Articles tagged ‘Inventors’.

Weekend read: Tapping the sheltermaker gene
Architect and sheltermaker Peter Cowman
By Andrew McKenna ‘Okay I live in this world, what way am I living?’ This is a question Irish architect and ‘sheltermaker’ Pet...
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Hybrid electric bike
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M55: the beast hybrid electric bike In the hybrid bicycle, a sensor monitored drive system automatically optimizes the power input of the motor relat...
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Holiday reading: What’s in a bag of beans?
By Andrew McKenna Published 6 July 2010 There’s a great story behind Castlemaine’s Coffee Basics. It involves Turkish sieges, pastry chefs to ...
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‘These guys are trying to visualise the universe’
Mark Guglielmetti, seriously pondering the complexities of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and the floods from Hurricane Katrina
By Andrew McKenna Mark Guglielmetti lectures at Monash University in multimedia and digital art. In November, after he was nominated by his faculty, ...
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Architecture and the meaning of life
‘House design offers immense scope for making positive change in our lives. If we ask ourselves the right questions about how we want to live an...
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3D printing
Urbee designed by Kor Ecologic in Canada
There are printers that can build up solid objects from a computer (digital) model, an evolution of the rapid prototyping machines that produce plasti...
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Design on Sunday: Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion Car
Richard Buckminster Fuller with his Dymaxion Car
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller pub...
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Getting the most from your power hamster
Ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker, more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today, according to Stanford U...
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What’s in a bag of beans?
By Andrew McKenna There’s a great story behind Castlemaine’s Coffee Basics. It involves Turkish sieges, pastry chefs to the Crown, Armenian sp...
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Castlemaine Independent’s great!
‘Castlemaine Independent’s great! I made it my homepage!’ (A quote like that couldn’t be let go. Arabella wins ... I don’t know, a free subscription? Any suggestions?
Castlemaine Independent’s great!...
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