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A University of Auckland engineering graduate is encouraging New Zealand graduates to dream big after receiving international recognition for his invention. The technology developed by Vinny Jeet enables the humanitarian organisation One Laptop Per Child to communicate with its users via radio broadcasts that can be picked up by laptops.
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Massey University mechatronics professor Olaf Diegel made his dream come true when he created a series of colourful 3D-printed electric guitars with latticed bodies adorned with spiders and butterflies. When he posted images of the prototypes, explaining their origins before launching an online business, musicians and design buffs worldwide were dazzled by the aesthetics and a deluge of inquiries ensued.
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Ship repair, conversion and construction firm Drydocks World has signed a memorandum of understanding with BIG InvestConsult AG, a Swiss company representing Polish firm Deep Ocean Technology which has developed highly innovative designs for half-submerged hotel.
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A state-of-the-art craft was unveiled at this week's Boat Show - an ocean rowing boat which will attempt a record-breaking trans-Tasman crossing early next year. Quite possibly the most sophisticated ocean-rowing boat ever built, it is the first trimaran in the world able to right itself after being capsized.
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A group of intrepid Māori explorers are about to embark on an epic journey - a waka trip to Easter Island, using the stars to guide them. The two waka have been built by hand from seven tonnes of kauri, and have no no pulleys, no big winches, no modern-day navigation equipment, or even cabins.
Can Charlies' honest water eco bottle be recycled? Charlies says it can be and they are here to tell us how. Fake plastic watering bottles? (NZ Herald online article, 04 May 2012)
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Japan will be without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades when one of three reactors at Tomari nuclear plant in the northern island of Hokkaido goes offline for routine maintenance checks. None of the reactors stopped for checkups after last year's March 11 quake and tsunami set off meltdowns at Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has restarted, amid growing public worries about the safety of nuclear technology.
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The Designers Institute of New Zealand supports the government's intention to improve our global competitiveness by increasing investment in R&D and STEM subjects. However, it emphasises that we must also invest in our global design competitiveness to ensure that the products and services we produce benefit from first class design.
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A new era in mobile phone payments has dawned and smartphones look set to become an even more familiar sight on public transport after 2degrees began selling a $299 Android phone that has Snapper's contactless payment technology built in.
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Food makers long have tinkered with their products to appeal to regional tastes, but getting the recipe just right is becoming more important than ever. That's partly because people in emerging nations such as China and India are gaining more of an appetite for American-style on-the-go foods as they work longer hours and have less time to cook. But it's mostly because snack makers increasingly are looking for growth in other parts of the world as sales slow in the US.
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Credit and debit card skimmers are changing their tactics. It's not just ATMs, but Eftpos machines they are targeting, and one retail security expert says the skimmers are focusing on New Zealand because security is weaker here.
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Massey University has been ranked among the best industrial design schools in the world in the international Red Dot Design Awards. Red Dot is a highly competitive global design awards scheme based in Germany and Singapore. Massey has been ranked 12th in the Asia-Pacific region for design concept - the only Australasian design school to be so recognised.
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Finding a parking space can be stressful, never mind the cost to your pocket and the environment as you drive around looking for that precious space. The 'parking patch' is here to help. It brings together wireless sensors and a mobile phone app to steer drivers towards those elusive vacant spots - and allows traffic wardens to track down parking offenders.
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Poking into the sky, the first column of the 100th floor of 1 World Trade Center will bring the tower to a height of 1,271 feet, making it 21 feet higher than the Empire State Building and giving New York a new tallest building. Time lapse video of the construction process.
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A proposed $365 million Marsden Point Refinery expansion will bring six hundred new jobs to Northland. The main platformer at the heart of the plant will be replaced as part of the upgrade, increasing the refiney output and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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