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Modern cruising isn't the Love Boat

Before you take a cruise ship vacation, there are a few caveats you may wish to consider.

December 19, 2012 by Jason Perlow

I, Technology: 7 reasons why schools need 3D printers

It is no great disclosure to say I am a governor of a local secondary school, but perhaps I should be honest about my own love of new technology, electronics and gadgetry of all kinds. As a post-modern, dyed in the wool geek, I do sometimes - okay, often - have a habit of getting excited about such shiny things, looking for uses where perhaps none exist.

October 12, 2011 by Jon Collins

Flapping 'nano' aircraft takes flight

Engineers at Aeronvironment (AV) of Monrovia, California, have demonstrated the world's first successful flight of the smallest ever self-powered, rudderless, aircraft with flapping wings.The nano air vehicle (NAV) is modeled after a large insect or small bird, such as a hummingbird.

August 13, 2009 by Chris Jablonski

HP's Hogan glories in growth

The biggest issue facing Tom Hogan, the senior vice president of HP’s software division, could well be avoiding smugness. Not that Hogan seems to be a smug man or that HP is a smug company.

December 9, 2008 by Colin Barker

Uncommon Sense: Energy worries

Our oil reserves are being depleted and yet we have come up with no acceptable replacement. So where will we get energy in the future? And could IT have a role in the solution?

July 29, 2004 by Peter Cochrane

It's the technology, stupid

As the economy tries to work past an economic downturn, budget-conscious companies should think twice before skimping on technology tools if they want to keep their employees motivated.

May 8, 2002 by David Stein

Intel passes Moblin on to the Linux Foundation

On Thursday, the non-profit Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it was going to host the Moblin project which aims to develop mobile Linux-based applications.Moblin was a project under development by Intel which has effectively handed control over to the Linux Foundation.

April 3, 2009 by Colin Barker

Slug slime to hexagonal frying pans: How design inspiration can come from unexpected places

You don't need an iconic design guru like Jony Ive to come up with all the design ideas, but you do need to be prepared to take a new look at things and make the most of the materials available.

July 23, 2019 by Mary Branscombe

Ideas to help you stay fit and healthy while social distancing and self-isolating

Social distancing or self-isolating continues with no end in sight. Here are some tips for staying fit and healthy -- both in mind and body -- while we wait for the coronavirus pandemic to come to an end. (Updated April 2020 with reader's suggestions)

April 9, 2020 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Simulating planes flying at Mach 6

Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, such as the X-51A aircraft being built by Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, should start to fly in 2009. And if everything goes according to plan, missiles flying at Mach 6 could be deployed by 2015. But designing such planes is not so easy. This is why Purdue University engineers have developed the only wind tunnel capable of running quietly at 'hypersonic' speeds. The Purdue engineers say that this 'quiet wind tunnel operation is critical for collecting data to show precisely how air flows over a vehicle's surface in flight' at hypersonic speeds. But read more...

January 4, 2008 by Roland Piquepaille