100 years of innovation and inventions: South African vice chancellor reflects on what’s next: Vice Chancellor Professor Zeblon Vilakazi and others in the IBM Lab at the opening of Wits university's Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct. Lauren Mulligan/Wits University We live in a world characterised by inequality, poverty, economic volatility, globalisation, climate change and ambiguity. In …
Machines, inventions and ‘good cities’: a pick of science and tech books: Shutterstock/VMW With the year drawing to a close, many people will be wondering what books they may have missed out on in 2021. For those who prefer a heftier beach read, The Conversation Africa asked several academics to recommend the best science or …
Sir Clive Sinclair: even his failures were prescient inventions: Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the UK’s first mass-market home computer, has died at the age of 81. Pioneer of tiny portable devices, truly affordable computers and novel, electric forms of transportation, he leaves behind what some see as a checkered history of hit-and-miss inventions. But …
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Here’s a Taste of the Weird and Wonderful Inventions at CES 2017: The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is as much about the little guys as it is the technology and automotive behemoths. While the Samsungs and Volkswagens of the world showed off products this week looking to generate billions of dollars in sales, thousands …