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Category: Innovation
The Wonder Cactus that Teaches How to Produce Green Hydrogen
The prickly pear cactus, capable of growing in arid and desolate areas with hardly any water,…
Dehumidifying material could boost indoor comfort by sucking up moisture
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” That adage applies indoors as well as out, which…
Tree-Planting Robot Supports Reforestation Efforts in the Amazon
In the 1972 cult science fiction film Silent Running, a lone astronaut is responsible for maintaining…
Biomimetic Architecture: Termite Mounds Enable Breathing Buildings
In 2010, Japanese researchers made an intriguing discovery by utilizing a slimy mold to devise an…
Self-balancing, omnidirectional big red balls bike
James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled “Screw…
Project Starline: Towards Glasses-Free 3D Videoconferencing
The first commercial 3D cinema experiences date back more than a century, with the film The…
Infrared backpack stove powers through world’s fiercest weather
Imagine a long, dank pre-dawn to post-dusk day of crawling up an exposed mountainside, trudging through…
Studying Marine Life with Seaweed-Based Soft Robots
The upcoming years will witness a remarkable shift towards miniaturization and decentralization. Millions of power-efficient IoT…
Balance-assessing rig is kind of like a mechanical bull for stroke patients
When someone has suffered a stroke, the resulting partial paralysis and/or loss of strength often leaves…