Blog

If you won a Gold Medal at the Olympics up until 1912, you would have received a medal made from solid gold. Olympic medals have a minimum size of a 60mm diameter and a 3mm thickness so, at those minimum sizes, the value of gold in one of those medal…

When I am asked about the concept of electric vehicles, there are two questions that are always the first asked. Range and charge time. If I was discussing an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) with anyone, these two questions are not high on …

I am not sure why major telecommunications companies such as Ericsson and Qualcomm employ engineers with multiple degrees and years of experience. They only have to visit some of the barbeques that I attend and you find the real ‘experts’ in rela…

3D Printing: The future of building?…

Stick with me while I do some back of the envelope maths. Google performs 3.5 billion searches every day. Assume that is one visit to Google per search. Google has country specific domains (google.com.au for Australia for example). Argentina (just pi…

I bought a new red car a couple of years ago. “I can’t believe how many red cars are on the road now,” I remember thinking. Red cars currently make up about eight per cent of new car purchases which, if anything, is slightly down on what it has…

Fairfax Tech Talk Column When it comes to business product development, is it better to be the first to market or be the best on market? If you believe the marketing from one particular potato chip company, the best outcome is to be both. “The Orig…

When John Venn first wrote about the different ways of representing propositions by diagrams in 1880, I am pretty certain that he didn’t have ID proof on social media at the forefront of his mind, but a Venn diagram of the current proposal before g…