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Thursday, 29 November 2018 09:41

Turning brain scanning on its head with smaller MRIs

Ben Parkinson (right) and Konstantinos Bouloukakis working on a helmet-style MRI magnet (half-scale version), developed as part of the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Programme

Wellington researcher Ben Parkinson has received a boost from KiwiNet to help commercialise his game-changing compact superconducting magnets for smaller, next-generation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems.

Published in MEDICAL
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018 12:53

Metal or wooden construction submissions welcomed by 21 Dec

Metal or wooden construction submissions welcomed by 21 Dec

Glen Innes to Tamaki shared path consultation goes to a second round

Published in ENGINEERING
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018 07:59

NZTech will launch New Zealand’s first formal digital identity organisation in Auckland on Monday.

Andrew Weaver

Digital Identity NZ, a group of organisations and government agencies, has been set up to connect everyone in New Zealand that cares about digital identity.

Published in TECHNOLOGY
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Tuesday, 27 November 2018 09:06

Architectural drawings declared a national heritage treasure

Canterbury College West Elevation

The University of Canterbury’s rare collection of thousands of architectural drawings has been selected by UNESCO as a significant and important piece of New Zealand memory that should be preserved for all time.

Published in ARCHITECTURE
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Tuesday, 27 November 2018 08:57

Wellington supermarket trials GPS trolley tracking

Wellington supermarket trials GPS trolley tracking

New World wants to know how you shop, where you stop, and for how long. That’s why if you happen to be shopping at New World’s Island Bay supermarket in Wellington, you might notice ten trolleys with a bit of GPS kit attached to the front.

Published in TECHNOLOGY
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Monday, 26 November 2018 14:44

New cycling education system starts pedalling today

New cycling education system starts pedalling today

The best of the best in cycle skills training is up and pedalling from today with the implementation of the new national cycling education system, BikeReady.

Published in TRANSPORT
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Friday, 23 November 2018 11:22

Farmers’ innovative silo system wins school a coaching session with Richard Loe

Farmers’ innovative silo system wins school a coaching session with Richard Loe

A Southland school has won a coaching session with rugby legend Richard Loe thanks to a farming couple designing an innovative system to prevent falls into their silo.

Published in HEALTH & SAFETY
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Friday, 23 November 2018 10:40

NZ apprenticeship program named as top training scheme in Boat Builder Awards.

NZ Marine's Peter Busfield (right) receives the award in Amsterdam from Boat Builder Awards presenters Ed Slack and Nick Hopkinson. Read more at http://www.marinebusiness.com.au/news/nz-marine-training-gets-top-marks#shvdhFZOJphlWfCW.99

NZMACITO won in the Best Apprenticeship or Training Scheme category of the awards against four other entries from around the world. NZ Marine executive director, Peter Busfield on hand in Amsterdam to collect the award.

Published in MARITIME
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Friday, 23 November 2018 10:20

Queenstown Airport unveils new wayfinding system to aid passenger journeys

Queenstown Airport unveils new wayfinding system to aid passenger journeys

Queenstown Airport in New Zealand has revamped its wayfinding signage system to guide visitors through the gateway from the arrivals kerb to the departure gate, and as you can see it is pretty impressive.

Published in TRAVEL
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Thursday, 22 November 2018 19:59

The new biological economy

The new biological economy

From milk and merino to wine and tourism, a new book talks about how New Zealanders are transforming how we make a living off our land.

The New Biological Economy is the second book that has come out of a project funded by the Marsden Fund in 2009. The first book Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers (Routledge Hardback 2016, paperback 2018) had a more academic focus but this one is written for a public audience.

It poses some key questions:

  • Do dairy and tourism have a sustainable future?
  • Can the primary industries keep growing without destroying the natural world?
  • Does the future of New Zealand lie in high tech or in the innovations of a land-based economy?

It explores how high-volume, low value-add industries in New Zealand can continue to grow – and do so sustainably.

"We can do it with merino, we can do it with meat - and to a certain extent we can probably do it with dairy and with tourism as well," co-author and associate investigator Professor Eric Pawson told Kathryn Ryan of RNZ's Nine to Noon.

Co-author and co-principal investigator Professor Richard Le Heron FRSNZ told Nine to Noon that lessons can be learned from the Māori economy.

Continue to to read the full article>

Published in ENVIRONMENT
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