Curated articles from various sources.
Any electronic device consists of circuit boards, components and bundles of wire – these are the printed “organs” of the device. Because assembling these items into a product like a phone can be quite a tedious process, new ways of printing electronics in 3D are being developed. Although electronic printing processes such as screen printing, lithography and…
Narconomics = Narcotics + Economics. A term denoted to convey possible management lessons learned from Mexico’s drug lords. For a country with an economy brought to its knees in 2009, it should be surprising to learn that Mexico still houses 11 billionaires. Well, perhaps not too surprising in the light of their thriving drug trade…
Turns out, Europe’s failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs is growing ever more as an additional growth crisis to the already pressing general economic euro crisis. The Economist means that in a country with a culture that’s deeply inhospitable to entrepreneurs, wanting to grow a start-up into a behemoth is quite as counter-cultural as piercings and performance…
Norway is arguably at the forefront of marine technology and innovation. One of the more recent products of Norway’s efforts in this arena is the Far Solitude – the first of a new class of vessels overflowing with novel marine technology that serves to make shipping safer, cleaner, and cheaper too. Created to function as…
Data recording technology devices commonly found in airliners called “black boxes” allow investigators to discover what caused an airliner to crash. Similar recording systems are fitted to some trains, ships and lorries. Now a bill in America’s Congress seeks to make it compulsory for data recorders to be fitted to all cars by 2015. The idea is that…
Recent studies done revealed that people are generally poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that grants the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by external factors. But in a world of quotas and limits, two researchers suspected that it was actually a weakness….
