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Climate Change: With Determination, We can Make a Difference

By Dick Weisinger

The world is shirking it’s responsibility of helping to reverse or at least stop climate change. Climate change threatens to create hotter average temperatures and its consequences of extreme weather, rising seas, and shifting wildlife habitats. Inger Andersen, executive director…

Technology: Smart Fabrics to Keep You Cool

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve been making synthetic fabrics for more than 100 years. Synthetics don’t have the best reputation, but fabrics have been engineered to be light weight, quick drying, and water proof. Rayon was the first synthetic, followed by nylon, and then…

Thought to Speech: Vocalization for those who Can’t Speak

By Dick Weisinger

Technology is being developed to transform the thoughts of people who are unable to speak into synthetic voice. The technology would be useful to people who suffer from diseases like epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Research is being…

Global Navigation Satellite System: Global Positioning Under Attack from Jamming and Spoofing

By Dick Weisinger

GPS (Global Positioning Service) is the major system used in the US for navigation and geographic positioning. GPS is one of the five available Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The other systems include QZSS (Japan), BEIDOU (China), GALILEO (EU) and…

Equipment As A Service: Shifting from a CapEx to OpEx Model

By Dick Weisinger

Equipment as a Service (EaaS) is a business model where the producer of a product, instead of directly selling the product, rents or leases it to customers. It can be thought of as a pay-for-use model. The advantage of a…