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People, automation and safety

IEEE Spectrum had an article this month on efforts to have cars talk to each other, improving safety, fuel consumption and traffic congestion. This article focused on efforts in the EU, but similar activities are taking place in Japan and the US.

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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 7:02 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Re-rounding rebounding?

I was privileged to attend and speak at the Global Business Forum in Banff, Canada last week. It was the 9th iteration of a very well run gathering of business and governmental leaders with an impressive slate of speakers and roster of participants. While much of the discussion was on the recent financial events, top topics also included energy, security and the upcoming U.S. Presidential elections.

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Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:04 AM by Jeff Wacker | 0 Comments

Can Innovation Games help organizations create innovative products and services?

I recently read the book Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, 2007, Luke Hohmann. In his book, Luke describes a series of twelve interactive techniques which help organizations create the products and services customers buy. The games you play are related to your goals and objectives.

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Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:09 PM by Dan Gonos | 3 Comments

NASA BIOsensor Helps Detect Biohazards

This news release from Ames Research Center describes an effort to use nanotechnology (Carbon Nano Tube) based sensors to "detect the presence of common and rare strains of microorganisms associated with water-borne illnesses".

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Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:21 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Tony Stark’s Basement Lab

I'm not much of a fan of comic book super heroes, but the flashy previews for Marvel's Iron Man drew me in because I love fast cars, cool military gear and planes. What was really impressive was the collaborative design environment in the mansion's basement. The multi-panel wrap around displays, voice driven AI, integrated robots, concept-to-design-to-build-to-test, version control , etc., all wrapped together gave me a severe case of "shop envy". I really liked the ability to "reach into the design" to try it on before building. I want one!! His personal testing methodology left a lot to be desired (looked pretty painful!).

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Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:01 AM by Ed Kettler | 3 Comments

The fourth element of electrical engineering

This month there is an article on the Memristor in IEEE spectrum. Anyone who knows anything about electronics is familiar with the holy trinity of electrical engineering: the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor. In 1971, Leon Chua of UC Berkeley, predicted that there should be a fourth element: a memory resistor, or memristor. But no one knew how to build one. 37 years later, electronics have finally gotten small enough to create this device. Hewlett-Packard researchers revealed in the journal Nature (subscription required) that it was hiding within the electrical characteristics of nano-scale devices.

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:42 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Graphene the soul of a new machine???

Earlier this week the Purdue Computer and Electrical Engineering school had their semi-annual meeting in Dallas. At this presentation Professor Jim Cooper of the Birck NanoTechnology Center talked about Graphene.

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Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 8:13 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Nano train leaving the station!

NewScientist.com has an article and picture of a nanoscale "monorail" that can move along a nanotube track. It has carried a gold nugget a distance of 0.5 micrometers.  The new device developed by researchers in Europe is made from two nanotubes nested like the parts of a telescope.

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Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:35 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Meaning of Global

I've been working with a large manufacturing company that has operated internationally for a very long time. This company has been working towards being truly global across all lines of business, including functional areas, for many years. Some areas of the business have succeeded in functioning global but others have only recently become aware of the frame of reference change required for their area of the business to operate as a global function.

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Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:53 PM by Terry White | 2 Comments

Another nanotech roadmap

Foresight Nanotech Institute, a leading nanotechnology think tank, and Battelle, a leading global research and development organization, have officially unveiled Productive Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap.

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Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:56 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

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