A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
People logging on to messaging services Chat Roulette, Omegle and Skype got a surprise at the weekend when confronted with a "real life" zombie computer game to play live. A video of their reactions to the first person shooter-style game, played out by actors in response to their commands, had over 1 million views on YouTube in just 12 hours. South Devon film maker David Reynolds made the game in his back garden. All the sound effects, including gun shots, were mixed in live when the unsuspecting players told the actor under their control to fire his gun.
The lead actor wore a bike helmet kitted out with a Go-Pro on the
top of it and a Teradek Cube device to relay the data back to the production office set up in Mr Reynolds' house. He was originally tethered by a long Ethernet cable but kept getting tangled up, Mr Reynolds told.
One Go-Pro was harmed during the making of the film when Mr Reynolds connected the power supply to the HDMI socket by accident. "I was wearing the helmet at the time and I could see smoke rising off it on my shadow," he said.
The action camera firm has now offered to send a replacement
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