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
First of all, carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Short version of the story, they are favorable materials in nanotechnology, ...
December 27, 2013 at 11:56 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Graphene is the cool kid in the world of materials, it’s incredibly strong and conductive, making it perfect for a wide range of applications, and especially good for ...
December 13, 2013 at 9:32 am by Peter Donnell
Anyone who has spent some time in the computer industry will be familiar with Moore’s law, which states that the number of transistors on a computer chips doubles ever ...
December 8, 2013 at 10:59 am by Peter Donnell
Apple are shifting many of their contracts from Foxconn to Pegatron and while we all know that Foxconn don’t exactly have a clean record for how they treat their staff, ...
July 29, 2013 at 4:24 pm by Peter Donnell
