http://technologywonk.com Technology Integration for Product Development Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:58:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This recession has everyone, and I do mean everyone, looking for answers. I have been harping, as have an increasing number of real pundits, about the role of innovation in facilitating recovery.  The president has been pushing a sustainable, innovative and green technology culture to help fuel the future and ... http://technologywonk.com/2009/reprint-from-my-pdd-column-july-2009/ Dear Congressman Henserling.I am writing to you on Memorial Day, 2009 after spending time at the grave side of Army Spc. Heath Pickard of Palestine, a fatherless young man who went to Frankston High School with three of my sons and spent much of his young life living at our ... http://technologywonk.com/2009/an-open-letter-to-my-congressman-on-memorial-day-2009/ Hello, folks, For the past few months I have been really slammed working at PCDworks (http://pcdworks.com/)  and writing my column for Product Design and Development magazine (http://www.pddnet.com/scripts/ShowPR~RID~23460.asp). I have neglected my TechnologyWonk blog seriously. I plan to remedy this in the very near future. If there is an area of interest ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/i-have-been-out-to-lunch-for-several-months-now/ https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2008/NR-08-06-03.html Every once in a while a piece of research sneaks in that gives a glimmer of hope to an impending crisis, and by the way the above website has a GREAT animation of how this thing works. While we are all mostly worried about the price of fueling up our ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/new-application-of-carbon-nanotubes-may-be-answer-to-fresh-water-crisis/ http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000100&ISSUE=0804&RELTYPE=MIC&PRODCODE=0000000&PRODLETT=EI&CommonCount=0 A Zenit-3SL rocket explodes on its floating launch platform—an incident initally described as an “anomaly”—on January 30th. (credit: Sea Launch) I came across this interesting piece of research about sound and vibrations induced by sounds and while some folks would just blow by it without notice, I could not help but ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/if-it-sounds-like-trouble-it-probably-is/ How did they know? http://www.physorg.com/news126417255.html Research for the cop in all of us! Now it is finally scientifically verified that the cops had it right all along. Coffee and donuts are good for us all, or at least the coffee is good for you if you eat too many donuts. If ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/coffee-and-donuts-as-the-basic-food-group-i-knew-it/ http://www.physorg.com/news125666441.html Well, if we are going to have a hydrogen future, it's either going to be based on fossil fuel in the form of a fuel cell reformer - the part of fuel cell that takes what ever you feed it and strips out the hydrogen- or it going to ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/photosynthesis-the-key-to-the-hydrogen-future/ As a trained brain innovator for now over 50 product innovation brainstorming sessions in the past 15 years, I am amazed at the fumbling that goes on AFTER the session is over. Most innovation sessions end up with hundreds of potentially great product ideas, which are then filtered down ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/a-side-note-on-technology-feasibility-and-the-new-product-development-process/ Settle down in your bunker and get ready for yet another way for civilization as we know it to be wiped out! Tsunamis are most often the result of tectonic activities which produce  earthquakes. But when you start looking around for the really bad actors, Wiki the term "Sturzstrom" ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/past-volcanic-action-long-run-out-earth-slides-and-incompressible-beds-on-my-mind/ Last time in this forum I was wondering about the relationship between inflammation, O (singlet oxygen), aging and death and promised to "'splain it to you" as best I can. Here goes. Singlet oxygen has an unpaired electron. It's like N instead of N2. O instead of O2. These atoms don't ... http://technologywonk.com/2008/more-on-the-incredible-edible-ah-frog-skin/