The craze for kyosho jutaku, that distinctly Japanese variant of the micro home, may have started in the thirteenth century, but there’s good reason why jutaku has more recently exploded in popularity outside Japan. These micro houses are often built on unused, “leftover” land —urban infill, in the truest sense of the term. We’re talking [...]
Photo source Thomas Edison electricity and the prolific inventor’s vision of how Distributed Power would rule the world, is more relevant today than ever. Harvesting your own power is already happening and with Distributed Generation considered by pundits a $100 billion opportunity – is a world without a grid the future for some [...]
Has silicon graphics made the pencil redundant for designers and creative minds? Whether you were Leonardo da Vinci, Enzo Ferrari or even the Mad Men, a pencil and some paper had always been the way to download your creative thoughts from your mind, play about with them and share them with other people. Fabriano started [...]
Green with envy: With engine-makers’ revenues potentially totalling $1trillion over the next 20 years, who is leading the design race for greener jet travel? With the aviation industry striving to achieve big reductions in fuel consumption by 2020, who is in pole position? Engineering gets exciting when aero engine titans are next to each other [...]
Why doesn’t my bike have a stepless automatic gearbox? Hydraulic, of course. And a bigger lesson for designers. Sarum Hydraulics are passionate about hydraulics and any application for miniature systems that can do a job better. So why does your bike not have a nifty automatic gearbox that does away with changing gear? A stepless [...]
How the driverless cars hype is quickly going to become a reality. Hollywood loves driverless cars. Sarum rated Minority Report for its glimpse into a driverless future. Even the media loves stories of prototype driverless cars getting lost, going too slowly or simply looking odd. It all provided great entertainment about tech biting off more [...]
How today’s Winter London might have looked quite tame 400 years ago. With some true winter mornings arriving this week in the Medieval Town Square of Salisbury and really freezing weather 80 miles away in London, Sarum are dwelling upon winters in the capital some 400 years ago. Sarum just loves the winter spectacle that [...]
Cutting through to hydraulic cleanliness. With lots of suppliers all pushing their products, it can be easy to lose the plot on hydraulic cleanliness. Is cleanliness an issue? After 30 years, Sarum thinks that dirty hydraulic systems are a menace. Yes, they may well work in a disgusting state for years, but chances are there [...]
For a generation who sat glued to the blockbuster “Towering Inferno”, the world has fallen in love with skyscrapers. The developing world is full of them and globally there are now over a thousand buildings with more than 40 floors. Dubai alone has over 170 buildings in excess of 150 metres high! Skyscrapers in Dubai [...]
Cupertino raises the stakes even higher on consumer gizmo's. "The Consumer Electronics Show (C.E.S) in Las Vegas this week is the gathering place for those who thrive on tech." Sure is, but sometimes big stories get lost in a sea of gizmos. If you are selling millions of devices or gadgets and you need a [...]
