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Filipino Innovator Kyxz Mendiola's Koncepto Millenya, A One-Seater Flying Car

In our generation today, flying cars are slowly becoming a reality. According to Wiki, a flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a personal car or automobile and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles which drive as motorcycles when on the road. The term "flying car" is also sometimes used to include hovercars. Many prototypes have been built since the early 20th century, using a variety of flight technologies. Most have been designed to take off and land conventionally using a runway, although VTOL projects are increasing. None has yet been built in more than a handful of numbers. Their appearance is often predicted by futurologists, and many concept designs have been promoted. But their failure to become a practical reality has led to the catchphrase "Where's my flying car?” as a paradigm for the failure of predicted technologies to appear. Flying cars are also a popular theme in fantasy and science fict

Collectible Vinyl: The Wu-Tang Clan: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

Nostalgia, that longing feeling for the past when things seemed better, easier, and more fun. That’s exactly how I feel every time I see things that has been considered Vintage. That old television our family have for years, yeah, programs are still in black and white. What should we be talking about here are those Vinyl records that are collecting dust down the basement. We’re gonna try to research about these records if we can salvage a decent sell. According to Wiki, a phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac, with earlier records having a fine abrasive filler mixed in. Starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common, hence the name vinyl. The phonograph record was the p

The Drone Taxi in Dubai

We are always amazed whenever we see flying cars at the movies. More often than not, we try to wonder when this will become a reality. Well, wonder no more as there are countries now that are facilitating these type of transport, and all test flights are successful. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Air Navigation Services (DANS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to exchange expertise on autonomous air vehicles. They will collaborate on areas such as legislation; testing programmes; identification of vehicle air routes and take-off and landing sites; and safety and security relating to urban air mobility. Eve Holding, an electric aircraft company owned by Embraer, a Brazilian plan maker and Falcon Aviation Services, a UAE-based charter flight operator, have collaborated to make 35 flying taxis and urban air mobility plans for Dubai. Ahmed Hashim Behrouzian, Executive Director of the Public Transport Foundation and Head of the RTA’s self-driving

Pfizer Unveils Latest CoViD-19 Pill, The Paxlovid

We are now on the third year after the CoViD-19 starts infecting a lot of people all over the world. All personnel from different medical field have gathered and unite to try to create vaccines in a very short period of time. As of this writing, 3 rd quarter of 2022, according to World Health Organization, the list of available vaccines in the market are as follows: Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Moderna (mRNA-1273) COVID-19 vaccine Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine J&J COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN Covovax Novavax CanSino Biologics Ad5-nCoV-S [recombinant] Moreover, Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced the unveiling of their latest Pill to combat CoViD-19, The Paxlovid. Pfizer's COVID-19 pill, Paxlovid, appears to have a lot of positives, including an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization and death in clinical trials. Paxlovid is the latest COVID-19 treatment that’s been all over the ne

Stefan Klein's The Klein Vision Flying Car, The AirCar

There has a lot of movies that features flying cars, it was all set in a not-so-near-future. However, that said future might be our present now. Introducing, the AirCar. The Klein Vision AirCar is a two-seat flying car designed by Štefan Klein and made in Slovakia. It was type certified as an aircraft in January 2022. Slovak designer Stefan Klein is a Founder and CEO of Klein Vision. He devoted the last twenty years converting his flying-car dream into reality. Currently he completed the flying prototype of AirCar that has been tested successfully at Nitra airport in October 2019. Professor Štefan Klein began working on flying cars in the late 1980s. Having developed the AeroMobil, he left the company to develop a new idea as the AirCar, and set up Klein Vision with colleague Anton Zajac. Having graduated from Slovak University of Technology in 1983, Klein studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), and also at the École des Beaux Arts ET Design, Saint Étienne in 1

No Sunlight No Problem for these 5 Plants

Gardening began to be more popular during the Pandemic. Though we’re still not fully recovered from CoViD-19 and yet another illness like MonkeyPox is testing the vulnerability of the human race, we tend to battle the odds to survive. Yeah, survival of the fittest might be true. Anyways, we’re deviating from the topic people, let’s get to it. As far as this little research is concerned, we found 5 plants that can survive without sunlight. Yes, plants also have their way to survive if subjected into hostile environment. Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema) The Chinese evergreen is the common name used for a collection of plants from the Aglaonema genus - which tend to tolerate low light conditions very well. Aglaonemas will produce flowers (these are not very showy), but they're grown primarily for the attractive leathery leaves. There are many hybrid varieties of the Chinese evergreen available which have been cultivated over the last century. This is because of their increasing

4-Time NBA Champion Klay Thompson of Golden State Warriors Surprised Cancer Patient Filipino American Joseph Tagaban via Make A Wish Foundation

If you are a basketball fan, specifically the NBA, you probably known a Golden State Warriors basketeer or cager Klay Thompson. Well, just to refresh your memory and get to know him better, Klay Alexander Thompson was born February 8, 1990. He is a four-time NBA champion with the Warriors, he is a five-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Third Team honoree and was once named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. He has also won gold medals with the United States national team on their 2014 World Cup team and 2016 Olympic team. Thompson played college basketball for three seasons with the Washington State Cougars, where he was a two-time first-team all-conference selection in the Pac-10 (now Pac-12). He was selected in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft by Golden State with the 11th overall pick. In 2014, Thompson and teammate Stephen Curry set a then-NBA record with 484 combined three-pointers in a season, earning the pair the nickname of "the Splash Brothers." In 20

The Japanese Manga The First Slam Dunk 2022 Movie

One popular Japanese sports Manga series is Slam Dunk. I remember when I was watching this via free local broadcasting here in the Philippines, I need to hurry back home from school to catch the show as it is broadcasted here late afternoon on a weekday. I have enjoyed watching this series and now, they are trying to make a movie out of it, this makes a lot of fans excited. Just so you know, according to Wiki, Slam Dunk is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It tells the story of a basketball team from Shōhoku High School in the Shōnan area of Japan. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1990 to June 1996, with the chapters collected into 31 tankōbon volumes. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Toei Animation which aired from October 1993 to March 1996 and has been broadcast worldwide, enjoying much popularity particularly in Japan, several other Asian countries and Europe.