These holes full of rubble would sure slow me down on the expressway, even if they are a little bit aggressive as a speed deterent.  If you hit one of these at more than a a few miles per hour, you would risk breaking an axle, or at least blowing out a few tires.

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OpenThesis.org is a free-to-use, centralized database of academic theses where anyone can upload their completed and approved thesis.  Their system typically includes details like bibliographical information, author, school, title, abstract, and date of publication, but doesn’t always have the full text available. Read the rest of this entry »

I took a trip to Houston recently for a friend’s wedding.  While there, he gave me a pretty extensive tour of NASA’s facilities.  We saw three things that really surprised me. Read the rest of this entry »

Industrial Interface was mentioned recently in a great article in Manufacturing Business Technology magazine titled “Product Innovation: Keeping good ideas on the fast track.”

“Companies like IndustrialInterface.com take the collaborative approach a step further, offering online platforms that provide product engineers with a whole new universe of potential resources and partners.” ~Manufacturing Business Technologies Magazine

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Arrange objects on the screen to stack colored objects inside their outlined spaces. Great spacial orientation game. Game embedded below. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazing video (embedded below) of James May from Top Gear taking a ride to the edge of space (70K feet) in a U2 Spyplane.  The flight suit looks like that of an astronaut and plane looks like a menacing bird.  It’s 100 foot wingspan is balanced by inline wheels when landing.  The entire system is from the 1950’s.  At one point James realizes that he and his pilot are the highest people in the world except for a few astronauts on the International Space Station.  Quite stunning.  I can’t wait until we can take trips to edge of our atmosphere.  It’s not far off my fellow engineers and space enthusiasts. Read the rest of this entry »

My co-founder here at Industrial Interface was recently awarded a top ranking as a sales industry social media user by InsideView.  Way to go Chris.  We appreciate all your efforts in building a successful online B2B brand.

Check out both of our twitter feeds here:

Help4Engineers (my feed for engineers and techies)

TechSalesLeads (Chris’ feed for industrial suppliers)

About InsideView (from their blog):

InsideView is a pioneer in on-demand business search and intelligence applications. We were founded in 2005 to help business professionals take advantage of the convergence of social media and enterprise applications – or what we’ve dubbed as “socialprise”. For several years now our application has helped sales & marketing professionals track key business events and relationships across thousands of traditional, subscription-based data providers and user-generated, “new media” sources, including social networks.