Picture driving by a sprawling meadow. As you look out of the window, a black vertical hair seems to be hanging in front of your eye and it catches your attention. But then you notice that it is fixed in space… It’s a thin black line, almost like the trace of a film-scratch on a picture. Seeing that …
The 111 Navy Chair designed by Emeco has won “Best in Show” at the International Plastics Design Competition, sponsored by the Society of the Plastics Industry in the US. The design may be classic, but the material is not – recycled PET drinks bottles are used in its manufacture. Winner of the medical …
What Would You Create with a Revolutionary Touch Sensor? What if you had a high-performance, highly flexible touch sensor that enabled you to develop products with curved surfaces, or even add functionality on edges? What would you create with a breakthrough new sensor for your touch-enabled tablet, phone or other …
3-D Printing Is So Last Year: MIT’s “Self-Assembling Sand” Builds Objects Instantly IT SOUNDS LIKE SCI-FI, AND IT COULD EVENTUALLY MAKE RAPID-PROTOTYPING SEEM QUAINT. If Terminator 2 taught us anything, it was that a properly timed thumbs-up can make us cry. Also, autonomous, self-shaping blobs are a …
Got any UK based female friends that had to be nominated? The First Women Awards, supported by the IMechE, recognise pioneering women across UK industry, who have also actively created opportunities for other women to follow in their footsteps. Previous winners include women from UK manufacturing, science and …
