| With modern day haptics technologies some of the | | | | totally silent. |
| potential applications in the future are quite | | | | Think of the value to shipping companies, which are |
| astounding indeed. Although many have not | | | | trying to stay efficient, fuel is 50% of their costs; oil |
| considered large scale morphing technologies using | | | | tankers, cargo ships, even military ships. |
| haptics as the driver along with artificial intelligence | | | | Another problem we could fix is aircraft that could |
| schemes to propel optimum efficiency, well maybe | | | | perform at both high and low speeds, with optimal |
| they should? | | | | co-efficient of drag. For instance, if the winglets on |
| One thought I had once was to get a pipeline, that | | | | the wing of an aircraft could move based on the |
| actually pushed the interior in and out to pump the | | | | need of the airflow, based on relative wind and |
| water and it would use the pressure sensors to feel | | | | speed of aircraft. The wing itself would take |
| the flow of the waves inside the pipe, thus, | | | | information from the sensors and have an artificial |
| controlling the flow rate, even driving it uphill without | | | | intelligent computer system driving the mechanism. |
| a pump as we know it today. | | | | Morphing wings with no flaps or slats would have less |
| Still, I was thinking about Dual Boat Hulls or | | | | external moving parts that create unnecessary drag |
| submarines, you could literally make the skin of the | | | | and can too easily fail. It appears that these |
| vessel move with the water, thus, no friction and | | | | technologies are available now and totally underutilized |
| silent running at much higher speeds. Right now the | | | | considering the fast paced high-tech world we live in, |
| US Navy Subs have to stay at under 10 knots to run | | | | think on this. |