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AUTOMOTIVES
By C.C. Weiss
Compressed air powered
hyper car.

Wearables
Worlds first
photosynthetic
living matterinfused 3D-printed
wearable.
By Colin Jeffrey

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles joined

the likes of Infiniti, Peugeot and
a slew of other automakers this
week, revealing its Vision Gran
Turismo video game car. Like all
those parties before it, FCA took
full advantage of the opportunity,
creating an outright extreme
hypercar with a level of
performance that can only exist
in a game. The single-seat SRT
Tomahawk sports car develops
nearly 2,600 hp from a hybrid
powertrain with V10 and air
compression drive.

Life safety matter

Breathe Saver
lets people
breathe while
escaping fires.

While a smoke detector can certainly provide

you with an early warning in the event of a
house fire, it can't usually do much to help
you get out of the building once that fire is
underway. That's why Toronto-based startup
Safety iQ developed the Saver. It's a
portable device that reportedly allows users
to
breathe
safely
in
smoke-filled
environments, while also serving as a
flashlight and alarm.

Speaking at the 2015 TED

conference
in
Vancouver,
Canada, MIT professor Neri
Oxman has displayed what is
claimed to be the worlds first 3Dprinted photosynthetic wearable
prototype embedded with living
matter. Dubbed "Mushtari," the
wearable is constructed from 58
meters (190 ft) of 3D-printed
tubes coiled into a mass that
emulates the construction of the
human gastrointestinal tract.
Filled
with
living
bacteria
designed to fluoresce and
produce sugars or bio-fuel when
exposed to light, Mushtari is a
vision of a possible future where
symbiotic human/microorganism
relationships may help us explore
other worlds in space.

Motorcycles
BMW unveils
Concept 101
bagger-style
cruiser at Villa
d'Este.

Sony's new LED

light bulb is also a
Bluetooth speaker
By Stu Robarts

It's not always practical or cost-effective

to have a sound system in every room
of your home. If your light bulbs could
play music, however, it would kill two
birds with one stone. Well, Sony Japan
has unveiled precisely that: an LED
light bulb with a built-in Bluetooth
speaker.
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Parts of a plate heat exchanger

The plate heat exchanger normally consists of corrugated plates assembled into a frame. The hot
fluid flows in one direction in alternating chambers while the cold fluid flows in true counter-current
flow in the other alternating chambers. A schematic diagram of the flow is shown in Figure 1. The
fluids are directed into their proper chambers either by a suitable gasket or a weld depending on the
type of exchanger chosen. Traditionally, plate and frame exchangers have been used almost
exclusively for liquid to liquid heat transfer. The best example is in the dairy industry. Today, many
variations of the plate technology have proven useful in applications where a phase change occurs as
well. This includes condensing duties as well as vaporization duties. Plate heat exchangers are best
known for having overall heat transfer coefficients (U-values) in excess of 35 times the U-value in a
shell and tube designed for the same service. Plate heat exchanger is an attractive option when more
expensive materials of construction can be employed. The significantly higher U-value results in far
less area for a given application. The higher U-values are obtained by inducing turbulence between
the plate surfaces. Owing to this they are also known to minimize the fouling.