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The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
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Why Collaborative Storytelling Is The Future Of Marketing
Full Story: FastCompany
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Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012
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The Next Generation Of Scientists
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students of today are tomorrow’s scientists. They’re the future disease curers, bridge builders, space explorers, and in many STEM fields, they’re nearly half women.
In the past decade, the number of degrees that women earned at all levels has steadily increased, which will help close the STEM gap in US’s workforce. Women still have fields where they make up a small minority, but supporting women in these fields is one way to insure a steady pipeline of bright scientists to lead the future of American competitiveness and innovation.
MIT & Khan Academy Launch K-12 Video Channel to Combat Science & Engineering Shortfall
Less than 5% of all degrees awarded in the US are in engineering. Compare that with 21% in Asia and 14% in Europe. The US has been been trying to rise from its image as a service based economy, raising questions about the current predicament during congressional forums and leadership parlances.
Realizing Khan Academy’s milestones in the field of education could be a great way to motivate youth to join these fields, MIT has collaborated with them to get their current students to create 5 - 10 minute videos on anything, from flying robots to basic chemistry, based on feedback from their professors, K-12 students and fellow users. With 75 videos already created and hundreds more in the pipeline, MIT professors hope this will revolutionize online college education as well.
Penn Engineers Replicate the Sense of Touch
Haptics is a field of engineering that is focused on replicating the sense of touch. Simulating the feeling of a surface could make for more immersive entertainment, more edifying educational tools, or more realistic training devices.
Katherine Kuchenbecker, the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is pushing the field of haptics forward with something she calls “haptography.”
3D Printing is the Future
If I told you that you could print your own jewelry, would you believe me? Your first instinct would be “Print Jewelry? This sounds ludicrous.” The best ideas have been called crazy initially, but new scientists are turning nay sayers into believers.
Using purely the raw material, design software and printing apparatus, this video shows us that products can be developed in-house.
Other similar videos include a 3D printer churning out customized cookies. Now that’s something else!
The New iPad, Under The Microscope
Lukas Mathis, a Swiss software engineer and user interface designer, pondered this very question and decided to show exactly what Apple’s latest technological “breakthrough” looks like at 80x magnification.
(via thenextweb)
Apartments built over the streets, waterfalls inside towers and… cave dwelling? Yup. Click the link above to read all about it and see the entire slideshow.
(via worldinnovationforum)
Robotic dinosaurs to be made with 3D printers.
Palaeontologists at Drexel University are using 3D printers to reconstruct dinosaur skeletons, which will be animated using robotics to see how the dinosaurs might have moved and behaved.
The team is first using a 3D scanner to analyse existing bones, before using a 3D printer to construct an exact replica of the skeleton. A mechanical engineer is working with the team to develop the robotic side of the project, but the 3D printing will also allow them to create small-scale models for educational use, and to create exact-size replicas for museum display, without the limitation on the number of copies made and materials and storage hassles of traditional casting methods.
The first goal is to have a working robotic dinosaur limb constructed by the end of 2012. A complete robotic dinosaur replica will take one to two years to create.
While 3D printers have been available for a few years, they have been slow to catch on with home users, instead finding niche markets like in medicine, where they have been used to print organs and tailored prosthetics for patients. The Pirate Bay launched a new category for 3D designs last month, predicting a world where “you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”
Who knows, maybe in the zoo of the future we will be wearing downloaded Nike shoes and watching a robotic Tyrannosaurus chase a newly cloned woolly mammoth!
(via 8bitfuture)
The Tesla Valve: One Way Flow With No Moving Parts
Nikola Tesla invented a one way flow valve allowing the flow of air in one direction and impeding it via the other direction. This is really fascinating considering the application and utility across different mediums. What would be even more fascinating is to understand its movement using visible fluids, a reason why this invention has peaked the interest of many researchers of microfluidics. Thanks David for sharing!
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“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone …. I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
Steve Wozniak | The Rise of the New Groupthink
(via thenextweb)
Carbon-based fibers look to be the future of construction and high-tech manufacturing: the Composite Holding Company bids to bring production of the super-strong, ultra-lightweight carbon material to Russia. A research institute in Dimitrovgrad retools to stave off a coming shortage in the world’s most important diagnostic radioactive isotope. A new waste-to-energy plant is up and running, hopefully making toxic landfills a thing of the past. And the country’s brightest tech entrepreneurs show off their latest wares at the Fourth Russian Innovation Convention.
