Technology

1719 Stradivari Viola Is To Be Sold By Bid: Reserve is $45 Million Dollars

News Analysis: A 1719 Stradivari Viola Is To Be Sold By Bid: Reserve is $45 Million Dollars for one of only two know to exist privately. Allegedly only ten of his complete Violas exist today.

Antonio Stradivari knew Instrumental Construction as a Master. Tonal quality of his instruments are said to be without peers.

It is interesting to note that today, in 2014, with all of the Computers, Intelligentsia (just ask them), and Advanced Machinery in existence today, mere Equivalency to a 1719 Stradivari has not been achieved.

Perhaps some Products are Designed and Manufactured by Sheer Genius which are so Revolutionary, for the Benefit of Society, that even the “Masters of the Universe” (in the Business World) do not have the Mental Faculties sufficient to Appreciate nor Replicate those Creations.

So goes Commerce, Science and Technology.

Reality.

Reference: http://tinyurl.com/jwbul47

For Many People, Iterations Of Science/Technology Careers Have High Prestige Values

News Analysis: For Many People, Iterations Of Science/Technology Careers Have High Prestige Values (as they want their Children to become Doctors, Engineers, Scientists and the like). It appears that the Social Sciences are getting ‘Short shrift’ as well as is “Banking” as careers for their off-spring.

If any Country hopes to becomes ‘Strong’ in the most generic sense of the word, it must attempt to have its Citizenry excel in Mathematics and Science; for that represents our Ever-Present View: “Tomorrow is Today, Today is Yesterday”.

Reality.

Reference: http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-doctors-perceived-as-most-respected-profession-1000927018

☆ “Quantum Mechanics” Assists Physical Therapists And Others Remotely

News Analysis: The “Breakthrough Device” invented by a Japanese Researcher allows others in ‘Real Time’ to Remotely Control ‘small’ Precise Therapeutic Movements, This, while engaging in Manipulation of Muscles and Tendons. Resistance Levels being encountered by various tissues are immediately recognized by the Remote Operator. Kinesiologists can use this equipment to evaluate Patients remotely if needed.

If one considers where Remote Precision Movements and Countervailing Resistance may occur, the Invention has innumerable uses: Surgeons could use the Equipment to perform Remote Operations on patients using General Practitioners to provide immediate ‘Operating Room’ guidance;

Another example, would be  using this system for Explosive Device Dis-assembly,  by Law Enforcement Personnel World-Wide. An operator, using an Iteration of this device could disable an Improvised Explosive Devise without injury to himself or others; Precision Electronic Assemblies could be manufactured remotely with such a tool.

Investors with Foresight merely have to consider a new Technology and then evaluate “Who Currently Has Problems That This Technology Can Solve”. From there the steps are easy.

Consult with those persons with ‘Real World’ Technical Inventive and Marketing Experience for Best Results.

Reference: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/23/national/wi-fi-device-relays-force-in-real-time/#.Urg7NViA1dg

Science Evolves By Virtue of Its Refutation Regimen

News Analysis: Science Evolves By Virtue Of Its Refutation Regimen as its Practitioners seek the Technical Truth. A Scientific Theory about some subject is proposed, thereafter, it is extensively Examined for Flaws. The ‘Examiners’ may be the Proposer’s Peers or the Public-At-Large in some cases. As such, the Beauty of Science is its Inherent Principle of Refutability. The Basic Procedure ‘Simplified’ is: Propose Something, Test The Ideation Properly, Refute or Validate It; Establish How And Where the Proposal Can Be Employed. If the Proposal is determined to be ‘Void’, it will be ‘Shelved’ by ‘Mainstream Science’; but may be re-examined later.

Science helps Man’s Intellect to Improve; Perhaps some day it will do the same towards Improvement of Man’s Behavior to his Fellow-Man.

Reference: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/371803-10-scientific-blunders-that-could-shake-your-faith-in-science/

Older Russian Buildings and Homes are Energy Wastrels

News Analysis:  Older Russian Buildings And Homes Are Energy Wastrels which consume up to Double the Energy of their European Counterparts. Relying over the last 30 years on World War II Type fiberglass products, which are more Cosmetic than Functional, unfortunately, vast Energy Losses are common.

The Severe Russian Weather’s Effects can be greatly reduced by installing Mega-Temp™ Insulation in New Buildings and Residential Complexes. Having been used in Russian Mining Trucks for years, Mega-Temp™ Insulation performs in Weather Extremes. The Frigid Temperatures of Oymyakon, Siberia, for example,  which have reached -71.2 C ‘-96.2 F’ are not too cold for Mega-Temp™ Insulation. It does not freeze in Liquid Nitrogen ‘LN2’ at −195.8 C  ‘-320.4 F’. Merely Spray On three very light layers of this product dries to an operational thinness of one millimeter ‘.03937″‘.

The Speed of Installation of this Technology is remarkable. For example, as an illustration from another Applicable Industry, a Boeing 747 could be Insulated in ONE DAY. Another interesting aspect is the blowing wind will not damage Mega-Temp™ Insulation where fiberglass batting would be devastated.

The Billions of dollars spent in Russia Yearly, to keep the people warm, could be greatly reduced by using the Mega-Temp™ Insulation Technology through out its  16,377,742 km2 ‘6,323,482 mi2‘ of territory. The Desired Development of the Russian Far East in particular needs the proven Mega-Temp™ Insulation Technology for the Comfort and Safety of its residents. Reality.

Reference: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/business/article/490160.html

Chinese Yuan Quickly Becoming an International Currency

News Analysis: Chinese Yuan Quickly Becoming An International Currency bodes well for other Nations of the World: It gives those Countries an additional Financial Choice. As Small Examples: a Government can engage in Arbitrage of its own currency against the U.S. Dollar or the European Euro. In  doing so, the value of its Currency Reserves may be enhanced; Privately,  Corporations around the World may find it more opportune to pay for Goods and/or Services with the Yuan; Businesses in China may find More International Customers for their Goods and Services.

One may assume that China realizes that the Profligate Debt of the United States [Currently $17 Trillion+ and Growing] will have a Long-Term Effect of reducing the value of the Dollars it holds.

No Permanent and Workable Solution for the Timely Repayment of  the ‘Mount Everest’ of Debt, has been decided by the American Government. So, the Financial Debt Avalanche Grows in both Size and Complexity. Its further Anticipated Borrowing will merely Compound the Problem. If Natural Calamities occur, such as Hurricanes ‘Hugo’ or more recently ‘Sandy’, then More Debt Will Occur. Even to the present, the U.S. Federal Government HAS NOT fully paid for the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy. Additionally, if another War were to occur, a Colossal Debt Increase will be realized. Inordinate Spending by “Washington” MUST STOP.

A Fundamental Attribute on the “Income-Side” of the Financial Ledger is that Debt is Partially Reduced by  Income Growth. As against other Nations, America has fewer Unique Goods it can sell  them. In part, this is because Washington’s Leaders with their Trade Agreements did not realize a Simple Economic Fact of Life: “A Successful  Country sells its Products Not the Technologies to Produce those Products”. Once the Technologies are Transferred and  Revealed, the Customer Countries merely duplicate the End-Products [and sell them at a Lesser Price]! Thereafter, the Short-Sightedness of the Initial Technology Countries continues to “Bite-Them-In The Pocketbook”.

This has Already Happened to America [Technology Transfer].

Perhaps, Some Countries are in their current Inextricable Economic Dire Straits due to a Lack of Financial Common-Sense by their Government Leaders. This is Not Rocket Science.

Reality.

Reference: http://rt.com/business/foreign-currency-china-reserves-075/

German Watchmakers Create Unique Mechanical Timepiece

News Analysis:  German Watchmakers Create Unique Mechanical Timepiece with Seven Complications. The Eight-Years-to-Fruition Project consists of a device with 876 pieces installed in Twenty Layers. An “Electronic Watch” can possibly reproduce the Representations of these Complications. However, to  design and build such,  in Mechanical Form, can be described as Spectacular. The Mechanical Horologic Instrument gains recognition also through its ‘Second Sense Dimension of Sound’ emanating from its Chimes.

In a Century of Electronics, people often forget about Technology which can be Mechanical. This was true Several Thousand Years Ago with the “Antikythera Mechanism” [a Computer made by the Ancient Greeks for Astronomical Calculations] and is valid today by the Germans with this Horologic
Creation.

Reference: http://tinyurl.com/nxjnbj5

Brazilian Technology, Aided, in Part, by Russian Physicist, Can Make Non-Edible Materials Into Bio-fuel

News Analysis: Sugar Cane, Corn, Potato Peels, Wood Fibers and the like, are all suitable progenitor materials for bio-fuel production. By using the aforementioned, rather than discarding them, cleaner fuel for vehicles is available. The beneficial environmental impact to the world, using this methodology, is only limited by the financial resources allocated. Further studies into second generation technology and mass  production facilities are needed to be built throughout the world. Human intellect and money are the answers to these two elements.

Great intellect, as evidenced by Russian Physicist Igor Polikarpov and his associates, can fulfill the first element. The second element: Money, can be fulfilled by entrepreneurs and corporations of the world working with the pertinent governments. 

Reference: http://www.sptimes.ru/story/38404?page=1#top

Namibians Install Innovative Solar System for Brewery

News Analysis:  Efficient Solar Energy, if used in conjunction with advanced Electrical Storage Technologies, will provide manufacturers ‘Around the Clock’ Electricity. The ‘up-front’ Non-Recurring Costs [when amortized over the project life] conjoined with the ‘De Minimis’ Recurring Costs, can save manufacturers a great deal of money over time.

The “Cleanliness” of Solar Energy, along with its projected five-billion-year lifespan energy source, make it very attractive environmentally.

As Solar Cell Technology improves, energy output will increase and  “Cost-to-Produce” elements will abate.

Reference: http://tinyurl.com/qexunw7