Love this video on what Nanotechnology can do for us. Discovery does really good videos on how we can engineer better lives!
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Or “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
As theoretical physicist, philosopher and author, Albert Einstein said: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
But ideas will remain as ideas if they are stuck in your head.
So how do you translate your ideas into words, pictures or something that can be explained simply enough for people to understand? I agree that engineering ideas can be complicated and complex. But that doesn’t give you the excuse: “Oh it’s an engineering term. You wouldn’t understand.”
Read the following carefully – they will help you to get your point across, pitch your ideas to your friends, clients and reduce the number of politely bewildered faces whenever you try to convey your ideas.
It creates a reference to your idea. And give a simple and catchy too! Articulating ideas also means reaching out to your readers or listeners in the best way that attracts their attention!
Everybody loves lists. A simple Pro/Cons list will help you when you are expressing your ideas. It will also help you in your thought process on how well formed your idea is.
Not everybody knows your fancy engineering lingo or the fabulous formulas that you are so used to working with. This also doubles up as a way of testing if you know and understand your idea well enough to translate it into a simpler way. (Yes, back to Einstein’s quote again)
Follow these three steps when articulating your idea in a proposal or a presentation or whatever. But if you find these all too long winded – just remember K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Stupid!
By Ong Yizhen
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“Nano-Tex Resist spills fabric is used as the surface of this incredibly striking display. Liquids just bead and roll off this regular fabric.”
My only beef… the commentary’s in Japanese… T.T
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Nanomachines are supposed to be the holy grail of materials. After all, these smaller-than-molecule sized machines could assemble any structure by “atomic-scale "pick and place": a set of nanoscale pincers would pick individual atoms from their environment and place them where they should go.”
And when we say any structure, we mean any structure – from planes to bread to virus-zapping cells. That’s the beauty of Nanomachines and Nanotechnology.
Instead of repeating what’s out there, we’ve put together a digest on Nanomachines and how they can be used in the future:
“In the Nanotechnology world, you start with atoms and build things up. Giving you incredible control over the material.”
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We wanna know if you’ve submitted your Create2011 ideas. Y’know, a Future Mobility idea that might make the world a better place.
‘Cause we’ve extended our deadline to 9 August, midnight (National Day! Hooray!)
‘Cause we’ve been getting emails asking for a deadline extension!
(*(#^!@(#(*@&#(!@ Why so many whys?)
It’s common test season, it’s school daze; it’s perfecting your ideas. We hear you -- that’s why we’re extending the deadline to 9 August, midnight to submit your winning idea for bragging rights.
Not sure what we mean? Have a read our Letters from Munich!
PS: In other news, see happened when we took our AR badge outdoors!
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We’re enamoured by nano materials and rightly so. But here’s a guy who’s exhorting us to look back to ceramics (e.g. porcelain, glazes) for the future. What say you?
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I'm the editor of UCreateChange. And I started this blog with the intention of putting up my past weekly roundups 'cause it's a shame they're simply disappearing into people's inboxes. Anyways, if you've a question on engineering, drop me a line at creators.of.tomorrow@gmail.com!
