Autodesk in Superbowl - All Engineering

World most viewed game is so much entertaining, even advertisements broadcasted for this show have budget in millions. Next interesting thing is that most of these vidoes are made by engineering and drafting softwared "AutoCad". Bud Light Lime's Sphere of Summer or Thugs, a commercial for a Denny's campaign in Super Bowl XLIII, Autocad was used. Even movie trailer for Start Trek used this software. Mostly they use Autodesk Maya 3D modeling, animation and rendering software and Autodesk Inferno visual effects software. Coca Cola's Heist, Kellogg's Plant a Seed as well as Fandamonium for Monster.com. All were created with Maya. Include adds from Cash4Gold, Chase for Audi, Career Builder and Ladder, they were all used in Autodesk. The most loved add drinkability beer budweiser was made in Autodesk too.
Basically Autodesk, Inc., is a world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art Digital Prototyping solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are real.

World's slimmest TV - Just a quarter inch thick

Now we can have TV which is just a quarter inch thick. It is thinner than mobile set. News released by AFP states: South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled what it says is the world's slimmest LCD (liquid crystal display) TV.
The new product, measuring only 6.5 millimetres (0.26 inch) thick, is thinner than any other existing TV set, and even slimmer than most mobile handsets, Samsung said in a statement.
Its thickness is one seventh of Samsung's "Bordeaux 850" LCD TVs, which is currently the thinnest on the market, the company said.
The new product, which adopts an LED (light emitting diode) backlighting system, will be on display at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 8 to 11, Samsung added.
Samsung is the leader, who is the follower time will tell us. Till then lets wait till january 8 for the show in Las Vegas.

Solar Car

Why are we burinng gas? Aren't we emptying earth's gasoline tank? Probably we should tap the unlimited ray of sun. or moon or even stars? why don't anyone bring this? If we can drive giant satelitte, obviously we can drive tiny car.
Just today Toyota Motor is in news. They have started producing solar panels. Though it is limited to their own manufacturing plant, expert says these pannel may be used for future solar vehicle. Today report of Toyota developing solar powered green car is all over the place. Toyota has already begun using solar panels at its Tsutsumi plant in central Japan to produce some of its own electricity.
The solar panels on the roofs add up in size to the equivalent of 60 tennis courts and produce enough electricity to power 500 homes, according to Toyota. That reduces 740 tons a year of carbon dioxide emissions and is equal to using 1,500 barrels of crude oil.
Conclusion: Toyota is also likely to indirectly gain expertise in solar energy.
And probably GM,Ford,Chevy,Honda are secretly doing reseach too, who knows!

New Fastener Glitches Slow the Dreamliner Again

Oops! it happened again......nut and bolt. yeah very little thing to hold two pieces together again slow down the production of deamliner. Itgonna be dream again for Boeing. This time not only fastener delayed their schedule, they are having trouble attachng structres.
In the most recent glitch, a pressurization test on a Dreamliner fuselage revealed a small gap under the heads of thousands of fasteners. The problem occurred on the floor grid and other structures installed inside the fuselage shell where titanium was fastened to carbon fiber composite. This means they have to replace thousands of fasteners. Currently 12 dreamlines are in production assembly. Earlier the productionof dreamlined was delayed because of fastener supplier. This time it is their design glitch. They didn't define the specification of attachingtitanium to the compoisite shell. The specifications were developed by Boeing engineering staff.
Here is the engineering description of fastener specificaton:Cadmium coatings are applied to ferrous and nonferrous metals to provide resistance to corrosion. Like zinc, cadmium also provides sacrificial protection to a substrate such as steel by being preferentially corroded when the coating is damaged and small areas of the substrate are exposed. Electroplating accounts for more than 90 percent of all cadmium used in coatings and is normally specified in thicknesses between 10 and 30 microns.Because of incorrect specification now some of the fasteners are not flush and some have gap between the structre and the head of the fastener.Beoing has stated the problem as"fastener with incorrect length"