mechanism

In the beginning of 2004, the popular home gym system, some Bowflex fitness machines were recalled by The Consumer Product Safety Commission. There had been a number of overwhelming consumer reports of injury from mechanical failure and problems with the Bowflex...

This robot comes out of RoMeLa: the Robotics and Mechanisms Lab at Virginia Tech. It is America's first entry into the humanoid division of RoboCUP: the international autonomous robot soccer playing competition.

Experts are warning that it's not just lost laptops and hackers that are to blame for identity theft. Photocopiers apparently pose a threat, too.That's because most digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives -- the same kind of data-storage mechanism found in computers -- to reproduce documents.As a result, the seemingly i

Energize America has explicitly been designed from the start as a non-partisan plan, meant to be palatable to all (minus a few lobbies, obviously), and not as a Democratic plan. It relies heavily on market mechanisms and private initiative, while focusing on long term goals like lower energy demand and carbon emission reduction.

It is my contention that the perpetuation of non-class divisions based on race and sex is the key mechanism sustaining capitalist relations of production, and therefore the key mechanism for upholding class society. That is my starting point.