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Welcome to the January edition of hardware roundup! This month, there have been ups and downs in aerospace, 3D printing, and in the environment.

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行业News

  • 阿迪达斯推出了它Futurecraft 4d.running shoe to the public. The shoe has a3D印刷单组分中底that utilizes a digital light synthesis (DLS) technique, in collaboration with Carbon. + Brooks is working with HP on custom running shoes via a foot scannerto optimize how much polyurethane is injected into the shoe’s sole。[通过财富]
  • Moonshots很难，特别是谷歌的2000万美元的月球Xprize对月球比赛，哪个closed this month, a decade after its launch, without a winner。[通过科学美国人]
  • 100米高的空气净化塔in northern China has been able to improve the air quality on severely polluted days by 15% and requires very little power in order to run. [Via SCMP]
  • Unfortunately, January also brought layoffs in the hardware industry. Fictiv friendeero laid off 20 percent员工;Sphero失去了四分之一的员工;and键入机器关闭其门。但是，智能头盔Skully is back from the dead。

硬件知识

  • Kitty Hawk和Google X的创始人的首席执行官塞巴斯蒂安·苏格兰，已经开始了nano-degree program in flying and autonomous cars关于Udacity（他是主席和联合创始人），他的毕业生“将立即有资格工作，而塑造这种令人难以置信的领域。”[通过Udacity.]
  • Component obsolescence management is a crucial part of designing a product;工程师必须保证所使用的任何组件都可以用于产品的寿命。Pascal Lang提供一些提示。[通过供应框架]
  • 科学家发现了欧洲人plant-hopping insect发行使用机械相互作用齿轮to synchronize the rapid jumping movements of its legs, the first example of a natural cog mechanism with an observable function. [通过Cam.ac.uk.]
  • 阅读托马斯爱迪生如何发明了留声机，通过绘制他对电报和电话的了解，记录的声音并再次播放它们。[通过GE]
  • Green energy sources still requirelarge amounts of finite resources，特别是金属如铜，锂和硅。剑桥屋创建了一个关于加油绿色革命的原材料的信息图表。+明天的超级材料：他们的属性和用途。

Events

社区

对于对工程的热爱

英格兰维南的海因斯工厂, is the largest baked bean factory in the world and produces over three million cans of baked beans each day.

Until next month!

Fin，在虚构的硬件福音师