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Listen to audio reports from our editors covering a wide range of new technologies and trends.


What’s the future of environmental technology? Pam Gordon, president of Technology Forecasters Inc. and author of Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment talks about the design-for-environment timeline, past, present and future. 15:14

Design for Environment: Past, Present and Future

What’s the future of environmental technology? Pam Gordon, president of Technology Forecasters Inc. and author of Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment talks about the design-for-environment timeline, past, present and future. 15:14

Posted: Jan 24, 2008 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
Researchers at the University of Washington recently performed tests on contact lenses featuring embedded circuitry. In this podcast, UW assistant professor in electrical engineering and researcher Babak Parvis talks about the lenses, the tests and what the next step is for the future.

Digital Contact Lenses Pass Test

Researchers at the University of Washington recently performed tests on contact lenses featuring embedded circuitry. In this podcast, UW assistant professor in electrical engineering and researcher Babak Parvis talks about the lenses, the tests and what the next step is for the future.

Posted: Jan 24, 2008 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
Recent Virginia Tech graduate Michael Porter tested surfboards using strain gauges for his senior design project. In this podcast, Porter discusses his methods for testing, his decision to do so and the results of his research. 8:20

Testing Surfboards with Strain Gauges and Mike Porter

Recent Virginia Tech graduate Michael Porter tested surfboards using strain gauges for his senior design project. In this podcast, Porter discusses his methods for testing, his decision to do so and the results of his research. 8:20

Posted: Jan 22, 2008 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
OLPC President of Software and Content Walter Bender talks about Intel ’s decision to withdraw from the affordable laptop program and where OLPC stands in light of this news. 4:37

Why Intel is No Longer Aligned with OLPC

OLPC President of Software and Content Walter Bender talks about Intel’s decision to withdraw from the affordable laptop program and where OLPC stands in light of this news. 4:37

Posted: Jan 8, 2008 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
By shifting from 2D to 3D design tools, Westport Shipyard has charted a course towards a production-style environment that has reduced customer delivery schedules from five years to 18 months, cut reliance on skilled labor and shortened overall development time. 8:04

Yacht Maker Sets Sail with 3D CAD

By shifting from 2D to 3D design tools, Westport Shipyard has charted a course towards a production-style environment that has reduced customer delivery schedules from five years to 18 months, cut reliance on skilled labor and shortened overall development time. 8:04

Posted: Jan 10, 2008 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
Hear clothing expert Mitch Driggers describe new materials combinations that will protect American combat soldiers in Iraq from fires caused by improvised explosive devices. 10:41

Synthetics Are Booted as Combat Materials

Hear clothing expert Mitch Driggers describe new materials combinations that will protect American combat soldiers in Iraq from fires caused by improvised explosive devices. 10:41

Posted: Dec 10, 2007 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
3M research chief Larry Wendling discusses 3M’s philosophy about green engineering. 2:47

3M's Green Engineering Philosophy

3M research chief Larry Wendling discusses 3M’s philosophy about green engineering. 2:47

Posted: Nov 9, 2007 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
Under a DARPA contract, DEKA Research and Development  is producing a robotic prosthetic arm for amputee soldiers recovering from war-related injuries. Tom Faska, program manager for DEKA’s development of the arm, discusses its progress and future implementation. 10:50

DEKA Produces Robotic Prosthetic Arm for Amputee Soldiers

Under a DARPA contract, DEKA Research and Development is producing a robotic prosthetic arm for amputee soldiers recovering from war-related injuries. Tom Faska, program manager for DEKA’s development of the arm, discusses its progress and future implementation. 10:50

Posted: Dec 10, 2007 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
Vehicle positioning systems that combine GPS with inertial sensors and wheel encoders have emerged as a key enabling technology in the DARPA Urban Challenge . Ten teams including the top two finishers made use of a positioning and orientation system from Applanix Corp. Louis Nastro, Applanix's director of land products, explains how these systems have evolved to give positioning accuracies down to just a few centimeters. 7:32

Navigating DARPA's Urban Challenge

Vehicle positioning systems that combine GPS with inertial sensors and wheel encoders have emerged as a key enabling technology in the DARPA Urban Challenge. Ten teams including the top two finishers made use of a positioning and orientation system from Applanix Corp. Louis Nastro, Applanix's director of land products, explains how these systems have evolved to give positioning accuracies down to just a few centimeters. 7:32

Posted: Dec 10, 2007 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
Mark Bryden, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University , gives his take on how immersive virtual reality technology is changing the way products are designed in both the military and mainstream engineering. 8:56

Virtual Reality: The New Weapon In Product Design

Mark Bryden, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, gives his take on how immersive virtual reality technology is changing the way products are designed in both the military and mainstream engineering. 8:56

Posted: Dec 10, 2007 | Listen Now | Download MP3 | | Subscribe Now and never miss an episode
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