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A new baby formula made purely in New Zealand - from the dairy cow to the milk powder and the packaging - is being snapped up in China. Christchurch company Carrickmore has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of orders for Nutrition. Its first shipment leaves next week, and Chinese mothers can't get enough of it.
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A five-year crackdown on crime could see Minority Report-style software used to predict where and when offences will take place.
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Peru's distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world's most ambitious efforts to use digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years into the program, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the more than US$200 million that Peru's government spent.
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The implications of Google Glasses for business One of the most exciting announcements and demos from Google IO 2012 was Project Glass -Google's computerised glasses designed to let wearers use apps, capture images and video, and use the internet and social networks on the move.During the keynote, Google touted two main design goals of Glass: communicating with images, and instant access to a broad range of information. it is in these goals, coupled with the audio communication, that we'll see a dramatic shift in the way that we interact with information, people, and work.
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Friday June 29 was the fifth World Industrial Design Day -inaugurated in 2007 to honour 50 years since the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) was established.
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Blunt Umbrellas started as a design concept on a kitchen table in the UK in 1999 . Kiwi Greig Brebner, who was working part-time in London as an engineer, figured umbrellas could be done better -and today the award-winning NZ company exports to 23 countries.
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Whether you want to generate your own electricity, join the swing back to timber construction or turn on your lights from your phone, intelligent houses are getting ever smarter.
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Nanotechnology is something of a buzzword - it's the science of the very, very small. It has been the basis of some of the great technological leaps of the past two decades and it's a given that it will "power" progress for a long time to come. Along with their counterparts around the world, New Zealand scientists are looking for the next big breakthrough - the next discovery with the potential to change the way we operate.
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With the success of its Shenzhou-9 mission, China may just be repeating the achievements of American and Soviet astronauts made way back in the 1960s and 1970s, but that heritage and the sophistication of modern technology means the Asian nation is on an accelerated development track.
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Researchers have shown off a means to spray-paint batteries onto any surface. Their batteries are made up of five separate layers, each with its own recipe - together measuring just 0.5mm thick. The approach will be of particular interest in industrial applications, as it is compatible with existing spray-painting technology.
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Joanna Woods and Shay Brazier believe they can live without a power bill, by only using the electricity they generate themselves. How will they do it? ... And could we all do the same?
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In November 1992, an amateur inventor called Trevor Baylis submitted his first patent application for a wind-up radio. Designed for people without electricity and too poor to buy batteries, Baylis saw the radio as an affordable way to disseminate health education in areas of Africa devastated by AIDS. It worked, and later models would be used by hundreds of thousands of households across the continent.
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The concept of the electric car as the clean, green alternative to the fossil fuelled vehicles has never really caught on. So how much traction has the concept actually got?
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Personal locator beacons can remove significant amount of the 'search' from search and rescue. Which raises an important question: Given the latest technology that's available, why don't more people take the precaution of carrying an emergency locator beacon when they head into the wilderness?
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Haute couture was once rich fabrics and no expense spared, but many designers now favour cheap knick-knacks bought from market stalls to bring their clothes to life. Plastic toys and broken bicycles have found their way onto the catwalk.
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