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ENGINEERING.COM, with its mission to inform, inspire and entertain the world’s engineers — and future engineers — is returning as a key sponsor of the USA Science & Engineering Festival and Expo in 2014. Widely known for having its fingers directly on the pulse of the fascinating, ever-evolving realm of engineering innovation, ENGINEERING.COM will help expand the…
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No more scrambling around to find a power outlet.
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Hey, happy Flag Day! A day to celebrate pretty colors and salutes and all sorts of other patriotic stuff. Like, say, taxes — the very lifeblood of the state that the flag symbolizes. Except, oops. Nobody seems to think taxes are patriotic anymore, and in fact nobody even wants to hear much about them. As [...]
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The Tripe Marketing Board wants to inform, tell, persuade or suggest to you, or to someone, that: “The Tripe Marketing Board was set up in 1992 to replace The Tripe Council when its CEO, Paul Mellor, left to pursue a solo career. The Tripe Council was originally known as The Tripe Industry Development Council and, briefly, [...]
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Recycle that old Bon Jovi cassette tape: make it into a sonic jacket. Continue reading →
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A flying bike gets airborne for a five-minute, remote-controlled flight, compliments of six propellers. Continue reading →
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Kees Moeliker prepared a full report, with photos, about what happened on Dead Duck Day 2013. Here’s the beginning: Wednesday, June 5th 2013 was the 18th Dead Duck Day. At exactly 17:55h about 50 people gathered just outside the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam…. [read the entire report on Kees's blog]
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The formation of holes (a.k.a. ‘eyes’) in Swiss Cheese has been the focus of intense scientific scrutiny for more than a century. For a state-of-the art review of the literature – as it was around 100 years ago – see the work of William Mansfield Clark, [pictured right] late DeLamar professor of physiological chemistry at [...]
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This medical paper demonstrates how to intrigue the reader right away, in the first two sentences: “Fracture penis: a case more heard about than seen in general surgical practice,” Manash Ranjan Sahoo, Anil Kumar Nayak, Tapan Kumar Nayak, Anand S, BMJ Case Reports, 2013.The authors, at SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India, begin their report [...]
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This week we had quite a few interesting threads on the interwebs about signals acquisition and making sense of them. While the former seems to be feasible thanks to Moore's law, the latter is, in view of the different results mentioned here and elsewhere, likely substandard. The real issue is: do policymakers understand there is a difference between acquiring data and making sense of them in the same way that there is a difference between a rental car company taking a reservation and
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All the garbage produced and wasted will eventuallyend up in the oceans and major water bodies. Then, currents will turn it into micro particles and accumulate them into certain areas creating the so called garbage patch. Such GP poses a big threat to marine ecosystem. It looks like food to fish, birds and other creatures. This garbage is undigestible, and once swallowed it fill the animals stomach creating a fatal blockageImage 1. Debris extracted from water bodiesSource: National geographicIn […]
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In Zimbabwe, a major road upgrade project will use off grid tollbooths to recoup a portion of the project’s costs. Made possible by the combined use of energy efficient design, solar power, and diesel generators, these tollbooths are believed to be the first ever to supply 100% of their power without an electric grid. The [...]
