Almost every consumer electronic product is manufactured in China or another Asian territory. This is due to cheap labour and extremely long working hours. Factories like ...
November 18, 2016 at 8:50 pm by John WilliamsonFoxconn is the world’s largest manufacturing contract company and produces a huge range of products for leading brands including Apple. They’ve also been ...
May 26, 2016 at 10:00 pm by John Williamson
Donald Trump is a divisive figure who seems to thrive on controversy. Whenever he voices any sort of xenophobic or racist remarks, his popularity increases. While ...
January 19, 2016 at 2:34 am by John Williamson
I recently wrote an article concerning a new technique of using a 3D printer to build up layers upon layers with pre-existing materials to create “glass” based objects. ...
September 21, 2015 at 11:05 am by Christopher Files
A ticking timebomb is in the form of the correct way to dispose electronic waste, the globe is producing unit upon unit of the latest gadget which in turn pumps chemicals and ...
August 31, 2015 at 1:30 pm by Christopher Files
Foxconn, which is Apple’s primary supplier for components, expects to deploy more robots in their factories to help with production in the next three years. While human ...
February 28, 2015 at 1:28 pm by Gabriel Roşu
A new rumour from Digitimes suggests that alongside the Apple Watch, Apple’s latest upgrade to the MacBook Air is due to enter production in early 2015. The report says ...
December 23, 2014 at 2:22 am by Ryan Simmons
In an interesting move, Samsung have announced that they are to spend up to $3 billion on a smartphone manufacturing plant in Vietnam. The new plant will join their existing ...
November 11, 2014 at 2:26 pm by Ryan Simmons
HP are eager to be a big player in the 3D printing business, maybe so they can overcharge for the inks… just kidding. They’re eager to show the world their ...
October 30, 2014 at 2:18 pm by Peter Donnell
3D printing has proven a smash hit, with people using it to create prototype products and a multitude of cool and innovative things. However, they’re not well suited to ...
July 16, 2014 at 8:52 am by Peter Donnell
While it is still a far cry from the augments we see in games such as Dues Ex, German car manufacturer BMW are using 3D printers to augment their car-plant workers. ...
July 4, 2014 at 10:47 am by Peter Donnell
Welcome back to our tour of the InWin factory in Taiwan, we’ve already looked at how InWin create their plastic chassis moulds and metal components in the last two parts ...
June 1, 2014 at 10:24 am by Peter Donnell
Welcome to part two of our InWin factory tour, we’ve already seen how they produce their tooling components and injection moulds to create the plastic components of a ...
June 1, 2014 at 10:08 am by Peter Donnell
We’ve been very fortunate this week, as the eTeknix team were invited along to a special tour of the InWin factory in Taipei, allowing us a first hand look at every ...
June 1, 2014 at 10:04 am by Peter Donnell
Recent reports point to IBM creating a graphene-based circuit that they say performs 10,000 times better than existing options. It was reliable enough that they used it to ...
January 30, 2014 at 11:00 pm by Gabriel Roşu
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