Street Pong Builds Urban Communities
German company Urban Invention has created a product that gives pedestrians the ability to interact with one another on a personal level in an […]
AuthorBrad Kelechava
Invention of the Backspace Key
This early advertisement for the IBM Correcting Selectric II typewriterappeared on televisions in 1973. It demonstrates a typewriter that made use of a rotating “typeball” […]
Blu-ray vs HD DVD: Standard Format War
The first high-definition televisions were released in 1998, but they didn’t gain popularity until the 2000s after becoming more affordable. During this time, in response […]
Collaborative Robots
Collaborative robots are designed to be used in “collaborative workspaces” with humans. Collaborative operations offer many notable advantages over other robotics procedures, but they require […]
ISO/DIS 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety
***Update: ISO 45001:2018 has been published. You can get it here: ISO 45001:2018, or read more about it here: ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety Management […]
Standardizing the Singularity
The Internet of Things (IoT) is and will continue to change the world through sensors that can instantly generate information and respond to needs and […]
ANSI Z80.3 – Sunglasses Requirements
ANSI Z80.3, as stated in the standard itself, is meant to “establish standards for noncorrective (essentially plano power) lenses that are intended for attenuation of […]
VHS vs Betamax: Standard Format War
The story of the format war between the VHS and Betamax standards begins in 1971, when Sony invented the U-matic, the first closed case video […]
Testing Performance of Laboratory Fume Hoods
The standard for testing the performance of laboratory fume hoods (laboratory hoods) has been revised. The latest version, ANSI/ASHRAE STANDARD 110-2016 – Methods of Testing […]
ISO Image and UDF Disk Image
ISO Image is the term that has been used to describe one of the standardized forms of the archive file of an optical disc, and […]