Reinventing the Wheel – Technologue
Electric motors are round. Wheels are round. It’s a pretty natural impulse to combine the two. No lesser automotive luminary than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche did it...
The world’s smallest house—even a mite doesn’t fit through the door
A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new micro-robotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies....
A soft solution to the hard problem of energy storage
It's great in the lab, but will it actually work? That's the million-dollar question perpetually leveled at engineering researchers. For a family of layered...
A material with improved mechanical performance in the dark
Inorganic semiconductors such as silicon are indispensable in modern electronics because they possess tunable electrical conductivity between that of a metal and that of...
Building Momentum Trains Marines in 3D Printing
The US Marine Corps is known for innovating on the fly, and Building Momentum, in conjunction with their LulzBot 3D Printers, is helping them...
AREVO created the world’s first true 3D-printed commuter bike
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AREVO®, the leader in software-controlled additive manufacturing technology, today introduced a new CEO and a $12.5...
Increase battery life of electronic devices by more than a hundred-fold
Among the chief complaints about a smartphone, laptop and other battery-operated electronics users are that the battery life is too short and—in some cases—that...
3D printer that can create complex biological tissues – UCLA
Device could help advance regenerative medicine
A UCLA bioengineer has developed a technique that uses a specially adapted 3D printer to build therapeutic biomaterials from multiple...
A super green fuel for fuel cells
Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture...
3D Printed Titanium Implant Helps Man Regain Mobility
Amit Bhanot of India was, in his own words, “a perfectly normal kid who enjoyed bicycling, playing cricket and other sports” until 1991, when...
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