The 5G network to power the Internet of Things coming soon
Dr Steve Mackay3 May, 2016
It was just the other day when tech leaders all converged on Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress in February. The hot topic was the inevitable Internet of Things and what kind of internet connections the world is going to have to have to accommodate it. The word of caution...Read More
The factory of the future is here with the Industrial Internet of Things
Dr Steve Mackay21 April, 2016
FANUC Corp. is a Japanese company that announced that it has created a network that will connect robots over IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) that will set the bar for other factories of the future to aim for. The new solution for factories by FANUC will ensure that robots stay...Read More
U.S. senate secures future of energy storage and liquefied natural gas
Dr Steve Mackay21 April, 2016
News from the United States confirms The Senate has passed a bill that will see the country's power grid modernized and also have an effect on liquefied natural gas exports. The bill will see security measures put in place that would protect the U.S.'s power grid from weather interference and...Read More
Total focuses on renewable energy as fossil fuels dip to all time low
Dr Steve Mackay20 April, 2016
In an effort to roll with the ever-changing punches that come with working with renewable energy sources and the likes, the French oil and gas global company, Total, has announced a new division that will focus on gas, renewables, and power. From the 1st of September the new division will...Read More
Small factory engineers get task of building bobsled for Jamaicans
Dr Steve Mackay18 April, 2016
An engineering career might take you many places. Places that you never thought you would ever find yourself when you started. This rang true for engineers in Tokyo, who found themselves working with the Jamaican Olympic bobsledding team. Ota Ward is the company involved with the team building a model...Read More
The most sustainable building in the world crowned
Dr Steve Mackay12 April, 2016
The most sustainable building in the world has been crowned. Who decides these kinds of things, you ask? The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREAAM) has said an office building in Haelen, in the Netherlands, has won the award and scored 99.94 percent on their rankings. Now you can change...Read More
Will autonomous cars solve the global accident problem? Expert says no
Dr Steve Mackay12 April, 2016
Another day, another concern for autonomous cars. At the end of the day, the policy makers of the world are the ones who are going to be allowing autonomous cars to take to the streets globally, and the fight is heating up. Dr. Ian Noy, a policy maker in the...Read More
SpaceX successfully lands Falcon 9 on barge in the sea and delivers inflatable room to ISS
Dr Steve Mackay11 April, 2016
It was just the other day we reported on SpaceX's mission to deliver inflatable rooms to the International Space Station. The mission held, even more, significance because of SpaceX's constant mission to land a spacecraft after it had launched it. The Falcon 9 - the rocket in question - took...Read More
Unauthorized pyrotechnic engineering goes wrong in India
Dr Steve Mackay11 April, 2016
Pyrotechnic engineering is an important job and also a risky one due to the health and safety measures that must be taken to ensure that pyrotechnics do not put humans at direct risk of being harmed. Mike Tockstein is a pyrotechnician with his M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He...Read More
WiFi that searches for you
Dr Steve Mackay6 April, 2016
Self-aware WiFi. You read that right. A WiFi system that instead of being searched for, does the searching and connecting to a WiFi enabled device. That is the future of WiFi according to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). They say that they have developed software called Chronos...Read More