Inventions

‘Heart In A Box’ Invention

Plain Dealer: The problem: Hearts for transplant must be transported from donor to recipient within about four hours before complications begin to develop. The hearts are placed on ice inside picnic coolers for the drive or flight from one hospital to another. That means traffic jams, bad weather and mechanical problems can cause such serious

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Nano-Carbon Material For Light Source

Focus Taiwan News Channel: A research team at Taiwan’s National Defense University has recently been using nano-carbon materials to develop lightbulbs and tubes that are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly than currently available products. Ger Ming-der, a professor at the university’s Department of Chemical and Material Engineering at Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, said he

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New Steak “Discovered”

Cattle Network: On April 17, 2012, the Vegas Strip Steak was unveiled exclusively as the “newest” beef steak at the Protein Innovation Summit in Chicago, Ill. “The Vegas Strip Steak is the latest and perhaps last steak to be found from the beef carcass,” said Jacob Nelson, Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center

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Blind Mice See Again

Bloomberg: Blind mice had their vision restored with a device that helped diseased retinas send signals to the brain, according to a study that may lead to new prosthetic technology for millions of sight-impaired people. Current devices are limited in the aid they provide to people with degenerative diseases of the retina, the part of

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‎Algae Biofuel

FastCoExist: Today, much of the fuel that powers Brazil’s cars and trucks is grown as sugarcane. Now, the country is brewing a second source in tanks of algae. The world’s first industrial-scale biofuel plant, using waste from making their already popular biofuel (ethanol) to feed the production of another (algae), is scheduled to open in

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Profitable Wind Turbine

The Desert Sun: Johann Steinlechner is the exact antithesis of what you’d expect a green-tech entrepreneur with a game-changing concept in wind power to look like. With his wide-brimmed cowboy hat, Western-style shirts and thick Austrian accent, the Palm Springs “wind cowboy” is the odd man out among the suits and tech-nerds at the wind

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