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Farming Without Fields: 3 Innovative Uses of Agricultural Engineering
When you think of nontraditional farming methods or agricultural engineering, you may picture greenhouse-type configurations of Bluetooth-enabled seed beds. You might also see stacked shipping...
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Escobar Technologies’ Medical Simulator Is a Real Disrupter
The U.S. health-care system is as complicated and intricate as it has ever been. As the demand on the medical-care system weighs heavier with each passing year, the need for properly trained nurses,...
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Auto Motive: Felix Holst on Making the Most of an Industrial Design Career
Felix Holst always knew he wanted to design cars: “As a kid, I always loved art, but I also loved making things. From the age of 4, I wanted to be a car designer.” As a founding partner at Hack Rod and...
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Plume Labs Puts Pigeons on Patrol for Air-Pollution Monitoring
Flocks of pigeons patrolling London’s boroughs and streets are not a new sight, but Londoners don’t exactly hold the birds in high regard. Courtesy Plume Labs In the past, they have valiantly tried to...
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Entrepreneurship in Chile Is Exploding With Products Designed for Impact
When picturing hotbeds of entrepreneurship and innovation, the usuals come to mind: Silicon Valley, New York, Stockholm. But Santiago, Chile? Probably not—but not for long. Chile is a Latin American...
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From Taps to Toilets, How Clean Water in Developing Countries Affects Women
In developed countries, women can take for granted that clean water flows freely from the tap, toilets empty with a simple flush, and established infrastructure handles sanitation. But in other parts...
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Rapid Rewards: Maximize Hardware Innovation Capacity With 5 Tools From SMALLIFY
The energy surrounding a new product idea feels alive, infectious even. But even the most eager hardware entrepreneur with a brilliant design may face challenges in bringing that idea to life. When...
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Candy Mechanics’ Sweet Milling Mod Carves Customized Confections
“Know who you are, and tell the world.” That’s the prompt Sam Part had to answer as part of a design project at London’s Kingston University. He pondered what that meant for him and came to a...
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Lessons Learned: Titan Gilroy’s Plan to Reclaim American Manufacturing
Titan Gilroy is a machinist, businessman, reality-TV star, and now an educator. With accolades like that, it might be surprising to learn that his personal history has more stripes and bars than...
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Are Today’s Grads Properly Prepared for Careers in Sustainable Engineering?
The caps have been tossed. The diplomas are framed. The résumés are ready. Graduation season is over, and newly minted engineers and designers are entering a professional world in need of those with...
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No Grown-Ups Allowed: woom’s Lightweight Bikes Are Just for Kids
When a couple finds out they’re expecting a child, it’s not unusual for them to rush out and fill their home with little shoes, little clothes, little toys. When woom Bikes cofounder Christian Bezdeka...
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4 Ways Energy-Analysis Tools Work for Architecture Firms—and the Planet
It’s no longer enough to build walls with recycled wood pulp or roof buildings with energy-absorbing tiles and call your work “green.” Companies want energy efficiency from top to bottom, roof to slab,...
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One Man, His Machine, and a Mission to Take Kenya’s Manufacturing Jobs to the...
In Kenyan towns large and small, an informal network of craftspeople, autoworkers, and small-scale manufacturers keeps the country’s economy quietly humming. These fixers and makers create and build...
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C40’s Women4Climate Sheds Feminine Light on Major Cities’ Climate Strategies
Modern cities are built atop the designs of decades—or even centuries—past, long before the current dilemmas of rapid population growth, chronic traffic congestion, and climate change had ever been...
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Could a Mosquito-Filled Drone Be the Key to Battling Deadly Viruses Like Zika?
Mosquitoes are not just annoying summertime pests. Each year, the buzzing insects are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)—making them the...
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6 Startup Success Tips from HoloBuilder, Construction’s “It” App
The dream of all developers is that their product, after months or years of work, sees the light of day and becomes an indispensable tool. Few developers experience that, but even fewer achieve the...
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Shape-Memory Alloys Bid Adieu to Old-School Orthodontics
Today’s dental braces date back to the early 1900s, a dark time in dentistry marked by lack of anesthesia and machines resembling medieval torture devices. Practitioner Eugene S. Talbot even proposed...
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3 Ways Low-Carbon Products Can Help Any Homeowner Realize a Greener Future
As global temperatures reach record highs and polar ice caps dwindle, people increasingly understand that climate change not only endangers their health and well-being but also threatens their future...
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This Visionary VR Surgical Simulation Could Reduce Doctors’ Radiation Risk
Training to be a surgeon is hard—no surprise there. But should medical training also come with a significant risk of physical harm? Urologists, for instance, are exposed to high levels of radiation...
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How 5 Big Moves Kept a Small Manufacturing Business Alive
Phil VanderKraats is an artist, first and foremost. His milieu is crafting intricate, custom signs for businesses. For many years after starting Signs by Van in Prunedale, CA, Phil experienced success...
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