Building Automation & Controls Market to Reach $50 billion by 2018

Building Automation and Controls (BAC) are a combination of hardware and software that control a building’s power systems; lighting and illumination; electric power and control; security, observation and magnetic card access; heating, ventilation and air-conditioning…

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PlayStation & Xbox Consoles Enhancing High-Performance Military Computer Simulations

Simulating Life and Death For soldiers, being well-trained can make the difference between life and death. Not only are soldiers using individual versions of computer games to simulate real-life combat but the Defense Department is…

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Programming Cells to Perform Disease-Fighting Computations

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Surgical Snake Robots: Accessing Organs and Tissues Deep in the Body

In a recent IndustryTap article “InSightec of Israel . . .” we looked at the next generation non-invasive operating room; clearly the development of minimally invasive technologies to repair and diagnose illnesses is a major…

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Haskel’s “No-Hassle” Liquid Pump Selector Saves Time and Money

Unproductive online searching for critical information on key products is so “last century.” Keeping with its history and mission of providing excellent products and service Haskel International (Haskel) has introduced an innovative online search tool.…

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Ten Ways to Transform Cities through Placemaking & Public Spaces

In 2011, UN-HABITAT and Project for Public Spaces (PPS) signed a 5-year cooperative agreement to aspire to raise international awareness of the importance of public space in cities, to foster a lively exchange of ideas…

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How did West, Texas Plant Explosion Register 2.1 on the Richter Scale?

Similar to Oklahoma City Bombing The most well-known and highly publicized incident illustrating the devastating effects of an ammonium nitrate explosion was the Oklahoma City bombing in 1994. That explosion involved one hundred 50 pound…

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Visualizing the Future of 2020

View the full size PDF document here or double click on chart at bottom of this page! The following chart and categories were created by Richard Watson author of “The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to…

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World’s Largest Canal Will Bring Water to Parched Northern Chinese Cities by 2018

IndustryTap has written about the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, China’s Three Gorges Dam, and China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) project and its planned extension to Europe as a new Silk Road. Now China is breaking ground on…

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Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours

Knowledge Doubling Curve Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today…

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