Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Liquid Wire
    Say you have an appliance with a cord that just won’t reach the electrical outlet. A developing technology could allow the cord to stretch or, if cut, even heal itself.
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  • PDA Hand Signals
    You’ve seen games – like Microsoft’s Kinect – controlled using hand gestures. A similar idea might soon allow you to type on very small personal devices.
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  • Dog Dialogue
    Do you and your dog understand each other? Chances are, the communication’s not perfect…but a new technology might help.
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  • Skin-Tight Spacesuit
    Astronauts of the future could get a style upgrade, in a skin-tight suit that would allow better mobility. And it might have benefits here on Earth too.
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  • Scared Healthy
    Halloween is every day at a medical center where doctors are using the latest virtual reality technology to scare people, on the way to curing them.
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  • Shot in the Gut
    No one likes injections. So the thought of getting them inside your body – by swallowing a pill with tiny needles – doesn’t, at first, sound appealing.
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  • Shot in the Gut
    No one likes injections. So the thought of getting them inside your body – by swallowing a pill with tiny needles – doesn’t, at first, sound appealing.
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