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www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 June
The Tracmap company, based in Mosgiel, Otago, develops and sells GPS-based systems for use in farm vehicles such as fertiliser spreading trucks and pesticide sprayers.
Discussion starters:
• Fitness for purpose in an agricultural environment
TV3 News video, 14 June
The increased use of closed circuit television cameras (cctv) in New Zealand has lead to a recent review by the Law Commission.
Discussion starters:
• Nature of Technology: Sociotechnological environments
• Values: data collection and storage issues
TV3 Campbell Live video, 14 June
A Christchurch gaming developer has come up with an all new way to introduce players to the world of gaming. Using locally-developed movement technology, it is levelling the playing field between the very young and the very old.
Discussion starters:
• Gaming technology
• Nature of Technology: interdisciplinary practice
news.bbc.co.uk, 15 June
A solar-powered plane is getting ready to hit the skies once again - this time, at night.
It will be the first ever manned night flight on a plane propelled exclusively by solar energy. Solar Impulse will lift off from an airfield in Switzerland, on a sunny day sometime at the end of June.
It will then fly around, charging the solar cells on the plane's wings, in a bid to generate enough energy for the electric motors to last until dawn.
www.nzherald.co.nz, 15 June
Cellphones look set to replace the supermarket checkout when you do your grocery shopping. With the push of a button you will scan an item with your phone and it will tell you everything you want to know about the product and the company that made it.
And, when you walk out the door your money will automatically be taken from your account.
TV3 Campbell Live video, 16 June
Promoters of a new shoe say reducing the 13,000 injuries reported each year, is as simple as changing how we run.
Discussion starters:
• Product design
TV3 News video, 19 June
With 20% of New Zealand homes now having a heat pump installed corrosion problems may become a serious issue.
Discussion starters:
• Technological products : material properties and fitness for purpose
news.bbc.co.uk, 21 June
The TanDEM-X satellite has blasted into orbit on a mission to acquire the most precise 3D map of the Earth's surface. The German radar spacecraft will fly in formation with an identical platform called TerraSAR-X launched in 2007.
Together, the pair will measure the variation in height across the globe to an accuracy of better than two metres.
Their digital elevation model will have myriad uses, from helping military jets fly ultra low to showing relief workers where an earthquake's damage is worst.
www.nzherald.co.nz, 22 June
Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp, the world's number two contract chip maker, and Japan's Elpida Memory said they will develop cutting-edge 3D technologies together.
Powertech Technology Inc, a Taiwanese company providing testing services, is also joining the project, the three companies said in a statement.
The move comes as electronics firms move to cash in on the popularity of 3D technology, which includes televisions and computers.
web.mit.edu, 22 June
There are two standard systems for determining a prescription for eyeglasses to correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. One is to have the patient look through a large device called a phoropter, fitted with dozens of different lenses that can be swung into place in front of each eye in various combinations, while the patient tries to read a standard eye chart on the wall ahead. The other uses a more expensive system called an aberrometer that shines a laser into the eye and uses an array of tiny lenses to measure its characteristics, with no interaction from the patient.
www.odt.co.nz, 22 June
Government officials are sounding out technology companies about the best way to expand the reach of free-to-air digital television as a Cabinet decision on the shutdown date for analogue TV approaches.
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage last week asked companies in the broadcasting technology industry for their views on the most cost-effective way to extend the country's existing digital terrestrial television (DTT) transmission network.
TV3 News video, 23 June
All three domestic airlines are reviewing their domestic security systems after a 3 News investigation revealed major loopholes in their electronic check-in systems
Discussion starters:
• Technological systems: concept of malfunction
www.nzherald.co.nz, 23 June
A new biennial prize offered through Auckland University's computer science department could raise the profile of open-source development in a country still wedded to Microsoft technologies.
Discussion starters:
• Software innovation
New York Times, 24 June
Synthetic speech, autonomous robots, computers beating the best humans at chess and checkers. As computers grow ever smarter, a look at developments in the field of artificial intelligence.
Discussion starters:
• Machine intelligence
• Voice recognition software
www.nzherald.co.nz, 24 June
British research that found no link between pregnant women's exposure to cellphone tower radio-frequency and early childhood cancer should end public debate on the issue, a New Zealand medical expert says.
Discussion starters:
• Risk factors in a socio-technological environment

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