The direct interactions between user and design often seem to dominate the focus when creating a new product. Some designers – specifically those concerned with socially sustainable design in developing areas – are taking a more holistic look at the lives of target users to develop products more likely to make a difference.
Een machine maken waarmee we lekker kunnen kletsen. Dat is een van de ultieme doelen van kunstmatige intelligentie, meldde de BBC deze week.
Je zult maar een chemicaliëntransport- en opslagbedrijf zijn met een vloot van 150 tankers. Dan zijn het zware tijden. Er zijn vaak meer schepen dan vraag naar chemicaliënvervoer. En nu zorgen steeds strengere milieueisen er ook nog voor dat ze in de toekomst op duurdere brandstof moeten varen… of niet?
The new neutron diffractometer PEARL at the Reactor Institute Delft opened today. Seventy guests from the international neutron research community watched the counts come in. “It’s hard to overestimate the variety of applications,” one of them said.
A new smartphone app called Pooductive allows toilet goers to chat anonymously worldwide, for free. Delta asked Marian Loth, PhD researcher on sanitary design and ergonomics at the faculty of Industrial Design, for her appraisal of this development that links the WC with social interaction.
Amid 21st century energy concerns, TU Delft is leading a four-year programme to examine and validate the safety and waste principles of molten salt reactors, a potentially cleaner and safer source of nuclear energy.
The G-SPECT scanner, developed by MILabs, received the Commercial Innovation of the Year award at the 2015 World Molecular Imaging Congress on Hawaii on September 17, 2015.
The experiment that Ronald Hanson and his team performed is regarded as the final nail in the coffin of locality and realism as the basis of physics. Instead, quantum weirdness rules. Their publication is online at arXiv.org.
Speakers at the recent ‘Engineering the Future Olympics’ symposium at the Faculty of Architecture outlined challenges and solutions for creating the huge infrastructures needed to host the world’s largest sporting event.
