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Otago Polytechnic, 24 September
Sophie Hardy graduated from Otago Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Design (Fashion) in 2009. She became an international finalist at the Mittelmoda Fashion Awards in Italy, and then won the lifestyle section of Australia's FashionTV awards. Now, while she is working to turn these achievements into an ongoing career, she is offering students an insight into life as an emerging fashion designer by letting them follow her on Facebook.
Discussion starters:
• Textiles technology: Tertiary study options and career development
New York Times online, 25 September
Promoters of Masdar, a city under construction near Abu Dhabi, say that it will be the world's first carbon-neutral city. It will be home to a research institute focused on renewable energy and sustainability, and eventually, if all goes as planned, to various clean-technology companies, and to a projected 45,000 residents and another 45,000 commuters.Discussion starters
Discussion starters:
• Environmental design: new city planning; computer-aided modellin
• Design for sustainability: new energy technology; automated transportation networks
TVNZ News, 25 September
Members of an American family are building an energy-efficient home to the passive-house standard, which relies on insulation, sunlight and an airtight exterior.
Discussion starters:
• Energy efficient housing design – the passive-building standard; use of modeling software.
NY Times, 27 September
A Christchurch company that designs and makes instruments used by orthopaedic surgeons, and exports more than 95 per cent of its products, cites the freedom to be creative in design as one of the reasons for its success.
Discussion starters:
• Product development: interpreting market needs; user-centric design; flexible manufacturing; regulatory compliance.
Stuff.co.nz, 27 September
Wellington games developer Sidhe has brewed up another title for major United States games publisher Activision, but the faint-hearted need not apply.
Blood Drive – for PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 – is a mix of Mad Max and the zombie apocalypse genres. Television show contestants in "motorised death steeds of steel" battle each other and "hordes of revolting flesh eaters in an all-out fight to the death".
Stuff.co.nz, 28 September
From duck-hunting caps with solar-powered lights to a machine that makes sushi in one simple step, the work of more than 30 Kiwi inventors will be on display at Porirua's Pataka Museum.
Discussion starters:
• Nature of Technology: the process of invention.
TVNZ Close Up video, 28 September
From duck-hunting caps with solar-powered lights to a machine that makes sushi in one simple step, the work of more than 30 Kiwi inventors will be on display at Porirua's Pataka Museum.
Discussion starters:
• Nature of Technology: the process of invention.
TVNZ Business News video, 29 September
Canary Enterprises is dairy exporter with a difference - supplying value-added specialty NZ butter products mainly to airlines hotels and restaurants in 14 markets worldwide
Discussion starters:
• Processing technology: value added processing; Customisation to suit specific end user needs; packaging technology;
Stuff.co.nz, 30 September
The amount of time children spend reading books for enjoyment decreases as they use cell phones and other mobile technology, but e-books might just bring them back to literature, according to a recent report released.
Discussion starters:
• Digital media: sociocultural influences
NZ Herald, 30 September
Wave Energy Technology New Zealand (Wet NZ) will use a $2million US Government grant to build a quarter-scale version of its device, which uses waves to generate electricity, in the US state of Oregon. Discussion starters
Discussion starters:
• Technological Systems: Sustainable energy technologies; scale-up
• Technological modelling: prototype testing.
NZ Trade and Enterprise - Success Stories, October
New Zealand designers are noted for their fresh approach and several kiwi businesses are exporting that talent with significant success. Five businesses are finalists in the 2010 New Zealand International Business Awards category for best use of design.
Discussion starters:
• Embedding design principles across a business
• Understanding end-user needs
NZ Trade and Enterprise online, October
The US Government estimates that on average 20 percent of consumer products sold in China are counterfeit. There are laws to protect and enforce IP rights, but China's businesspeople do not have a long tradition of intellectual property compliance. There can also be inconsistencies of court proceedings on IP. These legal differences and the risk of IP breaches mean that a New Zealand company entering the market needs a well researched and executed strategy to protect its IP.
Discussion starters:
• Intellectual property issues: protecting copyright, trademarks and patents; understanding the risks and dealing with IP violations
TV3 News video, 1 October
Mattel® (NZ) today announced a voluntary recall of 10 products distributed in New Zealand during the past seven years. The recall is a precautionary measure because of potential safety issues. There have been no reports of injuries in New Zealand. Retailers have been asked to remove affected product from stores. Customers are asked to discontinue using the products immediately and contact Mattel® (NZ) for a repair kit, a refund or a replacement product.
Discussion starters:
• Characteristics of Technological Outcomes: quality assurance; safety standards; fitness for purpose.
Otago Daily Times, 4 October
A small Dunedin business is in a spin after its Thinair personal wind turbine and complementary business system won the Otago round of the 2010 New Zealand CleanTech Challenge.
Powerhouse Wind Ltd co-director Bill Currie said the turbine could be attached to any household to generate electricity, and was an exciting step towards creating a mix of energy appliances for "the future zero-energy home".
NZ Herald, 4 October
Dozens of entrepreneurs and space engineers will gather on the Isle of Man tomorrow to finalise plans for one of the world's most technologically ambitious and financially lucrative competitions: the Lunar X prize.
The US$20 million ($27 million) award, which is being backed by Google, will be given to the first company that builds a robot rover craft, lands it safely on the moon, and directs it on a journey of more than 500m across the lunar surface. In doing so, the competition organisers hope to galvanise the exploration of the moon by opening it up to private industry. A deadline of 2012 has been set for all attempts to win the full prize.

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