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The Pringle's chips shape is an engineering masterpiece

It is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Its design took 2 years and required the use of supercomputers

Advantages of the chips' saddle shape: 
(1) it is self-centering, hence easy to stack up, 
(2) it is impossible to predict how it will break up when you eat it, increasing the crunchy feeling and satisfaction

#innovation

When your commute becomes a source of renewable energy!

Credit: Iberdrola & WEF
#innovation #techforgood #cleantech

Tum Ulit brilliantly illustrates the power of words through this cute, yet thought-provoking comic!

The phrase “a picture’s worth a thousand words” certainly holds up, when it comes to the work of Thai artist Tum Natakorn Ulit. His comics have captured hearts on Instagram, for both their sweet illustrative style and their powerful, sometimes heavy messages.

Link to his insta(@tumnulit) for more such awesome illustrations in the comments!

His below comic strip delivers a thought-provoking and intimate look depicting just how much what we say, for good or for ill, matters.

#life #career #experience #inspiration #motivation

Excellent illustration of what a PhD should be.

PhD is different from school and university studies where you mostly study the available knowledge and understand the basics concepts.

In a PhD program, you work on a finding solution for a certain research problem in a certain research area using scientific methods.

The basic work in PhD is to provide better solutions for a research problem.

This will result in increasing the existing human knowledge.

This work will be published in a scientific conference or journals, so others can build on it after that.

Although it may seem that your contribution is small, however with collective research this will increase human knowledge, and this research effort is what enables a few breakthrough moments.

Credits to Matthew Might for this amazing illustration, and Dr Nick Fine for this deck adaptation.

#science #phd #academic #research #education

Better to move trees than to cut them! This machine manufactured by Dutchman Industries makes a lot of sense

Credit: Dutchman Industries
#innovation #techforgood #green #sustainability

The mesmerizing #3D map of the undersea #cables connecting the globe

This is how we are all connected via an extensive undersea fiber optic cable network. 426 active submarine cables in the world span on more than 807,000 miles.

Source: Tyler Morgan-Wall, leveraging GeoJSON and data from TeleGeography 
#datavisualization #connectivity #analytics #data

Robotic rescue buoy - an amazing lifesaving #Innovation!

This lifesaving robotic buoy can save a drowning person without endangering the rescuer.

It is a self-propelled, remotely controllable aquatic rescue robot that weighs 13kg, navigates at a top speed of 15km/h and can operate for 30 minute under any conditions.

#engineering #robotics #technology #ai #automation

Creative #engineering

The power of human creativity demonstrated by this mesmerizing machine solution compilation. Which one do you prefer?

#innovation #automation #creativity #machine
Credit: Amused