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  • Pump Up the Bass to Douse a Blaze: Mason Students' Invention Fights Fires

    The fire extinguisher uses low-frequency sound waves to douse a blaze. Engineering seniors Viet Tran and Seth Robertson now hold a preliminary patent application for their potentially revolutionizing device. www.gmu.edu
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  • Rice team demonstrates miniature brain stimulator in humans

    Rice University engineers have developed the smallest implantable brain stimulator demonstrated in a human patient. Thanks to pioneering magnetoelectric power transfer technology, the pea-sized device developed in the Rice lab of Jacob Robinson in...
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  • CLARI: The incredible, squishable robot

    Engineers at CU Boulder have designed a new, tiny robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps. The machine, named Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect, or CLARI, borrows its inspiration from the squishiness and ...
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  • Reddmatter: The Future of Superconductivity

    Researchers not only raised the temperature, but also lowered the pressure required to achieve superconductivity. In a historic achievement, University of Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pres...
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  • Another potential renewable source of energy is on its way: cow manure

    Cows' manure could be used as a renewable energy source powering farms. (Image Credit: Leon Ephraim) Who knew farms could be powered by cow manure through an anaerobic digester? That's what will happen to Dickinson's College Farm in Pennsylvania as…

  • Flash graphene

    Scientists at Rice University are using high-energy pulses of electricity to turn any source of carbon into turbostratic graphene in an instant. The process promises environmental benefits by turning waste into valuable graphene that can then stre...
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  • Tracking the wave of success for Team GB's swimmers

    Training sessions for Team GB's swimmers have been getting a helping hand from a new system incorporating cutting-edge movement tracking and sensor technologies. From starting dives to tumble turns the state-of-the-art coaching aid is the firs
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  • Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD)

    Follow me: https://www.facebook.com/dereklmy https://instagram.com/dereklow Visit my website: http://dereklow.co During my freshman year at UC Berkeley, I set out to create the most ridiculously automated dorm room in the school ever. Three months...
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  • Rice lab makes pristine graphene in a flash

    A new process introduced in Nature by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of just about any carbon source into valuable graphene flakes. The process is quick and cheap; Tour said the "flash graphene" technique ca...
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  • ‘Flying fish’ robot can propel itself out of water and glide through the air

    A bio-inspired bot uses water from the environment to create a gas and launch itself from the water’s surface. Find out more: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/192826/flying-fish-robot-propel-itself-water/
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  • UVM and Tufts Team Builds First Living Robots

    Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: http://go.uvm.edu/firstrbts These tiny “xenobots” can move toward a target and heal themselves after being cut. ...
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  • OSU Bipedal Robot First to Run 5K

    Cassie the robot, invented at Oregon State University and produced by OSU spinout company Agility Robotics, has made history by traversing 5 kilometers, completing the route in just over 53 minutes. Cassie was developed under the direction of robo...
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  • Which is the right program for 3D modeling?

    Hi everyone. I am in the process of making an enclosure for a project, but I would like to make a 3D model of it on the computer to see what it would look like. I am just a freshman in college so I do not have efficient money to buy good programs. I was…

  • College or work experience

    Dear friends, I have a big decision ahead of me and wish to have the community input. I am applying to Florida Tech and they have two education paths available to travel. One is called the protrack option and it involves a co-op between you and another…

  • Two Wii Remotes offer cheap diagnosis of ocular torticollis

    The Wii may be nearing the end of its life with the Wii U on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean new uses aren’t being found for the motion technology Nintendo surprised us with 6 years ago. Researcher at the Seoul National University College of Medicine…

  • Dartmouth Time-Sharing System Simulator

    In 2007 the “Friends of DTSS” last updated a project they initiated years ago to build a DTSS Emulator to revive the 1964 version of the Dartmouth College Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. Their emulator closely mimicked the DTSS’ behavior and implemented…

  • Rice University researchers develop ‘squid skin’ camouflage using metamaterials

    RU’s new color display technology can produce vivid colors likened to HD LCD displays (via Rice University ) Having the ultimate camouflage has certainly helped fictional characters such as Harry Potter, the Predator and Sue Richards (Fantastic Four)…

  • UNSW Australia students build motorized couch that takes you to class

    Engineering students Laura Hodges and Fred Westling test drive robotic couch (via UNSW ) If you belong to the group of folks whose couch is indented with butt prints from prolonged hours of gaming and TV-watching, you're in for a treat. Now you can direct…

  • Independent robot construction workers

    TERMES, the termite inspired worker bot (via Harvard ) Harvard computer scientists and engineers from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and its Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering recently announced the development…

  • MIT designs new transparent display that could revolutionize cheap HUDs

    MIT’s nanoparticle infused display. This is what AR should be more like.. (via MIT ) Transparent displays or HUDs (Heads Up Displays) can be found almost anywhere in today’s world, including aircraft, vehicles, fashion wear (Google Glass) and even mounted…

  • Handie, the $400 3D printed prosthetic hand

    Handie prothetic hand made with 3D printing technology – via James Dyson Foundation The Maker Faire, dubbed the “Greatest Show and Tell on Earth,” took Tokyo by storm this week, bringing together makers of monsters, rock bank robots and prosthetic hands…

  • Suggestions For Applying To College

    Often times I get questions from my BlueStamp Engineering students on what the best method is for applying to college. After having conversations with many people in this space such as high school students, college students, parents, admissions counselors…

  • How Start-ups are Changing Everything

    Me (in the Grey Shirt) w/ the other Founding members of the PopShop co-working Space, one of the many places where the way we work is fundamentally changing. Entrepreneurship is a fancy word. It's frequently thrown around and abused, generally being used…

  • Autonomous ship, The Mayflower, sets sail this month

    The Mayflower, an autonomous ship, embarking on various missions over the next six months ahead of its transatlantic journey. This Mayflower looks nothing like the one in history books. (Image credit: University of Birmingham’s Human Interface Technologies…

  • Orange-tinted solar panels can generate electricity while growing vegetables

    The orange-tinted solar panels could be utilized in the future, allowing farmers to generate electricity while producing vegetables. (Image Credit: University of Cambridge) In the future, farmers could grow their crops indoors underneath tinted semi-transparent…