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• The need for a 'Palace of Thinking'?
  NZI Business video, 14 May
  Edward de Bono contends that we developed a thinking culture concerned with finding the truth, and that we have never created a thinking culture for adding value.
  Discussion starters:
  • Creative thinking: risk taking to move forward
• 'World Famous' soft drink battle to have day in court
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 14 May
  Paeroa man doesn't want Coca-Cola to trademark 'Kiwi' phrase
  The battle between a Paeroa businessman and international drinks giant Coca-Cola is heading to the High Court.
  Tony Coombe is trying to stop the New Zealand arm of Coca-Cola Amatil trademarking the phrase "World Famous in New Zealand" but suffered a setback last month when an Intellectual Property Office commissioner found in favour of Coca-Cola, saying registration of the phrase was not illegal and the trademark could proceed.
• Sports stars paid to endorse 'magic' wristband
  TV3 Campbell Live video, 17 May
  The 'Power Band' - depending on how you look at it, it's either snake oil or a magic device that gives you strength and balance. It's a small rubber bracelet with a silver disc in it.
  You may have seen rugby league star Benji Marshall wearing one - he's one of many top sports people being paid to endorse it.
  Discussion starters:
  • Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: evaluation in terms of fitness for purpose
• Sharp banks on 3D for mobile, TV
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 18 May
  TOKYO - Sharp is banking on the growing popularity of 3D technology to show off its display panel strengths to keep growth going for the Japanese electronics maker, its president said yesterday.
  Sharp will start mass-producing a high-definition 3D camera for mobile devices this fiscal year through March 2011, which will allow people to take 3D photos and 3D video on their smart phones, other cell phones and digital cameras to watch on 3D TVs in their living rooms, Sharp President Mikio Katayama said.
• Sealegs success
  NZI Business video, 19 May
  Over the past six years, an Auckland-based business has grown its innovative amphibious boat-building enterprise from initial proof-of-concept, through production prototyping to a stage of profitability – all in a period of recession.
  Discussion starters:
  • Technological Innovation
  • Growing an enterprise
• Man-made DNA
  TV3 News video, 21 May
  A US geneticist and his team have produced a living cell powered by man-made DNA in what may be one of the most important breakthroughs of our time. As a result, organisms are now possible that would never have been possible in nature.
  Discussion starters:
  • Nature of Technology: Bio-ethics
• US court rejects Microsoft patent appeal
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 25 May
  The US Supreme Court has turned down Microsoft's appeal of a jury verdict that it infringed on Paris-based company's patent.
  The justices said that they will not intervene in Microsoft's legal fight with French commuications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent. The disputed patent covers a method of entering information into fields on a computer screen without using a keyboard.
• Treehouse project turns heads overseas
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 26 May
  The architecture firm which designed the Yellow Treehouse north of Auckland has been approached to do other similar structures.
  Peter Eising of Pacific Environments, which won a national award from the Institute of Architects this month, said his firm owned the treehouse copyright. It cost about $600,000 to build, he said, and he is confident it can be done again.
• e-book service now live
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 28 May
  Readers looking for a copy of a hot new bestseller now have the option of turning digital rather than paper pages after the launch of Whitcoulls' e-book service.
• Copyright is not for jokes, says top author
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 29 May
  An award-winning children's author has defended his book against charges of plagiarism, saying there is no copyright on a joke.
  Craig Smith won the Children's Choice Award at the NZ Post Children's Book Awards less than two weeks ago for his book The Wonky Donkey.
  Mr Smith says he adapted the book from a children's song he wrote in 2005, based on a joke he heard from friends.
• They're still into it
  Food NZ magazine, page 23, 01 June
  Three of the students who participated in the NZIFST / CREST Student Product Development Challenge last year have chosen to continue PD projects for their NCEA Level 3 food technology acheivement standards this year.
• Top 500 Supercomputers
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 June
  Seven ultra-powerful computers from New Zealand made the latest Top 500 list of supercomputers with list of supercomputers with Weta Digital taking six of the spots in the list.
  Discussion starters:
  • Alternative Supercomputer powers
  • Performance specifications
• Taiwan firms display colour e-readers
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 June
  Taiwanese electronics firms displayed a slew of e-readers at an industry show this week, with one maker unveiling a lightweight model that can display a full magazine page in colour.
  The colour model - developed by Delta Electronics Inc. and expected to go on sale by December - stood out among a number of monochrome e-readers at the Computex Show in Taiwan.
• 'Anti-grooming' software can detect paedophiles
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 June
  Scientists have developed "anti-grooming" software which can tell young people if they are chatting to an adult posing as a child on the internet.
  Trials among pupils at a secondary school have shown it to be remarkably effective in helping them spot other internet users' real ages.
• Mad genius' Mentos and Coke-powered car actually works
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 June
  BUCKFIELD, Maine - The guys who became an online sensation by creating geysers from soda and Mentos candies have discovered it's not just entertainment. It can propel vehicles, as well.
  A contraption created by Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Maine using a bike and a trailer is powered by piston mechanism using hundreds of pieces of Mentos candy and Coke Zero.