Inventors
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After being diagnosed with leukaemia, a 10-year-old girl from Australia was inspired to invent a better Band-Aid dispenser. The Faster-Aid works like a roll of tape that's resealable to keep the bandages sterile, and it won Origin’s littleBIGidea, an Australia-wide competition for young inventors.
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In the final part of our hilarious interview series, this joyfully maniacal EV genius sits down with Loz to discuss his youth as a street racing hustler, how he got into lithium battery technology, the future of high performance motoring, and his unique, radioactive wedding ring.
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For part three of our fascinating interview series, serial inventor Dezso Molnar spills the beans on a number of existing flying car designs that he feels are nailing it - and a few he's not a fan of.
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Well-known backyard inventor Colin Furze has proven common sense and engineering experience aren't prerequisites for creating crazy, hovering vehicles by strapping two-stroke petrol parajet motors to a metal frame, in the process creating a DIY hoverbike.
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Dezso Molnar is living his childhood dream, travelling America and the world as a wandering inventor. He’s in the process of starting up a flying car racing league, into which he’ll enter his own flying motorcycle.
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Many great inventions throughout history were initially scoffed at before they went on to take the world by storm. That's not a likely scenario when it comes to the following list of oddball contraptions ... but you never know.
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Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura working at Nichia Chemicals in Tokushima, Japan have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue LED, which is the key to modern energy-efficient lighting.
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Virgin Media Business has announced the winners of its inaugural Three New Things competition. The contest was launched as part of the company's search to uncover new technologies that have the potential to change the way we live. This year's winning tech includes shoes, solar power and satellites.
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In April, General Electric’s opened its patent vault to the crowdsourcing company Quirky. On Monday, the fruits of that partnership were apparent as the first four products under the joint Wink brand were unveiled.
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A US team from the University of Pennsylvania has taken out the 2013 James Dyson Award with the Titan Arm, an upper body exoskeleton that augments human strength. The team will receive the £30,000 (US$48,260) first prize, with an additional £10,000 (US$16,100) for their university.
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This year, James Dyson has 20 finalists from which to select the 2013 James Dyson Award winner. And like previous years, it looks like being no easy task. Here are the entries still in the running for the first place prize that has been upped to £30,000 (US$48,500) for 2013.
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Douglas Engelbart, who introduced the world to the computer mouse in 1968, has died aged 88.
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