Design

Dallas to Turn Dangerous Floodplains Into America’s Biggest Urban Nature Park

Most Americans are not aware that Dallas, Texas is building America’s largest urban nature park. With this, Dallas will become one of the greenest cities in America. Designed by Landscape Architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), it…

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Lefty NES Gamers Can Rejoice Thanks to the New Goofy Foot Controller

As a right-handed gamer, I’ve never experienced the perils of being a lefty and attempting to play NES. In an effort to make life easier for lefties, the Goofy Foot NES controller features reversed A+B…

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The LEGO Holiday Card Plott3r Was Created By a Teenager and His Little Brother

When I was 12 years old, I was simply playing with LEGO blocks. At 12 years old, Arvind Seshan was helping his older brother Sanjay, who’s 14 years old, create a machine out of LEGOs…

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World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Was Just Unveiled in India

India recently activated the largest solar installation in the world. Built on a speedy timeline of just eight months, this solar plant is located in Kamuthi in the state of Tamil Nadu. Having the capacity of…

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Mobile Internet Use Tops Desktop Use for the First Time in History

Smartphone & Tablet Mobile Internet Use Tops Desktops Milestones are always important to acknowledge, even when you zoom past them at warp speed. When a milestone illustrates a huge sea change in human behavior and activity,…

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Bolivian Women Weave Their Way Into People’s Hearts With Intricate Medical Device

The Aymara women of Bolivia have always been weavers, making traditional hats, sweaters, and ruanas (ponchos) for protection from the cold Andean highlands. Now their expertise is called upon to fashion intricate medical devices to…

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Chain Smoking Medical Robot Puffs 12 Cigarettes

Finding Solutions to Chronic Pulmonary Disease IndustryTap has reported on the Hard Rockin’ Robot with 78 Fingers and the Robot Master Chef, two new robots that have the potential to vastly improve human lives. But…

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IBM Watson’s Expert Personal Shopper to Boost Cognitive Retail

Nearly everyone lives busy lives these days and taking the time to shop for healthy food is a big challenge. Walk into a supermarket when you’re hungry and you’re likely to make poor choices. While…

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How the Internet of Things is Altering Business Models

The Business & Monetization of Smart Connected Devices Many have spoken of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet of Things, but how will they develop and what business models will be most…

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Researchers Can Now Digitize Teeth From a Video of Someone Smiling

Researchers at Disney Research Zurich, ETH Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have developed a simple method to digitize teeth. The team can digitize teeth by studying a video of someone smiling, or…

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