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Patent of the Month – Piezoelectric-Based Solar Cells
28/08/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
Patent of the month this month takes us to a duo of inventors at the University of South Florida. US9,911,540 was granted on 6 March… an apparently good day for inventions since we had half a dozen good … Read More
Best of the Month – Skin In The Game
15/08/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
When Nassim Nicholas Taleb releases a new book, its unlikely there will be anything else arriving on the market that will be able to compete for our Best Of The Month slot. And, true to form, his new … Read More
Best of the Month – Win Bigly
11/07/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
I tend to have a soft spot for books that polarise readers. Especially in these days of every book, record or movie seems to receive a meaningless four-star review. If I can believe Scott Adams, Win Bigly and … Read More
Patent of the Month – Anisotropic Metamaterials
01/07/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
Our patent of the month this month takes us to the University of Texas in one of my favourite cities, Austin. US9,893,432 was granted to a pair of inventors on February 13. I have to admit it nearly … Read More
Best of the Month – The New Polymath
15/06/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
A Polymath the Greek word for Renaissance Man is one who excels in many disciplines, a lot like the #-shaped person profile we discussed in last month’s ezine. This book is one of the sparks behind that article. … Read More
Patent of the Month – Nanowire Motor
08/06/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
We delve down into the micro-scale world for our patent of the month this month, and another lovely looking patent from the University of California, this time in San Diego. US 9,698,708 was granted on Independence Day. The … Read More
Best of The Month – Moral Tribes
20/05/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
At over 350 pages long, this book doesn’t give the immediate impression of being an easy read. The chapter headings don’t do anything to alter that perspective: there’s a lot of moral philosophy, evolution theory and brain physiology … Read More
Patent of the Month – Target Neutralization
13/05/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
I love obvious. Sometimes a solution can look so obvious, you have doubts that it is real. Then you notice that the owner is Lockheed, so you realise, hmm, maybe there’s something interesting happening here. The solution in … Read More
Best of the Month – Scale
22/04/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
If 2017 is our year of ‘first principle’s, here’s a terrific contribution to the story. The new book of Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist, comes with a mouthful of a subtitle that suggests he has unlocked the secrets … Read More
Patent of the Month – ThermoAcoustic Engine
30/03/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
Well, it’s never going to win prizes for readability, but patent of the month this month is nevertheless an elegant evolution of the thermoacoustic engine. US9,777,951 was granted to a quartet of inventors at Tokai University in Japan … Read More
Patent of the Month – Monocentric Lens
18/02/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
If I was a betting man, I’d say that this month’s patent of the month had the smell of TRIZ about it. US9,860,443 was granted to a trio of inventors at the University of California. Two of them … Read More
Patent of the Month – Smartphone Detection Of Vehicle Maneuvers
04/02/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
There’s an awful lot of talk these days about autonomous vehicles. A lot of it is naïve. We won’t all be driving around in autonomous vehicles in the next five years – or even ten – because there … Read More
Best of the Month – The Patterning Instinct
28/01/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
Seeing as some of us are heading in to the holiday season, and therefore, in theory at least, have a bit more time available to get stuck into a really big book, I thought I’d recommend a 442 … Read More
Patent of the Month – Sol Gels
12/01/2018 | Editor
Darrell Mann
Aerogels. Long touted as one of the ‘holy grail’ technologies, aerogels or sol-gels have never really made the transition to a successful commercialization. On the plus side, the properties of the materials as thermal insulators are unparalleled. … Read More