Design and Technology Provides Safe Lift Off

by Michelle Evans at Science Learning Centre West Midlands Flying is relevant to most of our lives, as ‘foreign’ holidays have become the norm. Yet it is often only when we are sat on a plane and ‘past the point of no return’ that we begin to wonder if it’s safe and even about the [...]

Wearable Technology

By Torben Steeg The integration of textiles and electronic technologies is proceeding at an astonishing pace. New example I’ve come across in just the last few weeks include a skirt with embedded lights whose pattern depends on the wearers’s movement, a T-shirt drum machine, light up accessories and an illuminated backpack. At first sight it might appear that a great deal of [...]