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Semprius to Bring High Efficiency Solar Panel to Market this Year

The pages of science and tech websites are regularly filled with pronouncements of next big thing innovations or early stage breakthroughs that are often highly theoretical. Often they reflect something achieved in laboratory conditions which may not see the light of day for years if ever at all. Due to this problem, there is a [...]

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Design-Engine New Logo and Vinyl Graphics GSXR 600

Design-Engine has a new logo in an effort to bring all the Design-Engine sites together. As we continue to grow, it becomes more and more important that Design-Engine markets itself appropriately. The thinking behind the design of our new logo was that we wanted it to be versatile to all the different industries that Design-Engine [...]

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Three Emerging Technologies on The Verge of Mass Adoption

Often many ideas deemed breakthrough technologies are merely refinements or improvements over existing products or ways of doing things as opposed to something truly revolutionary or novel. In this sense the three presented technologies of this article, which are only now making there way on shelves or showrooms for today’s consumer, may well represent this [...]

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GoPro with Founder / Inventor Nick Woodman

Some people may know when they have an amazing idea for the next best thing, but actually putting that thought into motion can elude them for years, if not altogether. Take Nick Woodman, the founder and inventor of the GoPro Camera, for example. Back in 2002, Nick and his buds were punching the pavement up, [...]

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Unmanned Nanomaterial Piranha Threatens to Redefine Naval Warfare

You’ve heard of UAVs, unmanned remote controlled military aircraft; but what about USVs? Standing for Unmanned Surface Vehicle, a USV is quite simply an unmanned boat, like Zyvex Marine’s Piranha concept. We’ve looked at USVs before, and the Piranha specifically in early 2010; but what was then a prototype under development is now a fully-fledged [...]

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Popular Science Review: Top 10 Inventions for 2011

In the five years that Popular Science has run the Invention Awards, we’ve seen a lot of remarkable things come out of people’s garages. Some are designed to treat the sick or save the planet. Others are simply fun to play ...
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Ideas, Thoughts, & Perspectives
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Harvard Business Review Blog: “Why I Hire People Who Fail”

A few weeks ago, I wrote about avoiding social media failures. I briefly mentioned our company’s “Failure Wall” and was surprised by the number of comments and questions I received about it. What’s the p...
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Army Developing Next-Generation Helicopter

The featured image above is a computer-generated imagery of one of several configurations that the US Army is looking at as part of the initial development work on its next-generation helicopters. (US Army imagery) WASHINGTON &...
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Events
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Helmet Design Contest: Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship 2012

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 The top 4 U.S. ice-cross downhill athletes from Red Bull Crashed Ice, Saint Paul, will represent team USA throughout the remaining 2012 world series events. The Challenge:
 Show us how you’d wrap the heads o...
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02 Pursuit Motorcycle Runs On Compressed Air

A vehicle that runs on air. It sounds like a fantastic idea, but energy is still needed to compress the air and the losses that go hand-in-hand with converting energy still have to be taken into account, just as in fossil fuel-...
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Bicycle
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FitDesk – Folding Laptop Exercise Bike

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Bottom line: 3 out of 5 / 5 - Above Average
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