Watch the video clip below about a problem in poor countries and how engineering students around the country were given a task to design a solution:
By creating a new technology - incubators made with used car parts - poor countries who have a high rate of premature births with 20% of those babies dying from cold and those that survive have life-long health problems, were able to find a low-cost solution to the problem.
Follow the link to watch a video clip related to military surveillance: Air Force Bugbots
Next, watch this video clip about the Maverick Flying Car at Oshkosh in 2010; transportation that is fast, reliable, and able to access remote areas.
Do you think that something like this would actually sell? What other thoughts do you have about this project? Please comment on this post and add your first and last name at the end of your post.
Lastly, your assignment today is to take a look at Technology Review's 2012 Special Report on 10 Emerging Technologies. Select one article to read and give a short summary of what your article was about. From what you read, create a new post on your personal blog entitled Emerging Technologies and respond to the following questions in paragraph form:
- What inferences/assumptions can be made about the future technology?
- What surprised you the most?
- What are the possibilities for the future in this area?
- Looking at the list from 2009, are there any technologies that were considered "emerging" back then that are now being used?
- Give any other comments you have to offer.
