'Fab Lab' Igniting Revolution in Kenya
The University of Nairobi’s Science and Technology Park is banking on 3-D prototyping to spark a manufacturing revolution in the country.
This is the 3D MakerBot printer in action. The machine is a scanner that prints three-dimensional objects of almost any shape from electronic data -- using plastic as its raw material. This drastically reduces costs.
Twenty-one year old Alois Mbutura is a first-year electrical engineering student at the University of Nairobi.
North Africa may overtake economic growth in the Gulf
A gradual return to political stability in Egypt and Tunisia should support activity there, while exports are likely to pick up on the back of the modest recovery in the global economy, its analysts noted, while expecting overall growth to gradually strengthen over the next couple of years.
Growth in the Gulf region, meanwhile, is likely to slow as the past decade's boom in hydrocarbon production fades and fiscal policy becomes less supportive, the analysts said.
BMW Sponsors Locally Supported 3D Printed, Auto Design
The automotive industry is conservative and doesn’t take enough responsibility in emerging markets. Thus, countries such as China and India have experienced huge problems with pollution as they have increased their living standards and entered the western consumption society. In these booming economies there are still people who live their lives according to old customs, in small sustainable societies. It is also they who suffer most from the ongoing urbanization.
Oxo-biodegradable plastic offering an eco-friendly alternative
Love it or hate it - plastics is here to stay for the foreseeable future, because there is nothing like it for protecting food and other goods from damage and contamination.It is waterproof, strong and flexible, it can be adapted for a variety of products and is inexpensive.Although we cannotyet do without it, we still agonise about the state of the environment and plastics packaging waste that escapes collection and ends up as litter on land and sea.
