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Machine Design Blogs
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See a funny VIDEO on "failed roadside assistance"...
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This from a publication called UU World News item: UUs participate in global warming conference, rally "..........Organizers called the March 2 blockage the largest mass action ever held in the U.S. against global warming. Protestors had to brave a snowstorm,...
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Here is an interesting statistic from the Competitive Enterprise Institute: In 2007, the New York Independent Budget Office reported that New York City was spending 23 percent more to recycle waste than it would cost to dispose of it. It also spends $6...
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Here is an interesting item from the U. of Missouri. Mizzou was suing one of its own professors over royalties from a patent invented in University labs. What is not said in the item or the comments is that Universities asserting rights to royalties from...
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Suppose you could ask your encyclopedia to not only spit out facts, but to perform an analysis with those facts or compute the answers to a math problem for you. A free Web site set to go live this month promises to do all this. Its called WolframAlpha...
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One company we interviewed today at the CMEF show here in Schenzen, China was the Perlong Group, which manufactures analog and digital X-ray imaging equipment. Most of the company's sales are in China and it does not yet have CE and FDA approvals to target...
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Here is what a hair-raising situation sounds like. The FAA has released tapes of the conversations between air traffic controllers and the private pilot who successfully landed a twin-engine King Air in Florida recently after the pilot died at the controls....
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Now here's an example of tax dollars at work. Anheuser-Bush, the company that brings you Budweiser, is getting $1.1 million in federal stimulus dollars to put fuel cells in 23 of the electric lift trucks in its Fort Collins, Colo. plant. That comes to...
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Readers of Machine Design might recall one of our recent articles in which we described a new way of automating the process of getting oil out of algae for use in biofuels. OriginOil, the folks who came up with this process, have put out a new video that...
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Breakfast for me consisted of vegtables, corn-on-the-cob, and "sticky rice" which comes wrapped in a leaf and parchment paper. This morning we attended the opening ceremonies for the 61'st annual CMEF event currently being held in Schenzen, China. The...
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Yesterday's blog item discusses live the first leg of my trip to Schenzen, China, to attend the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF). The flight from Newark, N.J. to Beijing was about 15 hours long (7,000-odd miles). I had to figure out how...
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I'm waiting at the Cleveland, Ohio airport for a flight to Newark, N.J. and from there on to Beijing, China. Final destination Shenzhen, China to attend the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) held April 18 to 21. According to the CMEF Web...
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We spent yesterday learning about new features and advancements in Autodesk's 2010 products: First, the developer stresses how well its programs work together to provide a digital prototype which acts as a master model and lets engineers work concurrently...
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I'm attending Autodesk Manufacturing Tech Day in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Just got back from the welcoming dinner at Oba Restaurante in Portland with the rest of the group of technical media and bloggers. Portland stikes me as such a clean city. It is a small...
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This item from the Chronicle of Higher Education serves as an interesting commentary on the situation for jobs for people with advanced degrees. There have been commentators who have said it only made sense for foreigners to get a PhD in the US because...
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Social-networking tools allow for more free-for-all communication than traditional publishing methods because users can quickly and creatively collaborate. But — interesting conundrums can arise. For example, what would you think if you are using something...
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Watch cool videos of the Transition — a plane that turns into a car! http://www.terrafugia.com/videogallery.html...
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Last year, I traveled to Shenzhen, China and am to go again in mid April. The city looks kind of like portions of Florida, with palm trees, wide flower-lined streets, and glittering skyscrapers. It is on the South China Sea, just north of Hong Kong. Important...
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Here is a short but interesting interview with Sherry Turkle, professor of social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has a new book out in which she tracks difficulties that can arise from computer simulations....
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Here's something you don't see every day: An academic who discourages people from pursuing advanced degrees. He is talking about advanced degrees in the humanities, but some of what he says has the ring of truth even for advanced degrees in engineering...
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"Let the material do the talking" is one of the ideas behind GINA, BMW's concept sports car. Instead of a metal body, it has one made from stretchable material. Thus, designers don't have to worry about, say, smooth continuity between the wheel wells...
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Toilet paper seems to be the latest environmental guilt trip, judging by this piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/article/?id=1239&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en The funniest part of this comes from...
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Here's how NASA does it on the Space Station. http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=081119_RecycledUrine&mode =...
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China might look a lot better than the U.S. right now for those affected by the drastic economic slow-down. After all, the Chinese government is stimulating the economy there in a way that will produce real jobs quickly, in contrast to the ineffective...
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Readers who are old enough to remember when Paul Volcker was the Federal Reserve Board chairman will probably also know he is still held in high regard. He is credited with stopping the run-away inflation that gripped the country in the late 1970s and...
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