Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016
All the World’s a . . . Game It has been suggested that US Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “999 Plan” may have come from SimCity where it is a default formula for running a SimCity…
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What Caused The Bangladesh Building To Collapse Killing Over 800?
Sudden Restart of Huge Generators & Thousands of Sewing Machines After a Brief Power Outage Likely Precipitated Collapse Following the April 24th eight story factory building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh that has killed over 800…
Engineers Vying for $250,000 Sikorsky Prize, Unclaimed for 30 years
In 1983 the American Helicopter Society put up a $250,000 award to go to the first group that could build a helicopter capable of hovering for one minute, reach a height of 9.8 ft. (3m)…
Australian High-Speed Rail to Cost $118 billion, Will Take Decades to Complete
Australia has been toying with the idea of building a high-speed rail network for over 20 years but relatively cheap airline rates, good old automobiles and an existing but slow train system pushed off a…
The $300 House: Not Charity, Innovation!
Some believe home ownership is a key to a feeling of personal security and some call it “empowering the poor”. In the developed world housing prices and the financing of home loans seem to be…
Largest Power Generating Hydroelectric Dams in the World
According to IEEE Spectrum energy from water makes up about one-fifth of the world’s electricity or about 900 gigawatts; the trend will continue due to a large number of powerful rivers and hydro’s low cost…
Epic Engineering Failures Can Lead to Massive Loss of Life
Failure is a part of life and serves as a “teachable moment” for those who are open to learning. Human history is full of failures, sometimes very tragic as is evident in the following examples…
Ten Ways to Transform Cities through Placemaking & Public Spaces
In 2011, UN-HABITAT and Project for Public Spaces (PPS) signed a 5-year cooperative agreement to aspire to raise international awareness of the importance of public space in cities, to foster a lively exchange of ideas…
World’s Largest Canal Will Bring Water to Parched Northern Chinese Cities by 2018
IndustryTap has written about the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, China’s Three Gorges Dam, and China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) project and its planned extension to Europe as a new Silk Road. Now China is breaking ground on…
Shedding Light on the Sahara Forest Project
A new Kickstarter campaign “Green Deserts — The Saltwater Revolution” got underway last month to raise $35,000 to fund a new documentary produced and directed by Per Liebeck and his colleagues at Copenhagen Film Company…
