6 Antipodean trailblazers, with attitudes to emulate in 2015
Make the tyranny of distance your kingdom (and be grateful for your parents)
Filmmaker and special-effects supremo Peter Jackson
Grayson Brulte: Disincentivizing Online Piracy Through Innovation
Projecting a Robot’s Intentions
A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds.
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT’s Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is, then choose the optimal route to avoid a close encounter.
Zeroing in on the Big Picture
Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015
If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.
Steve Melito: Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship and Economic Strength
Francisco J. Sánchez: Synchronized Factories — The Key to Latin America’s Industrial Future
Almost 10 years later, it is clear that the gamble paid off. The factory has flourished and employs more than 1,800 workers. Bombardier continues to generate profits from its Mexico plants and is expanding there.
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The Next Big (or Really, Really Tiny) Thing in 3D Printing
How to print blood vessels. And apartment buildings
A wedding ring holding a piece of moon rock. Hydroponic garden structures tailored to any shape desired. Jet engine fuel nozzles. An Aston Martin template: These are but a few examples on the growing roster of 3D-printed structures that steadily made tech headlines over the past 18 months.
Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens
In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
How LED Is Lighting the Way Toward Indoor Farming
Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale for maximum impact — with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.
