techies 30: New Body Part Found & yeah.. a team is far better dn an individual soldier so here is new techies

Cool new human eye part discovered behind cornea

Just when you think scientists know everything about human anatomy they go and find a new body part. The new part, dubbed "Dua's layer," has the ophthalmology community abuzz with excitement. It's a a micro-thin structure found behind the cornea. Apparently, the feature has been lurking there since the beginning of time but since it's only 15 microns thick (there are more than 25,000 microns in an inch), nobody had ever spotted it. The discovery is hoped to make eye operations safer and may have implications for keratoconus, a degenerative eye disorder that causes the cornea to take on a cone shape It was discovered by Dr Harmindar Dua.. So Yeah.. Indians did it again.. :D

Distributed Flight Array

We’ve all heard the expression: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Alone, these vehicles can drive about on the ground, but it is not until they assemble that they are able to fly.

The Distributed Flight Array is a flying platform consisting of multiple autonomous single propeller vehicles that are able to drive, dock with their peers, and fly in a coordinated fashion. Once in flight the array hovers for a few minutes, then falls back to the ground, only to repeat the cycle again.

Distributed Estimation and Control

The individual vehicles of the Distributed Flight Array have fixed propellers that can lift them into the air, but the resulting flight is erratic and uncontrolled. Joined together, however, these relatively simple modules evolve into a sophisticated multi-propeller system capable of coordinated flight. The task of keeping the array in level flight is distributed across the network of vehicles. Vehicles exchange information and combine this information with their own sensor measurements to determine how much thrust is needed for the array to take-off and maintain level flight. If the array’s leveled flight is disturbed, each vehicle individually determines the amount of thrust required to correct for the disturbance based on its position in the array and the array’s motion.