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Enigin - Making The World Go Around

Most, if not all, of what we use and have around us has been made using an alternating current induction motor.

This is just the name given to an electric motoring unit that works like this: inside an electric motor, attracting and repelling forces (like magnets) create rotational motion. The process converts electrical energy into mechanical power, to allow the rotor to turn the machine it is attached to.

These motors are everywhere, in most businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, offices and even in our houses. Not to mention factories.

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What Energy Are You Using Right Now?

posted by enigin in Geeky Enigin Stuff

KEEPING an eye on your energy use is vital if you want to save energy - seems rather obvious but in reality can be harder to do than say.

For instance how much energy are you using at this very moment?

If you are still on a traditional power meter apart from seeing how fast that wheel spins round and the numbers change you cannot tell how much energy you are using, not until you get your bill, which is either weeks or even months later.

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2020 is the Future for Enigin and us All

I have been looking at some gadgets of late - there are so many now that it is difficult to filter through them all.

A part form gadgets of course we have the heavy weights like Apple’s iPad and all the gizmos that Google seem to be producing.

On one trawl across the web I kept on seeing predictive technology, what we are supposed to have in the future - all these amazing things that we look at in wonder but are often forgotten about or laughed at in the future.

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Not all Gadgets change the World VIII

posted by enigin in Geeky Enigin Stuff

At Enigin we love our gadgets, as we know many Enigin Distributors also do.

So here is the second of technology that didn’t change the world.

Hence this series of posts - after the picture phone, whatever next? Here is number 8:

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Not all Gadgets change the World VII

posted by enigin in Geeky Enigin Stuff

They keep on coming, that technology that was supposed to change the world - but never even made an impact.

At Enigin we love our gadgets, as we know many Enigin Distributors also do.

So here is the seventh of technology that didn’t change the world.

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Not all Gadgets change the World VI

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In the last post we looked at the amazing Alto Workstation - science fiction come to life in the 70s!

At Enigin we love our gadgets, as we know many Enigin Distributors also do.

So here is the sixth of technology that didn’t change the world.

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Not all Gadgets change the World IV

posted by enigin in Geeky Enigin Stuff

In the last post we looked at the Sceptre - yes interesting.

At Enigin we love our gadgets, as we know many Enigin Distributors also do.

So here is the fourth of technology that didn’t change the world.

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Not all Gadgets change the World III

posted by enigin in Geeky Enigin Stuff

In the last post we looked at the Connection Machine - yet another forgotten piece of technology.

At Enigin we love our gadgets, as we know many Enigin Distributors also do.

So here is the third of technology that didn’t change the world.

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Not all Gadgets change the World II

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In the last post we looked at the Newton - Apples 1987 attempt to launch a tablet!

At Enigin we love our gadgets, as we know many Enigin Distributors also do.

So here is the second of technology that didn’t change the world.

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LinkedIn Hits 100 Million

At Enigin we understand the importance of social media to business, we encourage our Enigin Distributors to sign up for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn may not be as popular as Facebook or Twitter, primarily because these are targeted at consumers, whereas LinkedIn is aimed at business/professional users.

But the service reached a major landmark when the they hit the 100 million member mark this week (March 22 2011).

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