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What The Tech?! Injection Moulding

Injection moulding would provide a technological revolution. When you think of injection moulding, you often think of modern designs that allow for the construction of plastic components that have intricate designs. This isn’t always the case, and th...

Investigator515 4 minute read 15 Jan 2026 0 comments $0.11

What The Tech?! Fly By Wire

Aviation is usually a pretty fun topic to write about. With man making the move from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle to the F-22 pretty rapidly, there’s been plenty of technology that has worked behind the scenes to make aviation and transport...

Investigator515 4 minute read 16 Dec 2025 10 comments $0.16

What The Tech?! Carbon Fibre

If you’re into sports, cars or aerospace, you won’t have to look too hard to find the usage of carbon fibre. While some inventions take time to develop and come to life, Carbon fibre was not one of those inventions. With its lightweight, high tensile...

Investigator515 5 minute read 2 Oct 2025 1 comment $0.12

What The Tech?! Microwave Emissions

The GigaHertz bands would help us to achieve true, cable-free, high-speed data exchange.Today’s world is a world of connectivity. We stream our music from remote servers, access our documents via the cloud and even have the capacity to share our work...

Investigator515 5 minute read 17 Aug 2025 2 comments $0.11

What The Tech?! Microscopes

Microscopes would unlock the world at a cellular level. While the modern world has some pretty fancy technology, when you look around, it’s kind of easy to understand why. Miniaturised electronics is just one of the reasons we’re able to lean so heav...

Investigator515 5 minute read 15 Apr 2025 1 comment $0.11

What The Tech?! Drones

Drone Technology would help usher in a new technological shift In the years following the Second World War, we saw the rapid development of new technology across many sectors. This would cause ongoing changes to things like life expectancy and our ov...

Investigator515 6 minute read 2 Mar 2025 0 comments $0.09

What The Tech?! Genetic Modification

This controversial technology has now become commonplace In the post-COVID era, there’s been plenty of fresh controversy around scientific and medical procedures. This has included things like vaccines and even things like the efficacy and safety in...

Investigator515 5 minute read 2 Feb 2025 6 comments $0.05

What The Tech?! Touchscreen Technology

Touchscreen technology would help kick off the era of smartphones In today’s world, with smartphones, smart vehicles iPads and even touchscreens on aircraft, it’s easy to take the simplicity of the touchscreen interface for granted. For a long time t...

Investigator515 4 minute read 19 Jan 2025 1 comment $0.05

What The Tech?! Gas Turbines

Gas Turbines evolved to provide conventional power to systems across heavy industry It’s fair to say that the concept of technology can be pretty relative when we consider its context. A Morse code-driven telegram is decidedly boring in a world with...

Investigator515 5 minute read 14 Dec 2024 0 comments $0.03

What The Tech?! Open Source Software

Open-source software helps power all types of systems the world over. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As technology has played a greater role in our lives, the subscription-based system has also grown. While p...

Investigator515 6 minute read 16 Sep 2024 5 comments $0.09