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Heron of Alexandria
Heron of Alexandria was an ancient engineer way before his time. His creations astonish me, that someone from the first century C.E. could create these works of technology. Heron of Alexandria was...
View ArticleService Industry
America’s service sector makes up the majority of the economy. As shown by this map, our GDP is almost entirely made up of Service, rather than Agriculture or Industry. The Service Industry is...
View ArticleHand Sketching, Relevant?
Although sketching by hand has been used for quite a long time by engineers to describe objects, a new alternative has recently been popping up: Computer Aided Design. These programs, such as...
View ArticleIntellectual Property
The interesting thing about intellectual property is that it doesn’t fit the normal paradigm of capitalism and trade. The old mechanism of “I give you access to something, and it is no longer mine”...
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Sustainable buildings
Sustainable buildings are designed such that they are energy and resource efficient throughout the construction, life, and demolition of the building. They either create energy for the building’s own...
View ArticleSystem design
When designing for a system, the fact that is is interconnected makes it much more complex than something in isolation. This is kind of a trivial distinction to make, because just about everything...
View ArticleWhat it means to be human
For most living things, “what it means” to be that living thing is simply to survive long enough to reproduce. At one point, finding food, shelter, and protecting from predators was the human’s primary...
View ArticleRapid Prototyping
From what I’ve been shown about rapid prototyping in class, I find it to be remarkably cool. Rapid Prototyping is truly the bridge between the gap of the physical and virtual world. Before taking...
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Google Glasses
When I think of “the future”, this is one of the visions I get in my mind: http://www.pcworld.com/article/253404/google_glasses_all_hype_or_reality.html Google glasses is a prototype idea by Google...
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Preventing Traffic Jams?
This article shows a new technology by Honda aimed to prevent traffic jams. It does so by offering feedback to the driver to stop driving styles that would cause traffic jams. Traffic jams usually...
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