Alphabet's years-long involvement with energy-making kites is no more. The Google parent is ending its work on Makani's wind power technology, with X's Moonshot lead Astro Teller warning that the path to a viable business was "much longer and riskie...
A Russian state corporation has created kites to monitor locations and relay communications signals."The kites can reach an altitude of several kilometers relaying communications for warships and...
Name a method of generating power that's cheap, efficient, sustainable and sounds like something Mary Poppins dreamed up after downing 20 teaspoons of sugar. That's right -- kite power. One of the world's first non-experimental, kite-driven power sta...
Spiders travel across water like sail ships, using their legs as sails and their silk as an anchor, according to new mind blowing research. The study helps explain how spiders are able to migrate...
Take to the airrrr, mateys with this flying pirate ship. The X-Kites 3D Supersize Pirate Ship is a real kite you can fly that looks like a 3 dimensional colorful pirate ship, complete with sails and everything. The kite measures 72″ long, including the tail (the ship part is about 3 feet long) and is made from a durable nylon and a collapsible fiberglass airframe for easy breakdown and transporting. In real life it looks better than the product photo they provided above (seriously, what’s up with that picture?). Better yet, check out a video of someone flying the kite below to see how it weaves through the air with ease:
That’s cool, I really like the cut of that kite’s jib. The kite comes with over 150 feet of string and a handle for easy flying. Just take it out on a windy day and thar she blows landlubbers. Definitely a unique head turning kite.
Take to the skies just like aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright did at Kitty Hawk with this high flying Kitty Hawk Kite. Designed to look just like the original 1903 design of the Wright Flyer, this kite has a 46″ wingspan and comes with enough string to fly up to 200 feet in the air (which by the way is 190 feet higher than the Wright Brothers flew!) Designed by kite artist Joel Scholz, the biplane kite requires minimal assembly to get up and flying. The frame is made of fiberglass while the wings and fuselage are made from ripstop polyester. It’s definitely a unique kite with some appeal to aviation and history buffs too.
The kite has gone wireless (or “no strings attached” if you will)! I’m not exactly sure where the line between a kite and remote controlled aircraft falls but the Motorized Stunt Kite is somewhere in the middle. This stunt kite has a remote controlled gimbal-mounted engine and propeller that lets you do some crazy aerial moves from up to 500 feet away via wireless controller. The ripstop nylon delta shaped wings give the kite lift while a fiberglass frame and wing struts provide strength. The kite runs a rechargeable lithium battery and measures 27″ long by 5 feet wide. Clickthrough for the video (sorry can’t embed), this thing soars like a bird up there.
Google Earth already offers quite a variety of ways to explore the planet, but the folks in Mountain View never seem content to leave things alone for long. Their latest addition is some aerial imagery of a slightly different sort -- images shot from ordinary balloons and kites. That initial batch of photos comes courtesy of The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, which is itself a grassroots effort that anyone can contribute to. And that's apparently what Google hopes folks will do in order to expand the aerial views available -- as Google notes on its Lat Long blog, all that you need to get started is a digital camera and about $100 in parts, plus a little initiative. Complete details on how to start your own DIY mapping effort, or simply explore the options now available, can be found at the links below.
Alphabet's years-long involvement with energy-making kites is no more. The Google parent is ending its work on Makani's wind power technology, with X's Moonshot lead Astro Teller warning that the path to a viable business was "much longer and riskie...
Name a method of generating power that's cheap, efficient, sustainable and sounds like something Mary Poppins dreamed up after downing 20 teaspoons of sugar. That's right -- kite power. One of the world's first non-experimental, kite-driven power sta...
is a real kite you can fly that looks like a 3 dimensional colorful pirate ship, complete with sails and everything. The kite measures 72″ long, including the tail (the ship part is about 3 feet long) and is made from a durable nylon and a collapsible fiberglass airframe for easy breakdown and transporting.
