Important Innovations Collection

 A "Fitting Tribute to the Internal Combustion Engine"                                                  Source:  Praga Cars World's Most Impressive Hypercar A company many of us never heard of - the 115-year-old Czech engineering and race car manufacturer Praga Cars - is developing a car that automotive experts are calling the world's most impressive hypercar.  The Praga Bohema is automotive innovation on wheels.  Bohema is a street legal, 700 hp race car, inspired by Formula 1. The 2-seater is capable of speeds of 186 mph.  89 Bohema's will be hand built to honor the 89th anniversary of Praga's historic 1933 road race victory.  Customer deliveries will happen in 2023.  Believe it or not, in this age of electrified vehicles, Bohema is powered by a turbocharged and highly tuned, high performance 3.8-l...

Digital Fun and Games                                                                                     Source: Skoda Spectacular New Design Study Czech-based electric carmaker Skoda  has just unveiled a stunning digital design study, called the Skoda Vision GT, to showcase the future potentialities of automotive technologies and design.  The Vision GT is a digital tease of an electric race car that is based on the original,1957 Skoda 100 OHC sports car. The digital version is a single seat, open-top all electric race car with a low body and very advanced aerodynamics.  Style and Power The imaginary, digital vehicle has sleek, futuristic styling with sharp lines but also touches of the 1957 1100 OHC with its muscular body proport...

3D Mapping Source: Diver in flooded cave stock image New Technology from Czechoslovakia  Czech speleologists have developed a new technology using 3D printing to explore flooded caves without dangerous and numerous scuba diving explorations.  The technology has been developed by Geo-CZ, a company that uses the underlying tech to map archaeological and historic sites. Computerized Modelling, 3D Imaging To do it, the cave needs to be filmed robotically or by one dive.  The film is used to convert the cave into a computer model.  Cave specialists say the 3D imaging gives them much more information about the cave as a whole and the connections among corridors within the cave.  It's an important discovery and would have been of great use in Thailand when a dozen school children were trapped in a flooded cave about a year ago.  Fortunately they were rescued but it took days.