Engineers at the Italian aerospace company Avio have developed a breakthrough process for 3D printing light-weight metal blades for jet engine turbines.
The method builds the blades from a titanium powder fused with a beam of electrons accelerated by a 3-kilowatt electron gun.
The gun is 10 times more powerful than laser beams currently used for printing metal parts. This boost in power allows Avio, which is part of GE Aviation, to build blades from layers of powder that are more than four times thicker than those used by laser-powered 3D printers.
HySolarKit est un kit pour convertir un véhicule à moteur classique en un véhicule hybridosolaire. Le système permet de réduire les consommations et les émissions, avec un coût très faible par rapport à l'achat d'un véhicule hybride. Un véhicule ainsi transformé est capable de réduire de 20% la consommation et les émissions dans un usage urbain standard, sans sacrifier les performances, en améliorant même la capacité d'accélération et en maintenant l'autonomie du véhicule traditionnel.
In a Manhattan office, a small team of engineers, marketers, and product designers is plotting the future of medical devices. With hopes of “disrupting” the market, the group is using a limited budget to streamline the development of a new PET/CT scanner while addressing customer concerns over price, performance, and ease of use. “The reason why TurboTax became so popular is because you didn’t have to become an expert in tax regulation,” one person says during a brainstorming session. “TurboTax for oncology!” another shouts.
El BOPV publica hoy el conjunto de las convocatorias de las ayudas a la Economía Social del Departamento de Empleo y Políticas Sociales del Gobierno Vasco.
Los enlaces adjuntos permiten acceder a las diversas convocatorias:
Blink is a truly wireless home security system, it doesn’t even require a cable for power. Blink starts with the Sync Module, which all of the Blink units report to and transmit to the cloud for phone access, alerts, and streaming video. Each of the Blink units offers a discreet, wireless camera with a full year of battery life. Each camera also includes a motion sensor, heat sensor, night vision, and an audio microphone.
About 18 months ago I was in the middle of gathering evidence for my second report on small firms, “Growing your Business”, when I met the chief executive of the Association of Business Schools. At first I could not see its relevance to my report until I idly asked him how many members the association had and he replied 138. I then realised that we had both a problem and an opportunity.
El centro tecnológico vasco Ik4-Ikerlan es una de las entidades que formará parte de la red europea ANTARES, que se dedica a formar investigadores en el ámbito de las estructuras inteligentes y energéticamente eficientes. Esta red, cuyo nombre es el acrónimo de ‘Advanced Training and Research in efficient Smart Structures’, está compuesta por un consorcio de 12 universidades, centros de investigación y empresas que dirigirán las tesis doctorales de 14 investigadores hasta el año 2018.
We often find ourselves engaged with members of large organizations on questions of how to be more innovative and entrepreneurial. In virtually every case we hear something like this:
“I have an idea for a new product (or process, system, program, etc.). I’m not dead certain it can be pulled off, but if it could, it can have a significant impact on the business. It’s not within the day-to-day scope of my job and I certainly don’t want to put myself or the company at significant risk, but it would be a shame if I didn’t try to move the idea forward somehow. How do I do this within a pretty traditional organization?”
It has been nearly nine decades since Sir Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of Penicillin at his Paddington laboratory in 1928, and today well over a hundred different types of antibiotics exist for numerous bacterial infections. A growing concern in modern medicine, however, is the ability of pathogenic bacteria to evolve strategies for overcoming antibiotic treatments. Many antibiotics such as ampicillin and erythromycin, for example, which used to kill off whole bacterial populations with great efficacy, are now capable of much less due to this alarming phenomenon of bacterial tolerance.
