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Volume 4, Issue 3
14 February 2009
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0325
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 3 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0326
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- Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 11 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0300
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The paper mentions that the semiconductor business is going through a horrendous time, but market-watchers think the worst may soon be over. Market analysts are forecasting a slow return to growth for chip sales, believing the worst of the economic storm is already overhead. With investment in production capacity at an all-time low relative to sales, 2010 could see the return of shortages and price hikes. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 12 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0327
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0328
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- Author(s): S. Turkle and N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 16 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0329
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 18 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0301
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Lego, the company (often capitalised as LEGO to set it apart from the product, Lego), insists it is not childish: they just want to encourage the child in all of us. The word Lego, as its many fans know, is a contraction of Leg Godt, or play well. The motive behind bringing out the inner child is a serious one: look how many great inventions were conceived in the spirit of play. The company encourages a culture of playfulness - 'off-beatness' - within its own walls. - Author(s): P. Neroth
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 22 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0302
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This paper presents Bee Thakore, an engineer who wants to change the world with a little plastic brick. And that's not all: she wants to change outer space too. Now Thakore, shortlisted for the IET's Young Woman Engineer of the Year award, wants to hook in a range of beneficiaries: from astronauts to Indian villagers. Lego, she feels, should be regarded not as a toy but as an important tool that can save lives, and her ambition to harness tens of millions of people around the world via Internet will help them to help themselves. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0303
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The article discusses the theme " falling for technology", i.e, how the things that we play with as children lead us into careers in science and technology, and shape our habits of mind. A surprising number of the student essays focus on lego. Lego offers fast results, infinite flexibility, and a way to create an ordered world to our liking. - Author(s): N. Gilman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 26 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0304
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These days, millions of people are participating in a globalised hacker culture that has evolved from a narrow subculture of alpha-nerds into a highly collaborative 'industry', increasingly populated by seasoned professionals, many of whom are not even technologists. This industry is enormous. Cybersecurity professionals and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation estimate that the global hacker criminal economy is currently worth at least $10bn annually, causes perhaps $100bn in annual damage, and sports an up to 30 per cent growth rate. With these kinds of profits at stake, hackers are increasingly disciplined and profit- motivated. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0305
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This week we pit two emerging 3D TV technologies against one another and we take a back-to-basics approach to picking the right flat screen. - Author(s): A. Charlesworth
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 32 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0306
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Smartphones are evolving rapidly in sophistication. What will they be capable of in a year or two or even five years' time? How do you define a smartphone? Devices like Apple's iPhone, RIM's Blackberry and, say, a Nokia E61, are clearly the physical manifestation. But what identifies them as smarter than ordinary mobile phones? Is it just down to functionality? Smartphones now carry email client, Web browser, GPS functionality, desktop synchronisation tools, as well as organiser-type functions such as diary, contacts, notepad and voice recorder. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 34 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0307
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Could technology one day be so simple that consumers will build their own gadgets? The author went to the Consumer Electronics Show and met the companies inspired by Lego. - Author(s): L. Collins and C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 38 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0308
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This paper presents the head to head of the two market leaders in FPGA industry, Xilinx and Altera. - Author(s): M. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0309
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The author discovers how educational charity FIRST is using Lego to inspire the next generation to follow a career path into science and technology. How do you get children interested in science and technology? By making it fun and interesting. There can be no doubt that learning to build robots can be educational and fun, and one company has cornered the market. - Author(s): J. Dorfman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 46 –46
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0310
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MIT's entry for the Grand Challenge race is leading to a forklift for handling vital supplies in some of the most deadly places in the world. The new robotic device will provide a safer way to handle pallet-loaded supplies of everything from truck tyres to water containers and construction materials. The new device is being designed so that it can operate outdoors on uneven terrain such as gravel or packed earth. - Author(s): C. Fry
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 48 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0311
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The article presents a Malmo suburb in Sweden as the city of the future. It highlights the struggles of the city for sustainable living to become a model for the city of tomorrow. - Author(s): D. Lewis
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0312
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As the UK increases its use of wind power, the power grid will come under growing pressure to balance the load. Today, the UK is committed to European Union targets to deliver 35 percent of electricity from renewables by 2020. - Author(s): P. Hunter
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 56 –58
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0313
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A crunch in data storage, unlike credit, has been long predicted but never seems to quite materialize. This is partly because ongoing improvements in disk density and cost per bit have matched the inflationary growth of storage itself until recently. Of one prediction we can be certain, that this felicitous situation cannot continue. There are already signs that the increase in disk drive densities and costs per bit are decelerating. The paper reports on the emerging advanced storage technologies that are ready to help mop up the flood. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 59 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0314
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This paper presents the use of photonic interconnects that will accelerate data transmission by enormous magnitudes at botdevice and component levels. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 62 –62
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0315
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Virtualising the data centre seems to be a win-win situation, and could play a major part in protecting IT revenues against the recession. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 64 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0316
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Anyone who has enjoyed the experience of building with Lego bricks can confirm that one of the primary joys is their ability to stay attached, yet be disassembled with ease. And such precision is a much valued manufacturing strength of the Denmark-based organisation. Lego manufacture their bricks in three countries - Denmark, Hungary and Mexico - although the plant in Billund, Denmark produces over 80 per cent of the mouldings. "If you break that down into the manufacturing skills, there are only two distinct capabilities that we have," Niels Duedahl, Lego vice president of manufacturing, explains. "The first thing is the tolerance on moulding. - Author(s): M. Farish
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 68 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0317
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It is not on the road that automotive manufacturers are striving to be ecologically friendly. Japanese car maker Toyota is generally regarded as setting benchmark standards in lean' manufacturing, in other words production processes in which waste and inefficiency are continuously driven towards minimal levels. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 70 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0318
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A European project may have created the building blocks for the world's first practical communications network secured by quantum theory. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 74 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0319
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We'd all like less tangle in our lives. But can the 'wireless wire' standards that are emerging to help us cut the cord thrive in this economic climate? Wireless connectivity has been all the rage in the consumer industry for years, as customers yearn to do away with the spaghetti of cables that accumulates behind TV cabinets, around office desks and under docking stations. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 76 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0320
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Mike Kobold owns a US-based watch manufacturing company, where he runs the business, designs the products and totally embraces the brand's core value adventure. He talks exclusively to E&T about his 'hands on' style of management. - Author(s): J. Wright
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0321
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The paper discusses about job security. The article looks at two staples of insecurity. First, working for two superiors, both of which are demanding to prioritise their work, and second the budget slashing of the company. Case studies in a generalised situation are also presented. The information and advice given here conforms to what is believe to be best practice. The advice given here is not a substitute for legal advice. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 83 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0330
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The latest dates for your diary. - Author(s): N. Spurrier
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 90 –92
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0322
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English seaside town Margate is built on a heritage of seaside attractions. Like many British seaside towns threatened by the irreversible decline of their traditional attractions, Margate, is attempting to reinvent itself. With much of its hope for revival pinned on regeneration through the arts, some people are looking forward to a multi-million pound art gallery to be built in celebration of the artist JMW Turner, for whom Margate's sunsets provided inspiration. However, nostalgia buffs believe that the town's existing heritage can prove an attraction, and are hoping to preserve some of its assets. One of these is the Dreamland Amusement Park. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 93 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0323
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Dea Birkett on the largely lost art of getting lost and the new-found gadgets that have contributed to that loss. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0324
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Our resident and far from infantile inventors, Mark Sheehan and Patrick Andrews, exchange emails on how to create educational and environmentally-friendly children's toys. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 3, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.0331
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Vitali 'Two Stents' Vitaliev on a pioneering electronic device which has saved his life.
Editorial
News
Analysis: Chipmakers given a glimmer of hope
News in brief
Letters to the Editor
If you ask me
Play for tomorrow [toy manufacturing industry]
Lego for life
Falling for technology
Hacking goes pro [engineering security]
Gadget speak
The ascent of smartphone
DIY society [modular electronics]
Head to head [electronics FPGA]
Child's play [learning robotics]
Forklifts under fire [semi-autonomous forklift]
City of the future
Putting the wind up [wind power]
Inner space still expanding [IT storage]
Switching sees the light
The real era of visualisation
Building on a dynasty [manufacturing moulding]
Plants that are green [Toyota's lean manufacturing]
Network of secrets [network security]
Spaghetti me not [wireless connectivity]
The hands-on time manager
Security? What security? [job security]
Events
Creating a scene
The global engineer
Inventor's inbox: Futuretoys
After all: Happy e-smoking
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