Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Communicating Cars
    Maybe your car already has sensors to detect some hazards…but soon it could be communicating with other cars and traffic signals to help you avoid accidents.
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  • Planet Hunters
    While the Mars rover Curiosity searches for life on Mars, engineers are working on new spacecraft – small enough to fit in your backpack – to help find planets with life outside of our solar system.
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  • Puzzle Cast
    Casts immobilize broken limbs while they heal, but there’s usually collateral damage to healthy muscle that’s weakened by also being forced to sit idle.
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  • Anti-Rain Headlights
    Glare from headlight beams bouncing off precipitation and back into a driver’s eyes can drastically reduce visibility. But a new technique can make rain and snow practically invisible.
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  • 7 Minutes of Terror
    Three weeks from today, NASA will deposit a rover on Mars. They’re calling it “the most advanced robot ever sent to another world” and say getting on the surface will involve “seven minutes of terror.”
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  • Virtual Reality Contact Lenses
    Experiencing virtual reality usually requires bulky headgear or stationary immersive environments. But new contact lenses may soon allow visual enhancements on-the-go.
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  • Skin Cancer Detector
    You want to ensure suspicious moles aren’t cancer, and catch any that are early, but a doctor’s eye can only see so much.
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  • Mosquito's Defense
    Mosquitoes thrive in wet environments, which might seem strange in one respect. How do their fragile bodies survive the impact of raindrops fifty times their weight?
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  • Nicotine Vaccine
    Instead of daily nicotine patches or pills, an experimental anti-smoking treatment aims to prevent the pleasures of smoking through vaccination.
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  • Robotic Jellyfish
    You hate to see the real thing at the beach…but, if a Virginia Tech engineer has his way, swarms of robotic jellyfish might one day keep watch over the oceans.
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