spider web” – a flexible mesh actually – which could envelop aircrafts and a tone of other facilities/machines. This is pretty simple: some researchers from Standford designed a skin – inspired by spiders’ webs – that could be [...]

This is pretty sad, I had to go all the way to the New York Times to read about an initiative going on in my hometown, Paris, France. Admittedly, we French(wo)men are somewhere on the other side of weird. But when you keep this in mind, the latest campaign to make the city “greener” doesn’t seem that offputting. Parisians are [...]

Imagine buildings with exterior walls acting like skin and react to their environment: which retract when it’s cold, if it’s glass it could block – or not – light and heat, … That’s what teams of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania are working on – or are thinking about. The goal would be to make buildings’ skins sensing and react to some [...]

For few months, the Solar Impulse made it clear: solar aircrafts are the future. The zero emission aircraft, powered by 12000 solar cells, flew during 24 hours, night and day, and gave the lead. The project aims to fly all around the world – with another prototype – but it is now focusing on making this beauty fly all around Switzerland, and showing that it [...]

Sorry for the French name/news, but the 5th “Mondial de la simulation” is coming soon, between November 26th and 28th. What is it about? Simulation! Simulation? Mostly virtual aviation, but also trains, construction, … This is taking place to the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget (close to Paris and CDG). I must admit that me and myself are [...]

I am not a huge fan of Flash, I must admit it – I even hate the thing. But I must admit that I was smiling while I was reading that article. Adobe makes a lot of money, they earned – during the  last 3 months – 230 millions $. This year the company is reaching the billion of earnings, it increased [...]

I only few once aboard of a Russian manufactured aircraft – a Россия’s Ty-154M to be precise – and even if it was a pretty scary experience, I highly respect Russian aircrafts. Among those aircrafts, the Iliouchine Il-76 is beautiful. Its first flight was in 1971, more than 900 aircrafts have been produced until 2005! It’s cruising at 750 – 780 km/h, at [...]

It’s been quite a while that Airbus is thinking and talking about upgrading its A320 family. The A320 family – which includes A318, 319, 320 and 321 – is now 20 years old – the plane flew for the first time in 1987 and is operated by airlines since 1988. Even if it has been upgraded in the past, it has n’t [...]