All the stories tagged with engineering

Sky City Set To Be World’s Tallest Prefab Building

05/21/2013, The long awakened sleeping dragon that we all know as China (when China sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold) is certainly on a warpath to be number 1, and it won’t be long before the world’s most [...]

Icarus revisited

01/30/2012, Humans must have looked up at the birds of yore, and wished that they, too, could one day traverse the skies. Fast forward to the 21st century and you have all sorts of machinations and contraptions that can ferry a [...]

Smart paint reinforces structures

01/30/2012, We have Smart TVs, smartphones, smart windows, smart cars, just what other things can we cram in a “brain” and call it smart as well? Here’s an idea – how about smart paint? Researchers from Scotland are working on a [...]

Microsoft Kinect works well with the Source engine

03/10/2011, The Microsoft Kinect is probably one of the most exciting game controllers ever invented and we see a new way to use it almost every week. One of the latest ways to make use of the Kinect controller is to [...]

Rust sensor on bridges could help save lives

04/22/2010, Rust damage could prove to be a silent killer for many a bridge, which is why experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg, Germany, might have just stumbled upon a potential lifesaver in the [...]