Issue 3 of Industrial Technology EXTRA! - our interactive electronic supplement to the printed edition of Industrial Technology - is out today. You can view the PDF here, the flip-page magazine here, or download the tablet version on the Industrial Technology app. Contents include: Robotics: Be (more...)

Issue 3 of Industrial Technology EXTRA! - our interactive electronic supplement to the printed edition of Industrial Technology - is out today. You can view the PDF here, the flip-page magazine here, or download the tablet version on the Industrial Technology app. Contents include: Machinery (more...)

Issue 2 of Industrial Technology EXTRA! - our interactive electronic supplement to the printed edition of Industrial Technology - is out today. You can view the PDF here, the flip-page magazine here, or download the tablet version on the Industrial Technology app. Contents include: Process (more...)

We hope you’re staying safe through the current crisis. At Industrial Technology, we’re taking steps to meet your changing requirements in these challenging times, and have launched a new weekly publication – Industrial Technology EXTRA! – to complement the monthly printed (more...)

My daughter came home from school with a maths joke. Three mighty armies gathered ready to do battle; one from the south and two from the north. On the night before the upcoming battle, the soldiers of each army drank themselves into a slumber. Each army had a squire carrying its banner. In the (more...)

Just when we’d all breathed a collective sigh of relief that Brexit was finally behind us and we could get on with the day jobs, the posturing has started up again. First battleground for the trade negotiations, it seems, will be fishing, with Europe insisting that it must have access to (more...)

Suffering of late with a rather nasty cough, Mrs Simms was keen to check that she wasn’t keeping me awake through the night. “It did at first,” I said, munching through my breakfast. “But I soon got used to it, like the way you do with a particularly loud clock.” The (more...)

I’ve just finished reading a novel that promised much but delivered very little. The picture on the front and blurb on the back hinted at one story; the content delivered another entirely. It promised a murder on the moon, three people caught up in the turmoil – a classic who-dunnit. The (more...)

I remember, when I was young, the importance of finding the thing that you were best at. Being best at something gave status, at a time in our primary school lives when we were all trying to understand our place in the world. Sometimes it was badge that was carried around with pride. Sometimes it (more...)

I vaguely remember a programme on the telly some years back examining the understanding in young children of the now and of the future. And they tested it using techniques of deferred gratification: you can have one sweet now, or a whole bag of sweets in one hour – which do you want? In (more...)