Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Fuel from Garbage
    The national company Waste Management is about to turn garbage that?s currently burned or put in landfills into useful products through a high-tech method.
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  • Cell Phone Clouds
    What?s next for cell phones?? Fancy editing of high-quality video?? Data mining?? Not yet, unless you want to carry around very bulky equipment.
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  • Preparing for a Pandemic
    If the swine flu comes back with a vengeance in the fall, will local governments be able to handle mass vaccinations and distribution of medicines?
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  • Faster Flu Vaccine
    If the Centers for Disease Control (C-D-C) green lights a vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, it will take at least four months ? possibly longer ? to make it using today?s standard process?which includes virus growth in chicken eggs.?
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  • Pressure Sensor
    Touch screens are commonplace, even on our phones.? But most only respond to bare fingers and can?t detect varying pressures.? New engineering may soon allow many more applications.
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  • Self-Heal Plastic
    Cracks in plastic usually require repair or replacement.? Now engineers are creating materials that can heal themselves?much like a cut on your skin.
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  • Brain Engineer
    It?s the most complex organ in your body.? As science reveals more about how the brain works, engineers are devising?fixes for when it doesn?t..
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  • Instant Immunity
    When you get a vaccination, it takes time for your body to make the antibodies that protect you from a threat.? But now scientists are engineering instant immunity.
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  • Bone Repair
    Recovery from orthopedic surgery involving an implant relies on new bone attaching and growing.? Nanotechnology research using stem cells could help.
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  • Camera for the Eye
    Millions have eye diseases destroying retina cells that convert light to electrical signals, often blocking an otherwise healthy vision path to the brain and causing blindness.
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