The Manav Podcast

This ship was built to hide from radar. Sea Shadow stayed secret inside a barge. It was only tested at night for over a decade. #SeaShadow #USNavy #ColdWar

PteroDynamics Transwing takes off like a drone with its wings folded But when flying, it unfolds them smoothly. It has a drone's ground footprint and a plane's range.  The US Navy is already testing it to replace Black Hawk helicopters. #PteroDynamics #Transwing #eVTOL

Britain planned to build an aircraft carrier made of ice. Project Habakkuk used a mix of ice and wood pulp. And this carrier could stay in the Atlantic without a base. #ProjectHabakkuk #WWII #History

This massive aircraft has a wingspan wider than a Boeing 737.  RQ-4 Global Hawk can fly for more than 30 hours while operating autonomously.  It's built to watch huge areas from above. #GlobalHawk #DroneTech #Aerospace

Candela P-12 is the first electric boat to fly above water Its three carbon-fibre hydrofoil wings lift 30 passengers above the surface at 25 knots with zero emissions. The flight controller adjusts the wings 100 times per second for a smooth ride. #CandelaP12 #Candela #ElectricFerry

Amazon drones can deliver small packages in under an hour.  They fly up to 74 mph while carrying packages weighing five pounds or less.  Drone delivery is becoming real-world logistics. #Amazon #DroneDelivery #FutureTech

Dobot just revealed a highly realistic biomimetic dinosaur. The engineering team based this exact design on the Sinosauropteryx. Lifelike hardware like this could soon replace traditional animatronics completely. #Dobot #BiomimeticRobots #TechHardware

This underwater habitat lets scientists live below. Vanguard is the first US subsea lab in 40 years. Researchers now get nearly 8 hours underwater daily. #Vanguard #DEEP #OceanTech

Mona Luna is Europe's new rover built for the Moon.  It can survive lunar nights reaching −240°C.  The mission aims to give Europe independent lunar exploration in 2030. #MonaLuna #Moon #Space

The first computer bug wasn't a metaphor. A real moth jammed Harvard's Mark II in 1947. Engineers taped it into the logbook forever. #ComputerBug #TechHistory #Harvard