Materials

Where cross-border transactions are concerned, particularly when dealing with highly sensitive equipment, it’s important for the exporting party to be adequately prepared. Often, dual-use goods and controlled-use goods such as IT equipment get held at the border when proper paperwork and permits are not completed to the satisfaction of the officers. For a technology reseller, this can cause unforeseen problems, ...

Car ownership is a dream come true for those who’ve recently reached the legal driving age limit, but nobody truly appreciates how expensive vehicle ownership is until they experience it for themselves. We’re all told by seasoned motorists that purchasing and running car is a significant financial burden, but we prefer not to listen to them during our early driving ...

If you want to see clearly at night, you need some piece of night vision equipment. Whether it’s night vision goggles, a camera, binoculars, or anything else outfitted with night vision capabilities, the fact remains true. But, unfortunately, not everyone has access to night vision goggles or the like. Most users tend to be professionals who need night vision tech ...

Few pieces of equipment in your shop are going to prove as durable as your coordinate measuring machine; its body experiences little wear and tearif you load and unload properly and it has not been transported, or was transported by experts. You still see instruments in use from the 1990s and you may even have one yourself, as they can ...

What do you usually do with the used up printer ink cartridges? Well, 8 out of every 10 people throw the used cartridges in the dustbin. You do that too, don’t you? You shouldn’t. Read ahead to find out why: Printer cartridges are made of a complex combination of plastics, metals, foams and chemicals that can probably take up to ...

Sploid is fast becoming one of our favorite websites and this little tidbit is definitely one of the reasons why! Check out this non-Newtonian fluid in a pool!

We're not exactly sure whether it's a a good thing to feed silkworms dyed food but someone thought so and when they did something pretty cool happened...

$3.5 million from Social+Capital has enabled Athos to create connected workout clothing capable of tracking your muscle output among other things.

When it comes to futuristic technology buildings are one of the most impressive mediums of displaying this type of technology. Today we're checking out a new bionic material that allows buildings to open and close like flowers that bloom. Flectofin is a material based upon the Bird of Paradise flower. The material has been around for approximately a year and just received the first ever Gips-Schüle Research Prize.

The army is looking into using a new high-tech weapon to combat roadside bombs and IED's -- paintball guns.