Robert Langer Profile. Engineering Synthetic Skin
I sat down with Dr. Robert Langer and a small group of journalists at MIT this week to discuss his lifetime work which includes 810 patents issued or pending, 24 companies that have received over…
Technology
Wind Turbines Snap in Half and Catch Fire – Dangers of Wind Turbines
There were roughly 225,000 wind turbines globally at the end of 2012 with a combined output of about 230,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity. With a 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), and rising spending expected…
UK’s $8.3 Billion Aircraft Carrier: Precision Engineering Re-energizing Economy
HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of Europe’s largest and most interesting manufacturing projects, has a price tag of $8.3 billion and is about 50% complete. When it is christened in 2017 the carrier will be as…
Ultra-thin Laptops Possible with GE Cooling Innovation
Electronics cooling technology so quiet, users won’t even know the laptop is running. Adapted from technology that GE researchers originally developed for commercial jet engines, GE (NYSE: GE) has announced a major technology breakthrough, called…
Viral Video Leads to 3D Printed “Robohand” Prosthesis
An amateur mechanical engineer, Ivan Owen, built a huge mechanical hand and posted a video of it on Youtube where it went viral. Richard Van As, of South Africa, who lost the fingers of his…
Afghanistan Deployed Palm-Sized Nano-Copter
Palm-sized nano copter micro-machines are now being used to collect intelligence in Afghanistan. These devices , weighing just 16 grams and 4 inches in length with two helicopter blades, are the world’s smallest military spy…
Robotics Leveling the Manufacturing Playing Field
According to Paul Markille, Innovation editor at the Economist, we are beginning to see the end of the era of mass production. For the past several decades the calculation of comparative advantage in manufacturing put…
MeCam: Nano-Drone Follows You and Takes Photos
Always Innovating is pleased to announce the MeCam, a revolutionary new product. The MeCam is a self video nano copter to point-and-shoot yourself. MeCam videos can be uploaded to Social platforms such as Youtube, Google+,…
Explorers Reach the Deepest Point in Earth over 35000 ft Down
In March 2012 James Cameron piloted the “Deepsea Challenger” into the Mariana trench – deepest point in Earth’s oceans – diving 35,756 feet (10,890 meters) to a depth greater than the height of Mount Everest. This dive…
Snowmobile Game Changer, the Snowboard that Goes Uphill?
The first patent for snowmobiles with rear tracks and front skis was issued in 1916. In 1960 Bombardier company invented the modern snow mobile it called the “Ski-doo” with its open-cockpit and one or two…
