Bain forecasted eight Trillion-Dollar Growth Trends to 2020. (44 page pdf) Macro trend: The next billion consumers. The rising wealth of emerging economies will continue to bring a broader range of consumption goods to huge numbers of new consumers. More of them will cross the critical annual household income threshold of $5,000, planting them in …
The use of graphene in telecommunications could dramatically accelerate internet speeds by up to a hundred times. Ordinarily optical switches respond at rate of a few picoseconds – around a trillionth of a second. Through this study physicists have observed the response rate of an optical switch using ‘few layer graphene’ to be around one …
The new and improved bunker buster, has adjusted fuses to maximize its burrowing power, upgraded guidance systems to improve its precision and high-tech equipment intended to allow it to evade Iranian air defenses in order to reach and destroy the Fordow nuclear enrichment complex, which is buried under a mountain near the Iranian city of …
A “magnetic hose” consisting of concentric tubes of superconducting and ferromagnetic materials can transmit magnetic fields. A tube consisting of 20 concentric rings that is about ten times longer than it is wide, should transmit about 90 per cent of a magnetic field at one end to the other. Indeed, a tube of just 2 …