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• Calibre shoots into the big time
  Stuff.co.nz article, 17 October
  Tucked down a driveway in the Wellington suburb of Newtown, alongside a bowling club and the SPCA, two high school mates are quietly building a niche but thriving manufacturing business. They are the business and design brains behind Calibre Equipment, which makes machines for grading and testing timber.
  Discussion starters:
  • Nature of Technology: sociocultural influences - regulatory compliance; economic gains
  • Marketing strategies: international licencing
• Good news for cellphone users
  Stuff.co.nz article, 21 October
  In the biggest study so far, Danish researchers have found no evidence of any link between cellphones and cancer, suggesting that billions of people who are rarely more than a few inches from their phones have no special health concerns.
  Discussion starter:
  • Consumer safety: product evaluation; testing and trialling
• Air capture technology can be ready by 2018 say UK engineers
  TVNZ News article, 27 October
  Geo-engineering technology to absorb climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere can be rolled out by 2018 according to the UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The institution is demonstrating the air capture technology, resembling a giant fly swat, which is a thousand times more effective at absorbing carbon dioxide from the air than a tree of the same size.
  Discussion starter:
  • Global warming: geo-engineering solutions
• Simulated Mars mission 'lands' back on Earth
  BBC online news article, 4 November
  Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged from isolation. The Mars500 project, undertaken at a Moscow institute, was intended to find out how the human mind and body would cope on a long-duration spaceflight.
  Discussion starters:
  • Nature of Technology: socio-technological environments
  • Space Technology: simulation techniques
• Solar car ready for its road trip
  NZ Herald online news article, 20 November
  The country's first road-legal, solar-powered car will be rolled out next week. The one-seater commuter vehicle which can hit speeds of up to 100km/h begins a 1700km trip to Bluff, Southland, from Auckland Domain on Thursday morning.
  Discussion starter:
  • Technological Modelling: prototype development and testing
• Qubic breaks with packaging tradition
  Idealog Daily Bacon article, 12 December
  An Auckland store is embracing the 'recycle and reuse' philosophy, fitting out its space with a range of everyday materials that have been reused in new ways. The approach to 'reusing' reminds consumers that even the simple things seen in a fresh way can be objects of delight.
  Discussion starter:
  • Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: flexible approach to packaging; fitness for purpose
• China's completely recycled Christmas tree
  nzherald.co.nz online article, 22 December
  Staff at a hotel in China created a Christmas tree from 20-thousand used plastic water bottles. They did it to show concern for the environment and encourage recycling
  Discussion starter:
  • Characteristics of Technology Outcomes: fitness for purpose in its broadest sense