Design

The Future of Haptics & Touch Enabled Technologies

The more one hears of the amazing capabilities of new technology, the more one’s appreciation grows for what humans are capable of. Take, for example, SynTouch, and advanced system that quantifies the sense of touch…

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Product Designer Uses Shrunken Plastic Bottles as an Experimental Wood-Joining Technique

Product designer Micaella Pedros had a great idea when contemplating how to create a new bonding material. Pedros began the ‘Joining Bottles’ project, which works like it sounds. By taking shrunken plastic and applying heat,…

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Sensor Based Planning for Consumer Products & Manufacturing

Sensors for Consumer Products People worldwide are now becoming familiar with smart watches, smart thermostats, smart refrigerators, smartphones, diabetic meal planning sensors, and more. All of these products are being improved at a breakneck pace;…

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Computer Science at the Core of Most Problems & Solutions

The Complexity & Importance of Computer Science According to Springer.com, the areas listed below are a key part of computer science. These are advanced areas that people concentrate in after years of studying the fundamentals,…

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Chevrolet Debuts Life-Sized Lego Batmobile Featuring More Than 300,000 Bricks

Chevrolet had something special lined up for the attendees of NAIAS 2017. The company unveiled a life-sized LEGO Batmobile comprised of more than 300,000 bricks, a project that took roughly 222 hours to design and…

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Viewing Megacities as Living Organisms in the Urban Century

A Global Urban Renaissance? That the 21st century will be the “Urban Century” is not in dispute: the question is what kind of urban century will it be? Will it be Dickensian, Utopian or somewhere…

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The Future of Manila Depends on Land Reclamation Project

Land reclamation, or “land fill,” has no relation to “landfill,” places where garbage is buried. Land fill is the process of creating new land on riverbeds, lakes, and oceans. Many land reclamation projects start to…

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Boeing’s New Starliner Spacesuits for NASA Look Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Flick

Boeing’s new Starliner spacesuits look simple, yet modern. In fact, they look exactly like what someone ten years ago would have envisioned when making a science fiction film about 2017. Love or hate the new…

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The World’s Largest Market for Robots & Mechanical Helpers

Word is that soon chicken farming factory operations, with as many as 3 million chickens in one location, will be tended and maintained by robots. China’s CP Group, one of China’s largest poultry producers, has…

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Got Data? What is it Worth?

Data: The Future of Everything Data in and of itself isn’t worth anything, at least according to Jim Porcarelli of NeueVu (see video below). According to Porcarelli, the value of data depends on how it’s…

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