Helium is best known as the ultralight element used to lift party balloons and the Goodyear Blimp ... of semiconductor chips. And that’s led many people to cheer the ongoing exploration for ...

Cameron Balloons has been one of the world’s largest and most innovative producers of hot air balloons. In a fascinating hour ...

creating a flame made up of clouds of mist lit by LED rays that organisers described as environmentally-friendly fire. The helium balloon would then take the cauldron 30 metres (98 feet ...

Normally, the helium balloons would have kept rising ... in proximity to the event fed into a belief the balloons had somehow led to their deaths. Taken together, these mishaps enveloped ...

But you can still fly your own with a helium balloon and some electronics. One notable project — the Blimpduino — has evolved into the Blimpduino 2. The open-source software is on GitHub.