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Wisair to demonstrate wireless USB camera phone at 3GSM

February 9, 2007 Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB chipset solutions provider, Wisair , has announced it will be demonstrating the use of Wireless USB in c

Good Thinking

The 2007 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

February 15, 2007 If there’s an absolutely golden imprimatur for the person-most-likely-to-succeed, it’s the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize . Jerome H. Lemelson

Aircraft

AeroVironment Aqua Puma UAV completes Royal Australian Navy Sea trials

February 9, 2007 AeroVironment 's Aqua Puma small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) has successfully completed sea trials for the Royal Australian Navy to explo

Games

Perfect score in Wii Sports: Bowling

February 12, 2007 No doubt many of our readers lucky enough to own a Nintendo Wii have witnessed a few killer streaks on Wii Sports: Bowling, however none will

Automotive

FLUX wins Peugeot P.L.E.A.S.E. Design Competition

February 15, 2007 Driven by the desire to design a car that would give an enjoyable experience to each of its occupants, Mihai Panaitescu, a Romanian design st

Aircraft

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor wins Collier Trophy

February 10, 2007 The Lockheed Martin-led F-22 Raptor aircraft team is the recipient of the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) 2006 Robert J. Collier Troph

In terms of setting the global scientific agenda and stimulating innovation, nothing seems to work quite as well as a clearly defined challenge and a big fat prize. Throughout history, such prizes have consistently proven to be the most effective method of fast forwarding development of enabling technologies, opening new vistas of human endeavour and solving society's key problems.

Good Thinking

The use of special prizes to fuel global innovation

February 13, 2007 Two heads are better than one. Six billion are even better. In solving big problems, you need a lot of brain power and the opportunity now e

Aircraft

US Air Force invites RFP for tanker replacement

February 14, 2007 With the U.S. Air Force officially releasing a request for proposal for a replacement tanker aircraft, the competition is now preparing for ba

Military

New breech-loading NLOS mortar fires first round

April 13, 2007 The long-awaited Future Combat Systems (FCS) Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Mortar Firing Platform has had its first outing, successfully firing its f

Automotive

Nissan and NEC form new company to mass produce lithium-ion batteries for the global automotive community

April 16, 2007 The evolution towards cleaner powertrains will see the proliferation of a wider mix of electric-powered vehicles including hybrids, plug-in hybri

Dockwise's new Yacht Express carrier is launched.

Marine

Dockwise debuts the world's biggest purpose-built yacht carrier

'The majority of yachts do not have the range to reach many of the world's inviting cruising areas and international playgrounds,' reads the company's vision st

Automotive

Nissan to test Intelligent Transport System in Japan using cell phones

April 18, 2007 We’ve written before about Intelligent Transportation Systems in general and in particular, Nissan’s ongoing development and trials of Int

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