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Health and appiness
The Economist reports: Those pouring money into health-related mobile gadgets and apps believe they can work the miracle of making health care both better and cheaper. From this perspective, happiness is equated to “appiness”, meaning the opportunities created by combining health and technological applications. The promise of technologically-altered healthcare systems could pave the way to…
Print me a phone
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…
What is the True Cost of Outsourcing?
People are naturally seduced by a “deal”. We gravitate to signs in stores and on billboards that proclaim, 50% off” or “Buy-one Get-one”. We like to think that we are paying far less for something that we have a right to – that somehow we got the “better” of our opponent. We take a smug…
Plastic Prices: Pretty Pricey Polymer
The phrase cheap and nasty may applicable to a much of today’s mass produced and mass consumed materials; however, plastic is decidedly no longer one of them. Polypropylene, a versatile polymer, has become increasingly expensive of late, and there is no reprieve in sight. In fact, over the past 2 years, the pricey plastic has…
Business and Bureaucracy: Snipping off the Shackles
Nigeria’s large population and oil reserves see it well placed for international business. However, instead of being inundated with international business interest, misgovernment, rampant corruption and dismal infrastructure have been found to kill off any appeal the country had. In 2003, the World Bank has begun publishing a “Doing Business” survey, comparing countries in terms…
The Outliers Inn; Bangers and Mash
Topic: Antlerboy and JP welcome the first-ever, all male and exclusively British guest roster. It’s a veritible sausage fest, except its more like Bangers. Come give a listen as we mash it up (see what I did there?). The episode starts with Antlerboy not being his usual joyful self, some would say “hacked-off”, “fed up”, or…