Jean Balchin • Jun 13, 2017 •
To this day, I vividly recall my tragic attempts in product design class at high school. Our teacher, underpaid and underprepared, threw caution to the wind and let us do as we pleased. The only instructions we were given was that we had to make something that could be used as a night light. To this end, I set about creating a … Read More
Peter Griffin • May 27, 2016 •
New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr was last night presented with the prestigious Crafoord Prize, basically the equivalent of a Nobel Prize, at a ceremony in Sweden. Kerr, who is a sprightly 82, shared the prize with Stanford University theoretical astrophysicist Professor Roger Blandford. The prize for astronomy and mathematics (it rotates through certain disciplines year to year) comes with … Read More
Aaron Small • Jul 24, 2009 •
I saw this article on Stuff.co.nz yesterday about Lumiblades, developed by Philips. These new lighting devices will one day replace the methods of lighting we currently use, as they are incredibly energy efficient. As a result, they can be lumped into ... Read More