Category: Engineering

Most of us grew up thinking our fathers knew everything about cars… A recent article in Popular Mechanics outlines the top 10 myths about cars that our dads perpetuated: 1. DAD SAID: “Let the engine idle to warm up on cold days.”

Many people are so egocentric that they tend to believe that mankind can change the orbit of the planets.  For example, during the early stages of the space program, there were folks who believed that the launch of the Saturn V

It’s an example of an inorganic polymer, noted for its many unusual characteristics.  It bounces, it breaks when given a sharp blow, it can flow like a liquid when it is slowly stretched, and it will “melt” into a puddle. 

I wrote previously about desktop versus web applications… or a hybrid of both.  There are definite trends towards providing users with richer clients. Forrester Research has done a usability comparison between Rich Internet apps and HTML apps, in a report

The Read/Write Web site took a survey to identify what readers expect to have the greatest impact in 2007: 1. Online Video / Internet TV – 27% 2. Continued rise of browser-based apps – 22% 3. Mobile Web – 15% 4.

An article in Yahoo Health asks, “Can Snoring Kill You?”   Evidently, persons with sleep apnea (lack of quality sleep from breathing problems) have a higher death rate than the average person, are five times more likely to be in a fatigue-related

I use a web site that streams live video of the various highways around Ohio… I’ve discovered that there is a great web site to access over 30 video and still cameras located around Manhattan island.   This New York web site

If you’re interested in the top new IT products for 2006, check out this article in CRN.

A new scientific study suggests that people who frequently experience positive emotions are less likely to catch colds. Psychologist Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University interviewed 193 healthy adults daily for two weeks and recorded the positive

Popular Mechanics has a new list of technologies (or at least concepts for technologies) that it claims will be big in 2007. From PRAM to BAN and SmartPills to data clouds, it’s a good summary of upcoming and in-process trends.