All engineers know that hands-on design is much easier than CAD conceptualization. Building a prototype and reverse engineering is often a much smarter way to design as well, since the prototype can be seen to work and then designed retroactively. But reverse engineering requires precision that is uncommon to human faculties, and for contoured, complex, [...]

Ten years ago, the average webpage contained 80 kb of data and took about 20 seconds to load on the dial-up modems of the day. Today, the average page contains more than 9 times that amount of data; has your internet connection kept up? While the phone and cable companies in and around Los Angeles [...]