Some of the wildest designs in engineering are born from a simple need. In the case of the Floating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, that need was for a research station that could sit dead still in the ...

THIS is the incredible moment the world's weirdest ship deliberately capsized itself and flipped vertically to become a futuristic ocean lab. FLIP, technically called the Floating Instrument Platform, ...

It may look like it’s capsizing, but the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) is the only vessel out there that can operate both horizontally and vertically. It was designed to “flip” at sea so that ...

As ideas go, it seemed, well, a bit crazy. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography turned to the Navy in the 1960s and asked it to build a ship that could flip vertically in the ocean — as though it ...

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We've been hearing about the vivo X Flip vertically folding smartphone for the past few months. And while there's no word from vivo about its launch yet, an unknown vivo device, sporting model code ...

Business graphics don't have to be bland and boring when you have the ability to manipulate them in a variety of creative ways. OpenOffice, the free office productivity suite, has a built-in tool you ...

Watch the FLIP in action as all its fixtures, from generators to toilets, turn 90 degrees together with the immense vessel THIS is the incredible moment the world’s weirdest ship deliberately capsized ...