Remove Grant Remove IDEA Remove Malaysia Remove Universal
article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible.

Singapore 144
article thumbnail

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Cars That Think

That order was followed over the next couple of years by the DoD’s awarding of well over US $100 million in grants, investments, and initiatives aimed at shoring up U.S. Department of State, is also a professor of practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. access to rare earths.

Australia 111