Beating 90 entries, ranging from a twin-seat electric aircraft to the late Alexander McQueen's last fashion collection, Min-Kyu Choi's redesign of the charmingly bulky British three-pin plug has won ...
When the British plug was introduced in 1946 it did not have great ambitions. It did not expect to travel the world, buried in laptop bags, forming awkward acquaintances with travel adapters. When ...
It began as just one of those niggling everyday frustrations. But a design student's determination to end the 64-year reign of the unwieldy three-pin electrical plug has won him an international ...
In the aftermath of last week’s Alaska Airlines in-flight emergency, some aviation experts are questioning the structural design of the section of the Boeing 737 Max 9 that blew off the plane. On that ...
The new, patented Split-Fire spark plug's V-shaped ground electrode broadens the flame pattern without excessive erosion tendencies. The spark kernel is larger than those of a conventional plug, ...