When many of us think of telephones, devices like the best Android smartphones ever released and the best and worst iPhones of all time are among the first things that come to mind. For the most part, ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. Engineers working on everything from laptops to cosmetic cases to glove boxes commonly use coiled spring-pin hinges because they can ...

The shift to drilling horizontal laterals, especially in shale oil and gas plays in the US, has led companies often to use coiled tubing units for well completion and intervention work, concludes a ...

The quest to replicate the flexibility, controllability, and dexterity of human muscles and associated limbs has inspired some truly “non-obvious” but highly workable actuator concepts. For example, ...

The market is booming for coiled-tubing equipment and services for well interventions and drilling. Coiled-tubing drilling, although only 15% of the overall CT industry, is growing faster than the CT ...

Installation view with Françoise Grossen’s “Euphrosyne” (1991, left), “Thalia (all natural)” (1991, center), and “Sisyphe” (1974, right) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Installation view ...