23rd of February 2011 10:20 GMT
It's not often that companies talk about the video games that they thought about creating and never got around to completing, but Valve is not the typical developer and its boss has recently mentioned that, at one point before the appearance of Half Life, their main project was a submarine game. Talking on Th...
28th of October 2009 10:48 GMT
The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Autosub6000 is one of the latest, deep-sea exploration vehicles to come out of the United Kingdom. Originally designed to have a maximum diving depth of 6,000 meters, it has been recently tested – at a number of rough locations – at a depth of 3.5 miles (5.63 kilome...
6th of January 2009 14:11 GMT
The implementation of Windows operating systems in military vessels of the Royal Navy has seen the platform go above and beyond the call of duty, and Bill Gates' initial vision that involved home desks beyond corporate infrastructures, which was nothing short of a stretch at the time. Royal Navy submarines are n...
1st of December 2008 11:19 GMT
For a long time during its early years, NR-1 was a classified mission vehicle, the smallest of the Navy's submarine fleet, and the only one that was able and destined to perform search and recovery missions, ocean exploration, as well as underwater installation and maintenance works up to a depth of more than ha...
24th of November 2008 10:03 GMT
Well, we've heard about solar-powered cars, and airplanes, and even trains, but a submarine running on solar energy? Why not, ask the scientists who started Project Goldfish, a German initiative that aims at bringing the pleasure of an underwater ride to the top of the Alps. Lake Thun will host the new project, ...