DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
NEW DRONE OF DRONES & BROTHER OF SPEEDER FLYING MOTORCYCLE
Super - Mayman Aerospace
- CA-based Mayman Aerospace just unveiled its new Razor VTOL aircraft that shares DNA with the Speeder jet flying motorcycle. Here are some key facts:
- Mayman is famous for its Speeder flying motorcycle concept and Jetpack that turns humans into birds
- Now it's unveiled a breakthrough multi-purpose drone called Razor
- Razor sets new drone technology standards:
- Can fly at 500 mph, to an altitude of 20,000-feet
- Autonomous with 200-mile range
- High speed VTOL with 8 small jet turbines
- Can take off & land vertically from a 10'x10' area
- Said to be the most advanced surveillance vehicle yet
- Can lead squadrons of 1000+ high performance aircraft
- Can carry payloads of 500 pounds+
- High agility & can maneuver like a jet fighter
- Uses: Military, disaster and civilian
- This drone is also a platform to develop technologies for the Speeder flying motorcycle targeted for 2028
- Razor is likely to complete testing this year & receive military certification next year.
THE KING OF DINOSAURS - NOT THE BRIGHTEST BULB!
- An international team of scientists has found that the King of Dinosaurs, T-Rex, was probably not as smart as had been thought. Here's what we know:
- Previous experts had deduced that dinosaurs were as smart as primates
- Current endocasts (molds of fossil skulls) that estimate brain size and tissue proportions give a closer proximation of intelligence
- According to recent scientific findings, T-Rex's intelligence is closer to that of a crocodile rather than a lofty, smarty pants baboon
- So, who was the smartest dinosaur? The Troodon, a dinosaur with a brain the size of an avocado, that was a bird-like dinosaur and stood 11-feet tall and clearly on a higher intellectual level than T-Rex.
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