The Slippery Slope: Robotics For Humans or Roboticizing Humans?
Exoskeletons that augment human strength are nothing new but this one developed by mechanical engineering students stood out enough to win the 2013 James Dyson Foundation award. Explaining the award,...
View ArticleHundreds Of Millions Of Women Spend 25% Of Their Day Collecting Water. What...
Every day hundreds of millions of people, most of them women and girls, walk huge distances for water. The means of carrying it vary but the task is typically grueling. The Wello WaterWheel is a...
View ArticleToilet Executive Invents A $1.50 Sanitary Toilet Pan That Could Save Millions...
In 2012, Jim McHale, an R&D guy at American Standard, travelled to Bangladesh to see for himself what people were using for toilets. He found open pit latrines that did very little to help prevent...
View ArticleCarolyn Hoxby Created A New Way For Low Income, High Achieving Students To...
Carolyn Hoxby studied every low income, high achieving student at the high school level in the United States and found that there were far more such students than people thought, but colleges simply...
View ArticleWhat Will The British Public Choose As The Theme For The UK’s £10 Million...
What is the biggest problem of the 21st Century? Citizens of the UK will get a chance to weigh in when they vote to select one of six problems to serve as the challenge for the Longitude Prize. Named...
View ArticleThe Kids Are All Right. If Ever You Worried About The Next Generation, You...
The 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair brought together over 1,700 young scientists and engineers from more than 70 countries to share their inventions and discoveries with the...
View ArticleA Year Ago, Sara Volz Won The Intel Science Talent Search. Today, She’s At...
Sara Volz built a chemistry lab under her bunk bed and developed a new kind of clean algae biofuel. All of this finally got her to the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, where she took first place at...
View ArticleIf I Could Invent One Thing To Make The World A Better Place, It Would Be…
The 7th annual Doodle 4 Google competition asked kids to draw an invention that would make the world a better place. There were more than 100,000 submissions, but only one 2014 Doodle 4 Google winner:...
View ArticleMeet San Quentin’s Startup Entrepreneurs
Most ex-convicts struggle to find employment when they leave prison. Across the country, there are countless programs that offer job counselling and training for those nearing the end of their...
View Article16 Year Old Invents TALK, An $80 Device That Converts Breath To Speech
People with speech and movement impairments now have a much cheaper alternative to the $10,000 computer systems that have been available, thus far, to help them speak. A 16 year-old student from India,...
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