Technology
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Liberty Belle
Deployed far from home, the USS Freedom carries more weight than its size suggests. As the apex of US naval technology, its success will decide the future of American sea power.
Taps and tales
From toilets and baths to energy-efficient heating systems, the world’s biggest sanitation trade fair is where you’ll first see the technology that eventually makes it into our bathrooms. Monocle pays a visit.
Sharpen Up
From the historic centre of pencil-making to the world's biggest trade fair, we profile Staedtler, the pioneering German stationery brand taking the pencil into the 21st century.
Clean break
This Tennessee city used to be known for smog. Now, Chattanooga has cleaned up its act, establishing itself as a technology hub and home to Volkswagen’s only US factory. How did it happen?
Renewal process
Having seen its film business nosedive thanks to the digital onslaught, Japan’s Fujifilm has found another lucrative avenue – skincare.
Defence
We look at the new hi-tech armoured vehicles for US and UK troops in Afghanistan, a new mine-resistant jacket from Colombia and the increasing physical hardship of life in combat.
Spark life
The world is going electric in a bid to combat environmental change and energy dependency. For once this Christmas, batteries are included.
From coal to cool
Thanks to its excellent universities, international transport links and super bright, skilled workforce, this former mining city in Germany’s Ruhr valley has been transformed into a hive for hi-tech firms.
From red to green
China builds one new coal power plant weekly and is the world’s largest carbon emitter. But as leaders meet for the Copenhagen climate conference, it is also the nation that could save the planet.
Future lab
Global leaders may be lacking in ambition but that hasn’t stopped us doing the heavy lifting for them. Monocle presents 10 grand projects that would make a big difference.
