Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Mary Lord
Count NASA engineers among the soccer fans following the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil this summer. They’re not only students of “the beautiful game” but also of technologies like the Brazuca football whose aerodynamic properties give players an edge.
Photo credit: NASA’s Ames Research Center
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Tags: aerodynamics, Aerospace, Ames Research Center, ball, Brazil, Brazuca, fluid dynamics, NASA, soccer, Sports, Technology, World Cup
Posted on July 31st, 2012 by Mary Lord
There’s no Olympic medal for sports engineering. But breakthrough technology is playing a star role at the London games – if you know where to look. The National Science Foundation has teamed up with NBC’s Olympics and education division to create a guide to the split-second timekeepers, wave-reducing pools, high-performance gear, and other feats of technology that let athletes compete at their peak.
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Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, athletes, bicycling, Design, helmet, London, Olympics, pool, Sports, sports engineering, stadium, swimming, team, Technology
Posted on July 11th, 2012 by Mary Lord
Searching for the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Look around your classroom. Or rather, check out Sydney, Australia, where students – many of them computer science and engineering majors – from every continent competed to solve the world’s toughest problems at Microsoft’s 10th annual Imagine Cup.
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Tags: computer engineering, Computer Science, contests for students, environmental engineering, global challenges, grand challenges, Imagine Cup 2012, Microsoft, STEM education, student competition, Sustainability, Technology, Technology Contest
Posted on June 7th, 2012 by Mary Lord
Millions of people get the blues during winter. It’s called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and current treatment requires shining a light in the sufferer’s face for up to two hours a day. But Finnish start-up Valkee has a better idea: directing light into sufferers’ ears.
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Tags: ear buds, Electrical, Engineering, Finnish, gadget, invention, jet lag, light-sensitive proteins, mood, Oulu University, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, Technology, Valkee
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by Mary Lord
Anyone who’s ever worked up a sweat running for the school bus knows it takes energy to move. Now, a young inventor in England has come up with a way to capture the ambient kinetic energy of footsteps–or dance moves–and use it to generate electricity.
Pavegen tiles are rubber, waterproof squares made from recycled tires, and 80 percent of their inner workings are made from recycled materials, too. When people step on them, the tiles harvest the energy and convert it to electricity.
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Tags: dance, Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, Energy, Green Technology, lights, Materials, Pavegen, recycling, sidewalk, Technology
