I’m often asked what my favorite weird/obscure fact about New York City was. Ironically, as the founder of Untapped New York, this question frequently proves difficult because there are just so many ...

Imagine, if you will, a secret community dwelling beneath the streets of New York City, its inhabitants never allowed to travel to the surface or to interact in any way with the dreaded “Topsiders.” ...

Once it’s swallowed up by a series of pneumatic tubes, the canister embarks on a dark, shadowy journey unseen by the human eye. But now we have GoPros, and now we can see exactly what the inside of a ...

A pneumatic system is one of the most commonly used types of instrument powering a variety of tools and equipment. From dentist tools, automatic doors, paint sprayers, to massive factory machines, ...

The actuation of cams, detents, and levers has long been the forte of pneumatic or hydraulic systems in machines. These systems are generally open loop. The only verification that the system has ...

Built-in flow sensors improve machine efficiency, reduce downtime, and cut costs. Compressed air is second only to electricity in importance as an industrial energy source, and there is hardly a ...

Earlier this month, we found an NYC coffee shop designed to sort, roast, and transport its coffee beans around the store through the use of vacuum-aided pneumatic tubes. Almost two years ago, we found ...

How do you build a pneumatic power system? We turned to Festo, an industrial control and automation company that produces pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology for factory or process ...

Pneumatic devices use the power of compressed air (air that has been squashed tightly into a space) to make something move. The compressed air or gas can be used to move motors, cylinders or other ...