Recent New Yorker magazine featured Article “Soft in the Middle” attracts my attention: “Nokia has nearly twenty times Apple’s market share, but Apple makes as much profit as all nokia phones’ profit combined. I am not an Apple’s Frenzy, but I am truly admired of Apple’s achievements. Apple sells User Experience. To most consumers, it [...]
Cleantech industries have been researching ways to improve effectiveness, efficiency and practicality in all kinds of alternative energy sources. While most of the ideas are not going anywhere, the recent three craziest ideas being reported in wind, solar and biofuels field have been giving an extra boost to most of the “hopeless” industrialist. January is [...]
Innovation is strictly required to make the computer and electronic devices run faster, cheaper and offers extra functionalities or features for daily usage. For example, making a electronic device flexible will provide more rooms for authentic beautification, branding, and style creation, as well as to meet the demand for ease and convenience, besides attaching them [...]
Written by Eric Ng Tears of wine is a phenomenon identified by physicist James Thompsonn in 1855. This effect was later name after an Italian Physicist Carlo Marangoni, who studied this phenomenon in his thesis. This effect refers to the mass transfer along an interface due to the gradient of surface tension and the tears [...]
Written by kadeck2 On 28 July 2009, I attended a lecture by Prof Boediono in Shangri-La hotel Singapore. He was the invited speaker by NTU-RSIS. The lecture was mainly on economics and political issue between Indonessia and Singapore. Since this blog is about nature, science and technology, I believe in the fact that Economic is one [...]
Nissan Leaf, a 100% electric zero-emission automobile Aug 3, 2009 Written by Koffee999 Last weekend, Nissan announced a 100% electric zero-emission automobile called Leaf. It is powered by a lithium ion batteries and can be charged to full capacity using a home wall plug within 8 hours. Further, Nissan forecasts there will be dedicated power [...]
Aug 4, 2009 Written by koffee999 Michael Graetzel, world eminent chemist from Switzerland, was presenting in a workshop organised by the Swissnex Singapore. Swissnex is an information, coordination and networking platform of the Embassy of Switzerland bridging knowledge and competencies in science, education, art and innovation between Switzerland, Singapore and South-East Asia [1]. Professor Graetzel [...]
Aug 8, 2009 Written by koffee999 Tim Harper, a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, consultant, presented the keynote speech at the SIMTech Annual Manufacturing Forum (AFM) on July 22, 2009. He is well known for co-authoring a review report that consolidated all aspect of early nanotechnology research work and has been widely cited. It was a [...]
The Earth’s Shortage Aug 14, 2009 Written by Koffee999 Bundanoon, a southern city in Australia, had became the first city on earth to ban the sale of bottled water recently. Environmentalist applauded the move. This unprecedented green act could catalyze similar move around the world. In Singapore, there have been calls for consumers to reduce [...]
I vaguely remember the hype of carbon nano tube (CNT) few years back. It was highly praised as the next materials that would be much stronger than steel, while at the same time much lighter than steel. Not stopping there, it has a tunable electrical properties too. Adjusting its chirality (the way we curl it), [...]