Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.

Recycled Smartphones Worth Their Weight in Gold

German company Aurubis, a global leader in recycling copper and precious metals, is making a killing on yesterday’s fashionable technology, which is now considered junk. And Aurubis is the only German company currently recycling smartphones…

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State-of-the-Art Physics Software Elevates Paper Airplane Design to a New Level

For most people, paper airplanes are a delight of being a child and we may revisit the art when we are in college studying aerodynamics or Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithropter, a model plane made of…

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Step Right Up! Next Week’s Industrial Automation Electronics Conference to Focus on Issues and Opportunities in $75 Billion Market

The knock against “automation”, from the Greek word meaning “self-dedicated”, may be that it’s a bit complicated. But companies provide automation equipment and services to make the world a simpler place, ultimately making life and…

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World’s Largest Ship Ever Built and First Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Platform to Begin Drilling in 2017

Shell Oil will soon deploy its, and the world’s, first “Floating Liquefied Natural Gas” (FLNG) platform, built at a cost of $52 billion. The ship took 1.6 million hours front end engineering and design (FEED).…

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Water-Based Nuclear Batteries Could Replace Common Chemical Batteries

Batteries were invented about 200 years ago and have a long history of technological innovation; the common theme has always been making batteries smaller and lighter while improving capacity and efficiency. Most batteries to date…

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IBM’s Watson Has A New Gig: World Class Chef

Combining Food Science & Human Psychology IBM beat the pants off some really smart jeopardy champions a couple years ago and has recently been involved in a project to help doctors more quickly and accurately…

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The Low Carbon Footprint, Convenience and Huge Savings Known as Zipcar

I grew up in the suburbs, where having a car was a necessity; where automobiles are sometimes more important to their owners than family. After cutting my teeth on Manhattan for five years in the…

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Nano-Engineered Super Hydrophobic Materials Mimic Plant’s “Lotus Effect”

One of the old “Holy Grails” of papermaking, with roots in ancient China, was manufacturing paper to be super absorbent, first for artistic effects and later for commercial needs such as cleaning. A relatively new…

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All Year Around, High Volume “Plug and Play” Modified Shipping Container Farms

Anyone Can Grow Food Anywhere, Anytime Limits and problems of huge agribusiness have become self-evident: mass-produced and cosmetically altered fruit, and vegetables that are tasteless and colorless, often transported by plane, ship, train and truck…

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Engineers Build World’s First Rocket-Shaped Nanomotor, 300 Times Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

SciFi Nanomotor Now a Reality Engineers at the University of Texas are making progress toward the goal of creating tiny nanomotors or nano-machines that can move through the body administering drug treatments and targeting harmful…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

Recycled Smartphones Worth Their Weight in Gold

State-of-the-Art Physics Software Elevates Paper Airplane Design to a New Level

Step Right Up! Next Week’s Industrial Automation Electronics Conference to Focus on Issues and Opportunities in $75 Billion Market

World’s Largest Ship Ever Built and First Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Platform to Begin Drilling in 2017

Water-Based Nuclear Batteries Could Replace Common Chemical Batteries

IBM’s Watson Has A New Gig: World Class Chef

The Low Carbon Footprint, Convenience and Huge Savings Known as Zipcar

Nano-Engineered Super Hydrophobic Materials Mimic Plant’s “Lotus Effect”

All Year Around, High Volume “Plug and Play” Modified Shipping Container Farms

Engineers Build World’s First Rocket-Shaped Nanomotor, 300 Times Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

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