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Backyard Sport Still Winning After 50 Years

With summer winding down, barbecuing weekends are at a premium here in New England. Checking my calendar, I’ve been invited to attend five over the course of the next three weeks. One of the things I...

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Luxury Razor Sells For One Hundred Thousand Dollars

Over the course of a man’s life, he will run through the morning ritual of shaving his mug anywhere from ten to twenty thousand times. Check my math [Average number of times a man shaves per week (3-7)...

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Designing a Timeless Toy

LEGO bricks have been a mainstay of a child’s learning and development ever since 1932 when Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a Danish joiner and carpenter, began making wooden toys. The mission of the company’s...

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Touchdown Technology: Tackling Injury Prevention with New Helmet Design

In the United States, Sundays mark the kickoff of week-long fantasy football; an interactive, virtual competition where people manage professional football players of the NFL. And every Sunday, I’m...

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Steve Jobs, Technology Visionary and Face of Apple, Dies

Steve Jobs, the visionary largely responsible for Apple’s unprecedented success, died today aged 56. I am shaken by his death. Although sick for a long time, it seems somehow unreal that such a...

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Is Product Innovation a Social Activity?

When it comes to product innovation should big industry rely on the voice of the consumer to guide its decisions? How much investment should a company make in social media monitoring, outreach and...

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Wind Power At Home

There is a single wind turbine along the highway in Boston. Massive in size, it still manages to look a little lonely and lost to me. I want to put my hand on its blade and lead it to a wind field...

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The Truck that Peterbilt: Designing and Fabricating Classic Models

Take a cruise on any major highway in the United States and at some point you’ll likely feel the approaching rumble reminiscent of a 3.0 magnitude earthquake. You investigate by peering at your...

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4 Reasons to Keep Engineering in a Box

To get the most out of your design process, it is important to optimize how your company utilizes its engineering staff. As a former engineer in the HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)...

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Back to the Future II Nike MAG Shoes make $4.7 Million for Parkinson’s

In Back to the Future II, Marty McFly steps out of a DeLorean into 2015. Doc Brown immediately hands him new clothes, and Marty jams his feet into ultramodern Nike MAG shoes – the laces tighten...

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UK Prime Minister Launches Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering will be awarded every other year to an individual or team of up to three, of any nationality, responsible for advancing the application of engineering...

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Wireless Prosthetics Allow Researchers to Study Patients Outside the Lab

Steve Jobs once said: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Engineers using great design to build intelligent prosthesis would probably agree. Prosthesis—an...

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Catwalk CAD: The Next Fashion Craze

CAD is to engineering as fabric is to fashion. But as CAD becomes more lightweight and easier to use it’s expanding its reach to new environments. Applying traditional CAD software to produce...

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Engineering for a Better Tomorrow: Breakthrough in Water Treatment Technology

Clean water. Most of us take it for granted. However, in many communities in the developing world access to clean water is not guaranteed. On a daily basis millions live without clean water due to the...

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Mind Reading No Longer Required Coursework for Engineering Students

Let me read your mind! Think of a number between one and 1,000,000. Square your number. Now add the original number to it. Now divide your total by the original number. Now add… oh say, 17. Now...

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Robots Take Cue from Lizards and Dinosaurs

Engineers and biologists at the University of California, Berkeley have come together to build a new robot with a unique physical characteristic: a tail. The design of the appropriately named...

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Myomo Neuro-Robotic Arm Brace a Powerful Rehab Tool

Find a prevalent problem and solve it – any MBA worth their tuition will enthusiastically volunteer this as the surest way to start a successful company. What started in Woodie Flowers’ lab at MIT as...

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Brewing Up Some High-Tech Coffee

Like many professionals, I don’t (more truthfully, can’t) start my morning until I’ve had my first cup of coffee. It literally dictates the type of day I’m going to have; focused and alert versus...

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Cool Characters: Engineers Take On Global Warming

A narrow hose made of composite fibers rises 18 miles over the Arctic. Supported by V-shaped balloons, it sprays 34 gallons per minute of sulfur dioxide into the earth’s stratosphere. Slowly, the...

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Engineered to Last – Fenway Park Turns One-Hundred

Outside the red-brick left-field wall of Boston’s Fenway Park is a little-noticed latticework of steel trusses that rises to the peak of the famous 37-foot Green Monster. The ingeniously engineered...

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