The 2008 QUT Smart Train will have four carriages, below are some of the displays that visitors can look forward to:
Stop, look and listen
- How mobile phones are being used to monitor endangered birds around the Brisbane Airport
- Learn more about the Carbon Cycle and Environmental Banking
- What is healthy soil?
- How to save the world through – Staying home and using less
- Happiness – what makes people happy
Designing Solutions (the future is now!)
- 2nd Generation Biofuels
- Managing your energy use
- Translucent Solar Panel
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s)
- How the next big thing is really small (Nano Technology)
- Taming the terabyte monster
Preventing and curing
- Using maths to help heal wounds
- A better heart pump design
- Why keeping your balance is important
- UV exposure
- Bone and joint repair
Your Place, My Place – Our Planet
- How to extract DNA from fruit
- Improving nutritional value of bananas in Uganda
- Why bio security is important
- Greening the city through living walls
- Online content what are the copyright rules
- See the world from your own PC
- View the sun power-point, download both files listed below and ensure they are in the same folder on your computer
- Sun.ppt (4,513 KB)and Spectacular.mpg (11,238 KB)
- View the sun power-point, download both files listed below and ensure they are in the same folder on your computer