3
Boring no more
Posted by HuiHui
on
9:09 PM
If you think engineering is for the nerd and the geek, think again! Ever since the dawn of the century, engineering news has been as entertaining and amusing as watching a circus. Below are a few highlights from EETimes (one of the zillion technology website found in the websphere) just this week alone.
1) No iPods for North Korea
To punish Kim Jong Il for testing nuclear missiles, the Bush administration wants to keep iPods out of the hands of the North Korean leader and his supporters.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600556
2) Emerging technology sees through clothing
Security in airports and other sensitive areas may get a huge boost, thanks to a technology under development that is straight out of science fiction, said to be capable of looking through clothing to detect weapons and other dangerous items. But privacy advocates—and shy people—may have cause for alarm.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
KXTMA4OJ2KNVSQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN;?articleID=196500051
3) Sony wants to send sounds through your body
Sony has found a way to transmit radio signals through a wearer's body to earphones that convert the signals back to sound. The system would use the body as a capacitor. The body system could carry 48 kilobytes of data per second.
http://eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
CF1ALLA2BXZPMQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=196513863
4) Xerox invents self-erasing, re-usable paper
Because many e-mails and documents are printed out for brief viewing and then soon discarded or recycled, Xerox invented printing technology that creates images that last only a day.
http://www.pldesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196513873
1) No iPods for North Korea
To punish Kim Jong Il for testing nuclear missiles, the Bush administration wants to keep iPods out of the hands of the North Korean leader and his supporters.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600556
2) Emerging technology sees through clothing
Security in airports and other sensitive areas may get a huge boost, thanks to a technology under development that is straight out of science fiction, said to be capable of looking through clothing to detect weapons and other dangerous items. But privacy advocates—and shy people—may have cause for alarm.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
KXTMA4OJ2KNVSQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN;?articleID=196500051
3) Sony wants to send sounds through your body
Sony has found a way to transmit radio signals through a wearer's body to earphones that convert the signals back to sound. The system would use the body as a capacitor. The body system could carry 48 kilobytes of data per second.
http://eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
CF1ALLA2BXZPMQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=196513863
4) Xerox invents self-erasing, re-usable paper
Because many e-mails and documents are printed out for brief viewing and then soon discarded or recycled, Xerox invented printing technology that creates images that last only a day.
http://www.pldesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196513873
