Foster + Partners is best known for its architecture, but the British firm recently created an impressive animated vision for a new type of shipping infrastructure that uses Elon Musk’s Hyperloop ...
The Middle East has already been the birthplace of a number of tech-led transport unicorns. Waze, a traffic and navigation app co-created in Israel, was acquired by Google in 2013 for over $1.1 ...
Virgin Hyperloop One’s XP-1 test pod on display at COSI (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.). CW Photo | Scott Francis Since SpaceX (Hawthorne, Calif., U.S.) founder and CEO Elon Musk published his Hyperloop Alpha ...
First proposed by Elon Musk, the theoretical transportation system we call hyperloop would propel people- or cargo-filled pods over long distances through steel tubes. Magnetic levitation and big ...
Getting from place to place has always been a problem, and problems tend to inspire innovation. Cars, trains, planes, and even the humble boat exist because someone needed a better way of getting ...
DENVER (CBS4)- Colorado is well positioned to be a leader in the hyperloop revolution. On Thursday, the leading company Hyperloop One announced 10 international finalists, with five in the U.S. The ...
Hard to believe but the precursor of what we know today as the “Hyperloop”—the idea of transporting goods and passengers through low-pressure pneumatic tubes—dates back to the 18 th century. It ...
When the hyperloop first sparked a frenzy in 2013, it was just an Elon Musk Big Idea—very exciting, maybe possible, definitely hard to believe. Now, five years on, a version of the futuristic, ...
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Musk’s vision has much to capture the imagination. He sees it ...
A decade ago, Elon Musk told the world that the transportation of the future would include 600 mph trains inside tubes. Glass tubes. Steel tubes. Concrete tubes. One tube going everywhere, connecting ...
Virgin's hyperloop system uses magnetic levitation technology to reduce friction and low-pressure sealed vacuums along the track that minimize air resistance. Virgin Hyperloop Smithsonian's 175th ...
The other day in Chicago, a friend who lives in Columbus, Ohio, 360 miles away, texted me a last-minute dinner invitation. I walked to the Michigan Avenue Hyperloop station and, because I had just ...