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Volume 3, Issue 18
25 October 2008
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081820
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 3 –3
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081821
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(5 pages) - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081822
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William Dennis files three reports from Japan. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081823
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(3 pages) - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081824
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- Author(s): S. Somani and C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 18 –18
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081825
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Opinions on the key issues in technology. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 20 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081800
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Our exclusive photoshoot of the latest wearable technology. - Author(s): S. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 28 –30
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081801
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This paper discusses the developments and applications of wearable technologies. People in the very near future will have a whole range of small devices incorporated into their clothing or stuck to their bodies as clever sticking plasters. Much of the research into wearable electronics is focused on medical applications. An obvious extension of this idea is to use such devices to monitor performance and health of people during exercise. Beyond health and wellbeing applications, companies are also looking at incorporating lifestyle devices, such as music players and computers, into clothing. The defence industry is interested in wearable electronics to conceal communication devices in a soldier's clothing. Some of the challenges in incorporating electronics into clothing is the choice of fibre and power source. Cost is another important factor for wearable devices. Despite all the great advances in wearable electronics, there are still some issues to be resolved. Security issues have been considered extensively for mobile telecoms, but it is not yet known whether others might be able to tap into the wealth of personal information being gathered and communicated around our bodies via our clothes. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 31 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081802
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Teleportation is not a realm of science fiction but a way of harnessing the peculiarities of quantum mechanics in new types of secure cryptographic systems. The excitement about teleportation is that it lets us transport delicate quantum states robustly using the quantum property of entanglement. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 34 –36
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081803
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Paper posters look set to be replaced by LCD and plasma screens. Advertising-hoarding companies have begun to deploy active billboards on the high street, often enlisting the help of specialists. Because of the cost of replacing the thousands of sites operated by advertising- space suppliers but also because of size limitations on the electronic displays themselves. The biggest issue with a standard LCD lies in the design the backlight. A consumer LCD is almost always mounted horizontally to suit widescreen TV and film content. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 38 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081804
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Intel aims to skip down to the next chipmaking process so that it can either cut the cost of making its microprocessors or put more of them onto one chip. TSMC is working on two forms of the 28 nm process, one using high-k dielectric and metal gates (HKMG) as well as a more conventional silicon oxynitride-gate process. The move to HKMG will allow the company to compete as a foundry with IBM for microprocessor and other high clock-speed designs. Intel already has HKMG in production in its 45 nm-based devices. - Author(s): M. Felsberg
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 42 –46
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081805
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Designers of artificial cognitive systems (ACS) have, until recently, tended to adopt one of two approaches to thinking robots: classical rule-based artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks. However, a new breed of cognitive, learning robot developed through the European Union-funded project COSPAL (cognitive systems using perception-action learning) combines the best of both worlds. In this paper, the author describes the challenges faced by artificial cognitive system design and defines the progress made through the COSPAL project initiative. - Author(s): B. Sedacca
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 48 –50
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081806
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When hundreds of tourists were stuck on Cape Town's landmark Table Mountain after a power cut, South Africa's power crisis made world news, but the trouble had been brewing for some time. - Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 52 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081807
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Buoyed by new US legislation, utilities are rushing to construct bigger solar farms. - Author(s): T. Sperrey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 54 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081808
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This article deals with the hydrogen-powered cars that are being hailed as green transport for the not-so-distant future, but it could be a few years before we see them available commercially. However, it hasn't stopped fuel cell technology proving its worth in many other applications. Hydrogen fuel cells generate a current by passing hydrogen and oxygen over either side of a special membrane. This allows an exchange of protons through the membrane and causes electrons to flow around the circuit. Fuel cells and hydrogen energy offer an alternative source of power that is sustainable and reduces our dependence on oil and fossil fuel. They offer organisations a way to be cleaner, greener and more energy-efficient while ensuring the success and stability of their operations. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081809
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The general-purpose CPU is undergoing its first revolution by embracing multicores operating in parallel. Such cores resemble the GPUs (graphics processing units) that provide visual processing for PCs and game consoles, with a highly parallel structure making them more efficient for a range of algorithms manipulating vectors or rows of symbols than general purpose CPUs. The even greater challenge, though, lies within the whole software development cycle, from compilers up to high level languages and re-engineering of legacy applications, mulitcore computing. - Author(s): H. Taylor
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 60 –60
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081826
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It's not easy being 'green'. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 60 –60
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081827
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- Author(s): J. Anthony
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 61 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081810
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Data storage isn't just all about capacity: leading storage system vendors are finding ways to optimise system performance with clustered configurations. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 62 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081811
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The author asks if nanotechnology can really bring a shape-shifting, solar charged superphone to life. The Finnish handset maker's vision of how nanotechnology could transform today's mobile phone into a self-cleaning, wearable device that changes shape, detects environmental toxins, runs off small, longer- lasting batteries and uses solar energy to charge. - Author(s): J. Platts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 66 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081812
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Wind energy production is now a large global industry, one which last year installed more than 20,000MW of electricity- generating capacity using around 10,000 wind turbines. All the blades which power the world's growing number of wind turbines are made of composite materials. In this article, the use of carbon-friendly Chinese bamboo to make eco-friendly blades for generating wind energy is reported. - Author(s): J.P. Conti
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 68 –72
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081813
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How are Cubans reacting to the sudden proliferation of mobile phones, personal computers and other gadgets? And what is it like to own a PC in a land where Internet access is severely restricted? - Author(s): J. Mitchener
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 74 –74
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081814
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We're all going to end up wearing more technology, but how will it be organised? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 75 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081815
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WL Gore turns over more than $2.5bn, has a unique management structure, and its 'associates' don't have job titles. As the company celebrates 50 years in business, Nick Smith explores Gore's management philosophies with its team leader John Housego. - Author(s): J. Causon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 78 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081816
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There are many sound reasons for creating a more diverse employee profile. At a time when Western countries are short of qualified engineers it doesn't make sense to narrow the talent pool by discriminating on the basis of gender, colour or creed. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 83 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081828
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Essential dates for your diary. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 91 –91
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081817
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For nearly half a century, revolving restaurants have maintained their image around the world as the height of engineering know-how and gaudy decadence. Dea Birkett takes a look at revolution in dining. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081818
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Mark Sheahan is the first ever 'inventor in residence' at the British Library, and Patrick Andrews is determined to achieve one invention each day. Here they exchange emails on how realistic WALL-E - a clean-up robot of the future from the eponymous Pixar blockbuster - can be from an engineering standpoint. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081829
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Our rundown of new technology books. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 18, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081819
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Vitali Vitaliev, himself a defector from the former USSR, looks at the technology of some of the 20th century's great escapes.
Editorial
News
Asia news
News
Letters to the Editor
If you ask me
Haute-tech couture
Catwalk goes techno (wearable technologies)
Better than fiction [quantum teleportation]
Moving pictures
Seeing the shrink [chipmaking process]
A new breed of robot
Power is money
The bigger the better
Hydrogen set to clean up
Cramming in core values
Viewpoint
Sixty-second interview: Adam Gale
Analysis: Mustering for clustering
Nanotech tonic
Sustainable growth [wind turbine blades]
Cuba calling
What we'll wear
People before profit
The diversity advantage
Events
The global engineer
Inventors inbox: No hard feelings
Book reviews
After all: The pupils of Houdini
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