Mitsubishi comes clean about fuel efficiency data minipulation
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
Hot off the press today is another revelation from a car manufacturer that has admitted to altering the truth in terms of carbon emissions data. Japanese car company, Mitsubishi, has said that the data of 625,000 vehicles was manipulated. In a statement released by Mitsubishi, they admitted: In connection...Read More
Experts highlight jobs in danger of robot takeover
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
Do you have a job that you are certain cannot be done by a robot in the very near future? Do you have skills that can survive the move to automated systems? Hold on to it. Experts are warning that robots will take over most jobs within 30 years. There...Read More
Pee-power: Researchers develop microbial fuel cell using urine
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
And now for something completely different. Bear Grylls was right all along. Urine really does hold some sort of power. Researchers at the University of Bath and the Queen Mary University of London want to generate energy using...wait for it...urine. Allegedly, this would be able to provide electricity to rural...Read More
Inexpensive zinc-manganese batteries could be safer than lithium-ion
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
Another day, another battery. Lately, all the battery news out there is about lithium-ion and how it is going to be our saving grace in the world of saving energy and producing clean energy in the world of today. However, lithium-ion production isn't as safe as most people think, so...Read More
Engineers in Japan develop electronic skin that displays information like a smartphone
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
Engineers in Japan are working with what they are calling 'electronic skin' that would be able to bind to your body and display information. There has been some chatter about electronic skins that can repair themselves but this is one of the first working prototypes that actually displays information on...Read More
Engineers in Japan develop electronic skin that displays information like a smartphone
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
Engineers in Japan are working with what they are calling 'electronic skin' that would be able to bind to your body and display information. There has been some chatter about electronic skins that can repair themselves but this is one of the first working prototypes that actually displays information on...Read More
How much the Internet of Things industry will make in the next five years and which engineers will profit
Dr Steve Mackay19 April, 2016
There are endless possibilities in the Internet of Things industry for engineers. All you have to do is head on to jobs listing websites to see how many software engineers are in demand in the Internet of Things industry. You could see yourself working for Google or Microsoft or Intel...Read More
How much the Internet of Things industry will make in the next five years and which engineers will profit
Dr Steve Mackay19 April, 2016
There are endless possibilities in the Internet of Things industry for engineers. All you have to do is head on to jobs listing websites to see how many software engineers are in demand in the Internet of Things industry. You could see yourself working for Google or Microsoft or Intel...Read More
Battle bot from Harvard shows future of gun-wielding robots
Dr Steve Mackay19 April, 2016
The robo-apocalypse is almost here if a recently designed robot grows even stronger. A team of engineers from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have built a bot that would go up against the best of the best battle bots and then just simply shoot them...Read More
Collaborative contribution to energy storage could power UK railways
Dr Steve Mackay19 April, 2016
The equivalent of US$2.2 million in funding has been given to an initiative at the University of Sheffield that pertains to energy storage. The energy storage solution being funded could lead to sustainable energy for the railway business. The project is called the TransEnergy project and is collaborating with National Rail, a partnership...Read More