It's no secret that laptops hoover up battery life like a fat kid at a marshmallow convention. Windows Vista doesn't help matters; those fancy Aero Glass effects are a significant new demand on ...

Windows only: Open-source system tray utility Aerofoil helps keep your Windows notebook running longer by automatically turning off Aero Glass and other battery-sucking preferences when you ...

[Waalcko] fell in love with kites when he was 13 years old. He saw a NASA Para Wing kite fly and couldn’t get it out of his head. Now, years later, he shares how to build a circular foil kite… ...

The Jacket Specs. To be fair, Mountain Equipment doesn’t call the Aerofoil a windbreaker. They call it a soft shell—but make no mistake, this baby is designed to neutralize the wind.

On this best performing aerofoil, at almost all angles of attack lift was increased and drag was reduced, compared with the denticle-free control. The denticle aerofoil even generated lift at zero ...

Aerofoil's solution can be fixed to existing cabinets and use technology normally reserved for aeroplane wings and Formula 1 car spoilers, keeping food chilled but not customers.

Aerospace engineers have used studies of birds in flight to further research into improved aerodynamics, the development of shapeshifting wings, how mid-air collisions might be better avoided, and ...

The history of the first aerofoil could date back 1000 years with the boomerang. As early aviators discovered, the secret to flight is balancing the flow of air.

Aerofoil hails groundbreaking Leeds launch (l-r) Leeds city councillor Tony Murray, Rick Hindley of Alupro and Kristel Suijkerbuijk, deodorant category sustainability manager for Unilever, at the ...