blog.makezine.com - 11/18/2008
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Interesting article about Honda @ Forbes... At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda ...
Of all the bizarre subsidiaries that big companies can find themselves with, Harmony Agricultural Products, founded and owned by Honda Motor, is one of the ...
tanyavlach.wordpress.com - 11/12/2008
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A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid
of machine and organism, a creature of social reality
as well as a creature of fiction. - Donna J. Haraway Eye-Cam An intraocular installation of an eye-cam. An experiment in wearable technology, ...
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Honda, where engineers rule
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... a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).Honda isn't currently sponsoring us, but I'd welcome them back in a heartbeat.
The article is actually from '06 and says that Honda had never had a mass layoff. I wondered if that was still true considering the present troubles. So far so good, at least in Ohio: they still aren't planning layoffs.
Engineers Rule [Forbes via MAKE]
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