Recent postsIn part 2 of the series I looked at India and how it tries to implement a large scale operation to upgrade its educational and competitive capability. Today’s example is the United Kingdom, a developed country with steady population and the longest tradition in industry and technology in modern history.
It is the homeland of some [...]
The introductory part of this series stressed the close relationship between technological education/training, employment opportunities and competitiveness. Part 2 is devoted to India, as an example of a rising technological star with large population and high promises.
Unlike China and its manufacturing prowess, India has so far mainly specialised on the service part of the economy. [...]
I have decided to start a small series on employment & competitiveness, and their close relationship to technical know-how. Having lived and worked in different countries and regions in Europe, I have noticed that there is a pattern. In dynamic or traditionally industrial areas there is places and companies that have more steady employment, whereas [...]
Since the appearance of Windows 3 and the proliferation of Microsoft’s operating system, the comparison with Apple’s Macs and operating systems is a popular and never-ending issue of discussion. A lot of ink -and now web pages- are devoted to a topic with no clear answers in sight. The equation became even more complicated when [...]
In part 1 of the series I discussed the practical difficulties for widespread energy harvesting adoption. In this second and last part, I will go through some ways that I believe would make widespread adoption easier and faster. The number of applications is huge and I would say that it is wise to divide them [...]
A few days back I wrote about the Fluxxlab design proposal to harvest energy from revolving doors. Managing to install standalone energy producing devices is a significant event, much like when the first solar panels hit the market in the past. Therefore, I have decided to write a two part series, the first part is [...]
I have come across this interesting article that presents the latest statistics on YouTube video views in terms of number and spread over time from the initial upload. Most videos have a decent chance of being viewed early, even those from unknown videographers with no previous activity on the site. However, some videos keep drawing the crowds [...]
There is loads of opinions on the attempted buyout of Yahoo by Microsoft. Whether there will be a new higher offer is debatable. What matters is that Microsoft needs Yahoo pretty badly in order to enhance its web activities, an area where Redmond’s success has been very limited. Ten years ago we measured success by sales [...]
Source: Telegraph
Big problems require large scale innovative solutions. ElectronRun has so far covered solar proposals for the energy needs of the EU and the US. Now OTEC artificial energy islands come as another large scale idea whose main energy source is water temperature differences. The idea is that when we have a difference of about [...]
Hard-disc? What hard-disc? Spinning platters and moving heads are not yet out of fashion for our personal computers, but in high performance space and military applications expectations are very different. BiTMICRO is very experienced in this field and is now upping the ante by offering 1.6 TB of capacity -up from the previous 832 GB- [...]
Source: Reuters
The first robotic car tank filling I have seen was at experimental hydrogen stations in Iceland. Hydrogen is simply too dangerous to handle manually, so cap height, cap shape and filling mechanism were all designed as one system. Now Dutch inventors automate the care tank filling task with a robot that costs €75,000. It [...]
The Barcelona Mobile World Congress of 2008 is finishing tomorrow, and those that are following events even superficially must have already got the message. Smartphones and mobile operating systems are all the rage, and later in 2008 we are going to see some really cool new models. Here is some facts from the event worth [...]
Source: Fluxxlab
Remember the Matrix movie and the way humans became grown heat-producing plants to provide for their machine lords? The word “harvesting” gives me the crawls, but luckily harvesting in this world is for our own benefit and energy dependence. Interesting ideas so far are the energy harvesting from gym users or vibrations from trains [...]
I was reading last week how Apple fans feel an air of superiority against Microsoft users. Well it seems that Linus Torvalds, the famous Linux boy, is not eating any of this. When in Melbourne for Linux Conference Australia that finished on February the 2nd, he was asked to compare Microsoft Windows to Apple OS [...]
Source: Greater Helsinki Vision 2050 - “Emerald” submission
In a previous post I have written about the technological ascent of Finland in the last three decades. It is a country that does not rest on its laurels but looks far ahead with planning and environmental sensitivities rarely met in most parts of this world.
Helsinki is the [...]
