Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • Simple Bladder Cancer Test
    Bladder cancer is common and frequently returns after treatment. Current ways of checking for it are uncomfortable, but a simple urine test is in the works.
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  • Quieting Cubicles
    What?s the best way to prevent the distraction of co-workers talking or tapping on their keyboards? A website may show you how to block unwanted sounds.
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  • Blood Vessel Bandage
    Blocked blood vessels are routinely re-opened using balloon angioplasty and wire mesh cylinders called ?stents.? But the fix doesn?t always last.
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  • Air Energy
    Local engineers are working on a remotely-controlled aircraft that may fly for weeks, even years, without fuel.
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  • Wireless Power
    In this wireless world, we?re still tied to cords for power. And, if not cords, to batteries that constantly need charging. That may be about to change.
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  • Floating Windmills
    You may have heard that Delaware officials are considering offshore windmills within eyesight of local beaches. A new idea could one day make them invisible.
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  • Traffic Predictor
    A new technology is promising personalized forecasts of traffic. Wanna know how congested your usual route home will be next Thursday?
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  • Underground Power
    People don?t like to see power lines. And energy is lost as it travels. Innovative technologies are allowing utilities to move closer?and underground.
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  • Spider Silk Bones
    Even Spiderman doesn't have spider silk in his bones, as far as we know. But that's the idea behind a new technology.
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