Happy Friday, folks! This week’s roundup of interesting engineering technology news articles includes a few cool videos – a computer simulation of how foamy bubbles pop and the other of a steer-by-wire car – and a slideshow of 22 people you probably didn’t know were engineers.

Oh, and here’s a bonus feature this week — With the premiere of Star Trek: Into Darkness (I plan to visit my local theater this weekend, by the way), I felt it was only appropriate to re-visit a blog we wrote last year on Trek tech.

In last year’s blog, we didn’t really address teleportation, but given the technological progress we’ve seen at ANSYS in the last 12 months (working with Astrobotic to design “Lander” and other cutting-edge space technology) it certainly doesn’t seem far off now. However, it might mean that when James T. Kirk is born in the 22nd century, his Enterprise might be an antique!

Anywho, enjoy this week’s top 5!

• Airbus Rolls Out New A350 XWB
• Take a Look Inside the First Steer-by-Wire Car
• Physics Simulation Explains How Foamy Bubbles Pop
• 22 More People You Didn’t Know Were Engineers
• Teen Invents Concussion Detection Prototype for Car Accidents

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Happy Friday, folks! This week, we look at interesting engineering technology articles ranging from the first braille smartphone to the costs of the Cloud.

Enjoy!

• The Two Most Important Words For Young Girls: Engineering and Technology
• World’s First Braille Smartphone in Development
• Exoskeletons, Lasers, and Jet Packs: How to Be a Real-Life Iron Man
• Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Powered Flight
• The Costs of the Cloud

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Happy Friday, folks! This week, we look at interesting engineering technology news articles around solar powered planes and how simulation is being used to predict tornadoes.

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• Underwater Robot Can Search for Missing Black Boxes
• Smart-City Technology Harvests Energy From Footsteps
• Sun-Powered Plane Completes California Test Flight
• Revolutionizing Tornado Prediction
• Top-paying Jobs are in Engineering

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Happy Friday, folks!  This week’s round up of interesting engineering technology news articles includes lots of engineering content (fancy that!). Everything from engineering creativity to the technology behind the newest commercial coffee maker — if you can even call it that.

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• Engineering Coffee: Experiencing the Alpha Dominche Steampunk
• Engineering Creativity Peaks in Kindergarten
• Battery Breakthrough Offers 30 Times More Power, Charges 1,000 Times Faster
• Engineering Matters More than Ever
• $9.18 Million Funding Available for Fluids Dynamics Program

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Happy Friday, folks! This week we look at interesting engineering technology articles from Desktop Engineering and Wired and, in honor of National Robotics Week, a cool robot that mimics the flight of a dragonfly.

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• The London Array – Good Use for Bad Weather
  
• Student Built Car Gets 3,587 MPG in Competition
• Wanted: Clever Medical Sims
• A New Space Race, Fueled by Simulation
• Festo’s Dragonfly Robot Flies, Hovers & Glides

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Happy Friday, folks! This week, we’ll look at interesting engineering technology articles that examine how physics is being applied outside of simulation for entertainment and a look back at the engineering feat that was the first portable telephone.

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• Scientist Circus Performers Make Physics Fun
• Chip Suppliers Target Vehicle Complexity
• CFD: Shaping the Medical World
• Power/Performance Bits: Daylight Cooling
• First Portable Telephone Call Made 40 Years Ago Today

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Happy Friday, folks!  With the Spring holiday being celebrated in many countries today, some of us are out of the office, but I didn’t want to skip bringing you the top 5 interesting engineering technology news articles I found this week. Check out how new technology can help engineer the perfect baseball swing (just in time for opening day!) and read about an all-electric car you never have to plug in.

Enjoy!

• This Ear-Canal Scanner Lets You 3-D Print the Inside of Your Head
• Engineers develop nanofoams for better body armor
• Nvidia R&D Chief Sketches Road to Chip Stacks
• The All-Electric Car You Never Plug In
• New Technology Could Engineer the Perfect Baseball Swing

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