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Volume 6, Issue 10
November 2011
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1015
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With the passing of a celebrated innovator, who is going to pick up the mantle and 'think different'? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1016
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Engineering news from around the globe. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 8 –8
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1017
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1018
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China has made an unmanned leap into space with the launch of its first orbital laboratory. The Tiangong-1 will allow China to develop and test in preparation for a permanent space station by 2020. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1019
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(3 pages) - Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 18 –18
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1020
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Products that protect US soldiers are helping Qinetiq through the defence downturn. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 19 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1021
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1022
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Pick of the E&T inbox. - Author(s): H. Kyrke-Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 26 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1023
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Absence of a clear transition strategy is undermining the coalition government's commitment to a low-carbon agenda. - Author(s): R. Hanbury-Tenison and P. Bizony
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1001
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This house believes that in a time of collapsing national economies and worldwide austerity measures, investment in space is a bad use of resources. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1002
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The news of Steve Jobs's passing was accorded top-of-the-bulletin status across the media. Heads of State from technocentric western economies raced one another to podiums in order to register their recognition of a man whose products had worked their way so effectively into the public pocket. Jobs's relatively recent emergence as a technology icon has been a modern phenomenon and was not down to his technical achievements, but rather to a long-distilled instinct of what would work, and what experiences the consumers of the world would be eager to embrace. - Author(s): J. Hayes and A. Bodhani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 33 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1003
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The world of Google seems such a fertile place, bursting with creativity in its ever-expanding population ofWeb tools and services. But this simple, colourful, unassuming hemisphere is backed with a murkier side, crawling with troubled, critical users and vexed regulators, legislators and watchdogs. On closer inspection, and for all its brand perfection, Google's corporate remit is difficult to define. Can the two sides be reconciled? Indeed, does Google's world reveal the shape of corporate strategies to come? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 40 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1024
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Our inventors Patrick Andrews and Mark Sheahan share ideas for inventions that would make their own lives easier. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1025
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Mark Harris meets Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft chief technology officer and founder of patent acquisition company Intellectual Ventures, to find out why he is known as the world's biggest patent troll. - Author(s): E. Burrows
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 46 –48
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1004
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Erika Burrows asks: if it looks like a human, acts like a human and talks like a human, how will we know it's a robot? Easter 2011: a set of videos posted on YouTube by Danish scholar, Professor Henrik Scharfe, attracts an audience of more than 4.3 million viewers. The subject of these viral videos was not celebrity nor politician related, instead they showcased the capabilities of a human android, Geminoid DK, built in Scharfe's likeness. "The most popular of the videos is a mechanical test," explains Scharfe, "probably because it has a sense of fun. What people don't realise is that they are not seeing the finished article. They are simply watching a test during the production stages of Geminoid DK which exploits all the facial 'muscles' in one direction and then the other.". - Author(s): E. Burrows
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 50 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1026
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Who knew inventing was such a dangerous occupation? Erika Burrows discovers ten inventors whose big ideas led to their downfall. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1005
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The author finds technological innovation alive and well in *Daejeon, South Korea, despite the underlying tensions, the South has pursued its goal to develop world-class technology in a globally competitive arena. - Author(s): A. Bodhani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1006
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Mobile payment services aim to turn smartphones into handy alternatives to cash or credit cards.They are trying to spearhead the move to a cashless society. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 60 –62
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1007
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Electricity blackouts are predicted to become more frequent as growing demand reduces supply margins, the paper presents planning for shortfalls can lessen the social and economic impact to prolonged electricity shortfalls. The environmental impacts of a prolonged electricity shortfall can also be significant. Faced with mandatory rationing or indiscriminate blackouts caused by load shedding, consumers often invest in expensive on-site electricity generation produced by air-polluting fuels. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 64 –66
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1008
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This paper presents Plantagon's spherical-greenhouse. Architects at Australia-based firm CK Designworks have designed the world's first vertical street, a 35-storey high-rise to be built in Melbourne, in which every sixth floor will have gardens planted with trees growing up to 10m tall. According to project architect Robert Caulfield, 'Crystal Gardens' is the first time that five communal gardens have been attempted in the same high-rise. Purpose-built planter boxes allowing tree roots to grow in the confined 120m2 gardens have been designed while novel structural supports that hold the weight of the soil and trees will be used. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 67 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1009
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Man-made islands, called Green Power Island designed to store energy solve renewable power problems. The Green Power Island is an artificial island that incorporates pumped hydro storage to store energy in seawater. The island encloses a lagoon-like reservoir, which can be emptied using pumps driven by excess power from a nearby wind farm. As power demand rises the seawater is allowed back into the reservoir, driving turbines that generate power. - Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 70 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1010
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Submarine construction is in the waters at Barrow-in-Furness, location of the BAE Systems site that launched the Holland One 110 years ago. But the new Astute class of submarines being built for the Royal Navy has challenged that century-long manufacturing proficiency to the full. At 97m long and displacing 7,400t, the Astute class is certainly impressive, but the Devonshire Dock Hall is more than capable of hosting its manufacture. The 268m-long facility, opened 25 years ago by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, can house two subs and a frigate together, and it remains the hub of the manufacturing operation. - Author(s): H. Wolff
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 74 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1011
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After a high-profile career in engineering and science, Professor Heinz Wolff thinks that technical innovation is only part of the solution to the challenges facing 21st-century society. Professor Heinz Wolff has long been a technology pin-up in the UK, but thinks societal change will shape the 21st century. - Author(s): A. Grogan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 78 –80
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1012
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on America prompted airport security to change beyond recognition. All passengers and their carry-on luggage are now subject to stringent X-ray security checks, which has caused much controversy and inconvenience. The same stringency does not, however, seem to apply to cargo. Only 50 percent of the 250,000t of US commercial cargo is screened, with 1 percent of commercial cargo on passenger planes not being screened at all. Some 60 percent of all cargo flying into the US is flown on passenger planes, with 15 percent of passengers departing US airports on planes containing cargo that has not been completely screened. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 81 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1013
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Electrical signalling has beaten off the challenge from optical communications a number of times in electronic systems, but connecting by light may be about to stage a comeback. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 86 –89
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1014
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Formula One car designers and mechanics now rely on IT-based performance-analysis tools to give their cars a winning edge and make sure that the race to improved performance does not compromise driver and spectator safety. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 90 –91
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1027
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Get smart about note-taking with the latest smartpen, smarter about inside-out umbrellas and watch your TV track you with the latest in high-end technology. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1028
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The physical engineering of the second generation Macbook Air design is as important as the shift to a near fully solid state laptop. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1029
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Bryan Betts looks at National Instruments' Labview 2011 ahead of this year's NIDays conference in London. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 96 –97
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1030
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This month's book reviews turn up a good primer for AI enthusiasts, an overview of politics in the power sector, and a little bit of zero-gravity how's your father. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 98 –99
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1031
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No one did more than Queen Victoria's husband to usher in the age of science, engineering and technology. Nick Smith talks to author Jules Stewart to find out why Prince Albert was so influential. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 100 –100
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1032
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The toilets in German wartime submarines were an engineering marvel, but perhaps too complex for their own good. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 108 –108
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1033
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Jack has his first taste of university life with a comedy duo, a Disney character and an engineering goddess. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 110 –110
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1034
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Our regular collection of irregular engineering news and views - a Halloween special. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, p. 112 –113
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1035
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How the Lunar Module got off the ground. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 10, page: 114 –114
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1036
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A somewhat crook-ed train journey along the world's longest stretch of straight railway track.
Editor's letter
World news
News
The graphic: Chinese Space Station
News
Taking stock
News
Letters to the Editor
Comment: If you ask me
For and against
Profile: Steve Jobs
Google
Inventor's inbox
Profile: Nathan Myhrvold
The birth of a robot race
One2ten
The Korean techno-town [innovation leadership]
Smartphones pay the price
Don't wait for the blackout
High-rise hopes [architecture]
Islands with potential [man-made islands designed to store energy solve renewable power problem]
A touch of class
Interview with Professor Heinz Wolff
American Roulette
Optical inclusions [optical interconnects]
How IT has become F1's extra gear
Gadgets
The Teardown [Macbook Air 2G]
Software reviews
Book reviews
Book interview: Jules Stewart
The eccentric engineer
Jack's blog
E&Tcetera
Classic projects: Apollo Lunar Module (LM)
After all: Darkness and light on the Aussie Indian Pacific Express
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