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HUMAN PATIENT TREATED WITH CRISPR GENE EDITING FOR THE FIRST TIME

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HUMAN PATIENT TREATED WITH CRISPR GENE EDITING FOR THE FIRST TIME

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A simple injection in China on Tuesday was the first of its kind -- with it, researchers injected gene-edited cells into a human for the first time, using the emerging CRISPR gene-editing technique.http://www.popsci.com/crispr-tested-in-human-patient-for-first-time

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Imagine that your at the airport and you are waiting to get on the plane and you want to take a look at the plane. Well here in London you wouldn't have to look side to side, but down. The Britannia Airport, is a unique airport where you are basically are floating, a floating airport. You would get on the plane from the top, and walk up/go up to get off of the plane.
My Question: How does the airport float?

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(CNN) - Airports need a lot of space, but in the places most in need of air connections -- islands and large metropolises -- it's a commodity that's in short supply.

In search of solutions, planners will sometimes turn to the sea.

Huge land reclamation projects are an obvious route. That's what was done in Hong Kong and Osaka to expand airport capacity.

Some visionaries have taken a rather different approach.

What if we could make a runway float over the virtually limitless flat surface of the sea?

Aircraft carriers have floating runways, but they're also warships which need to be maneuverable and to travel at speed.

Their decks are too small to deal with commercial craft -- even the largest carrier falls short of the requirements of modern jet airliners.

But let's take the concept of the floating deck further.

What if we strip it of its engines and lower decks, anchor it in a set location, and then make it long enough and wide enough for a medium-sized airliner to land on it?

The result is a very large floating structure that's neither a ship nor an island: It's a floating airport.

During World War II, the British entertained the idea of building runways on icebergs in order to provide cover for the vital Atlantic convoys.

In 1995, 17 Japanese private firms, mostly shipbuilders and steelmakers, formed the Technological Research Association of Mega-Float with the support of the Japanese government.

The goal was to design and test a floating airport concept that, if successful, could be installed in Tokyo Bay -- and the Tokyo Mega-Float is possibly the most ambitious attempt of its kind to date.

The project called for a floating structure with a 4,000-meter-long runway, enough even for large airliners.

A smaller-scale model with a 1,000-meter-long runway was actually built and tests proved that the Mega Float was suitable for aircraft operations.

However, the project did not go ahead and the structure was later dismantled.

Similar proposals have been floated, quite literally in this case, for San Diego, a city whose international airport has little room left to expand in its current location.

Proposals to build a brand new two-runway international airport in the sea, a few miles off Point Loma have been put forward by two different companies, OceanWorks Development and Float Inc.

Whether it was the $20 billion price tag that proved a bit too expensive, or lingering doubts about the technical feasibility of the concept, the fact is neither project has materialized.

The San Diego projects have some similarities with the floating airport concept devised by Terry Drinkard, an American aeronautical engineer who has conducted extensive research in this field.

His scheme draws heavily from technologies and materials that have already been tested in the construction of deepwater oil rigs.

Drinkard's vision is for a full-fledged offshore "aerotropolis:" a floating structure that, as well as being able to handle medium-sized airliners (of the Boeing 737 or A320 types), would also host a whole range of economic and research activities, from experimentation with renewable energy technology to aquaculture and yachting.

This floating airport would be energy self-sufficient.

Power would be harvested from the waves, from the sun and through ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology that produces electricity by utilizing the temperature differences between depths of seawater.

Its structure would provide a base for oceanographic research and aquaculture and it would also double as a port and recreational marina, while its potential offshore status could attract a host of other economic activities.

A more daring version of the concept revives the idea, already put forward by a 1930 article in the magazine Popular Mechanics, of bridging the Atlantic with a chain of such floating airports.

This would enable all sorts of aircraft, including smaller airliners and private jets, to cross the ocean without the need to secure costly ETOPS (extended-range twin-engine operational standards) certification or take the more indirect northern route through Iceland and Newfoundland.

But the most realistic chances for a floating airport might be found in warmer waters.

Commander Bud Slabbaert, aviation consultant and Drinkard's partner in this project, says a small-scale version of the floating airport is currently being evaluated by several governments and infrastructure operators in the Caribbean.

It's a region heavily dependent on air transport where the lack of space is compounded by some of the islands' hilly or mountainous terrain.

Other aviation experts remain a lot more skeptical when consulted about the feasibility of the concept.

R. W. Mann, a consultant and former airline planning executive with several U.S. network airlines, thinks such an project is highly unlikely to get off the ground due to the relatively high cost and limited practical gain.

"Projects that involve building runways on the sea, such as those currently underway in the South China Sea, are driven primarily by non-economic considerations," he says.

It's true that airports are a massive investment -- even more so if they have to be built over water.

So it's no surprise that, despite the concept of a floating airport having being around for a long time, it's failed to come to fruition yet.

Despite decades of increasing air traffic and sprawling urban development across the world, airport relocation is still a rarity -- Hong Kong did it in 1998 and Munich did it in 1992.

In London, the controversy about the future of Heathrow airport, one of the most congested major air hubs anywhere in the world, has been raging on for years.

Some of the most remarkable proposals to sort out London's air capacity problem involve relocation to the Thames Estuary, where the River Thames meets the North Sea.

Renowned architect Norman Foster came up with the concept of a four-runway airport to be built from scratch on the Isle of Grain, a marshy area some 30 miles east of central London.

The project was popularly known as "Boris Island", because former London mayor Boris Johnson was one of its most solid backers, but it was rejected by the UK Airports Commission in 2014.

A rather more ambitious proposal was put forward by the architecture firm Gensler and Thames Estuary Research and Development (Testrad), calling for the airport to be built right in the middle of the estuary.

In this vision, a six-runway airport would be built over the waters of the Thames Estuary at a cost of nearly $63 billion.

The runways would stretch parallel to each other on both sides of a central core, where the main terminal would be located.

The airport would be connected to land through underwater tunnels for high-speed rail connections.

Gensler considered two options, explains Ian Mulcahey, the firm's managing director.

The first was a floating structure along the lines of the Tokyo Mega-Float, but the water in that area proved too shallow.

So it opted for a "polder"-like concept, where dykes would be used to delimit the area of the airport and water would then be drained to create a dry, flat surface.

"Although it might sound challenging when compared to building on dry land, by building the airport in a body of water we can get away with the lengthy and costly process of gathering the huge expanse of land you need for a project of this size", says Mulcahey.

He insists the final decision about London airport expansion has not yet been taken.

On June 30, the UK's Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced that following the UK voting to leave the European Union, such decision-making has been delayed until "at least October."

So while an extra runway at Heathrow and Gatwick is by far the most popular solution being debated, don't write off the Thames estuary gateway just yet.

What decades of studies about the feasibility of the floating airport concept has shown is that its ultimate development and application is not a matter of technology, but of getting the economics right.

The oil industry has demonstrated that when there is a pressing need -- and money to be made -- virtually any obstacle can be pushed aside.

The vast number of oil platforms defying the elements in some of the world's harshest environments are witness to it.

The same could one day be true of the floating airport.

Miquel Ros is an aviation blogger and consultant. An economist by background, he's worked for Flightglobal and Bloomberg. He currently covers the airline industry through Allplane.tv and collaborates with luxury travel website Trovel and other online media.

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Floating airports: Are they about to happen?

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(CNN) - Airports need a lot of space, but in the places most in need of air connections -- islands and large metropolises -- it's a commodity that's in short supply. In search of solutions, planners will sometimes turn to the sea. Huge land reclamation projects are an obvious route.

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Have you ever used or seen a microscope? Well most microscopes are made up of metals and cost millions of dollars!!! But this microscope called the Foldscope which is made of paper, a paper microscope!! The Foldscope is a an inexpensive paper microscope used like a microscope and weighs less than 10 grams and can survive being dropped, stepped on and being wet!! How can it be made and weigh so little?

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Researchers have implanted a device that is wireless into a paralyzed monkey's brain that helped it restore movement and that  helped it walk. How does this work?

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This will help you  because it sometimes when their is tiny shampoo left but its hard to get it out the bottle this will be your starting lineup. How does it work though?

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A newly developed invention stands to eradicate yet another one of life's small frustrations: getting that last bit of soap out of the bottle.

Researchers at Ohio State University have designed a texture that can repel "surfactants," a name given to the class of compounds that include soap, shampoos, detergents, and similar substances.

It is another addition to a growing field of "self-cleaning" surfaces, that can repel liquids such as water or oil, and have "anti-fouling" properties that can prevent the growth of mold and bacteria. Tiny nanostructures prevent substances from gripping these surfaces, leading the mess to bead up and roll right off.

The team published its results Monday in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

The texture designed by engineers Bharat Bhushan and Philip Brown can be used to line the insides of bottles of everyday soaps and cleaning products - a kind of substance that has been particularly difficult for this kind of research. If the research produces commercially viable products, this method could considerably cut down on the amount of these chemicals that are wasted each year. It could also keep old shampoo from crusting around the lid of the bottle.
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"It's what you'd call a first-world problem, right? 'I can't get all of the shampoo to come out of the bottle'," said Bhushan, a professor at Ohio State, and one of the researchers on the study, in a press release. "But manufacturers are really interested in this, because they make billions of bottles that end up in the garbage with product still in them."

Here's the mind-blowing part: the texture works because it keeps the soap from touching the inside the bottle.

Other materials can achieve a similar effect with different substances, including food containers such as ketchup bottles. But surfactants have some key characteristics that make these materials useless.

A food product like ketchup has a lot of water in it, and water molecules have high surface tension. They tend to stick to each other more than they stick to other surfaces. That is what makes water form dome-like droplets on surfaces - the molecules are all drawn to each other.
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Soaps lack this trait. They have low surface tension, and they stick to surfaces more easily. Bhushan and Brown devised a new structure for their texture, using nanoparticles made out of silica.

The structures, which look like heart-shaped corals, are spaced a few micrometers apart across the surface of the bottle. They branch out at the top, leaving a small layer of air between them and the surface of the bottle. This prevents the soap molecules from ever touching the bottle.

Bhushan told CNBC he got the idea when some people at Procter & Gamble told him they were interested in a shampoo bottle that would not let soap collect around the lid.

"I was speaking to Procter and Gamble, and I suggested self cleaning bottles - at the time I was thinking of bottles that remain free of dirt and other contaminants," Bhushan said. "And they said 'well we have been thinking about self-cleaning shampoo bottles, because the shampoo collects on the cap,' and that is how the work started. We have no relationship with them, but often I talk to people to figure out what it is we should be working on."

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This Bottle Will Help You Get the Last Drop of Shampoo

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A newly developed invention stands to eradicate yet another one of life's small frustrations: getting that last bit of soap out of the bottle. Researchers at Ohio State University have designed a texture that can repel "surfactants," a name given to the class of compounds that include soap, shampoos, detergents, and similar substances.

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Other designs envisage adding sleeping rooms in standard air craft cabins.A concept o sleeping pods that immerse premium travelers in a futuristic cocoon with adjustable light, sound and temperature.Could these planes become a reality?

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Astronauts will be able to reuse their tableware into the parts of new spaceships. On the ISS they will put their trash into the Positrusion Recycler that melts into spare parts. This machine is called the Ultimaker.
How does the Ultimaker turn plastic without adding carbon dioxide?

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It looks like something out of a horror movie. That's because it is! These zombies can infect others, too! They may even be in your own backyard!

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The Ocean Cleanup crew has been developing technology to get rid of the trash in our oceans. There is over 5 trillion pieces of trash in the ocean and the Ocean Cleanup crew is using one of their passive systems to get rid of the trash and they say that in 10 years half of the GPGP or Great Pacific Garbage Patch. On of the questions on the their page I found and want you to think about is:
Why move through the oceans, if the oceans can move through you?
How do you think this system works?

https://www.theoceancleanup.com/

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Izzy-Brain Chip Helps Paralyzed Man Feel His Fingers

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Izzy-Brain Chip Helps Paralyzed Man Feel His Fingers

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An implanted brain chip is helping Nathan Copeland feel his fingers for the first time in a decade. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/brain-chip-helps-paralyzed-man-feel-his-fingers-n665881  :3
What is the limit on this new technology?

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Do you want to read your dogs mind? Well here's the newest thing in Japan,  wearable techno dog clothes are a new hit for pet lovers all around the world!

You can get them in these colors: Green, Red, Pink, Blue , and many other colors, even Black!

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They're all landmark Japanese inventions from the 80s and 90s, symbols of an era when the Asian nation was a world leader in tech innovation.

But with the rise of Silicon Valley, and American tech giants such as Google and Apple, has seen Japan produce less era-defining tech over the past two decades.

That, says Professor Masahiko Tsukamoto, of Kobe University's Graduate School of Engineering, is about to change thanks to a new generation of young entrepreneurs, an uptick in international collaborations, and new partnerships with university scientists.

Japan's focus this time around is not on smart phones or gaming, but wearable chairs, smart glasses and dog communication devices.

In short, wacky wearable tech.

Wearable tech in Japan

In 2013, Japan sold 530,000 units of wearable tech devices, according to Yano Research Institute.

That figure is predicted to leapfrog to 13.1 million units in 2017.

Perhaps the best indication of the boom in this industry was the introduction of Tokyo's first Wearable Expo in 2015-- at launch, it was the largest wearable tech fair in the world with 103 exhibitors.

It has featured electronic kimonos, cat communication devices, and electronic gloves to record a pianist's finger work.

At the next show, from January 18 to 20, 2017, the organizers expect more than 200 exhibitors and 19,000 visitors.

"With better functionality, lighter components and smaller designs, wearing devices is now no longer a fantasy," says show director Yuhi Maezono. "Wearables are gathering attention as the next big growth market."

The dog whisperer

Inupathy is a dog harness slated to launch at the end of this year that will allow pet owners to communicate with their dogs.

As well as a heart monitor, the harness features noise-canceling technology which can isolate the animal's heartbeat and track its reactions to stimulus, such as food, games, people and toys.

With this data, the harness assesses a dog's mood and changes color to inform the owners.

Equipped with six LED lights, the collar glows blue to show calm, red for excitement, and displays a rainbow theme for happiness.

Joji Yamaguchi, CEO of Inupathy, was inspired by his Corgi, Akane, who was a nervous puppy. To better understand the dog's anxiety, the biologist developed Inupathy to monitor his heart rate.

"I always felt like I couldn't understand Akane very well and I wanted to get be closer to him," says Yamaguchi.

"Buddhism and old Japanese religion says every animals, plants, and even rocks have spirit inside. It's stressful when you can't solve problems that are upsetting them."

Yamaguchi expects wearable wellness tracking will have applications for humans, too.

"Personalization, of artificial intelligence will be a game-changer," says Yamaguchi.

"For instance, if you show a certain behavior before you start feeling depressed, predicting your depression from that behavior is extremely valuable for an individual. An AI that works personally for you will eventually make this possible."

A real life-saver

Archelis -- a wearable chair launched in Japan this year -- is also creating a buzz internationally.

A collaboration between Nitto mold factory, Chiba University, Japan Polymer Technology and Hiroaki Nishimura Design, in Japan, it was initially intended for surgeons, who need to rest their legs during long operations.

The chair enables its wearer to effectively sit down and stand up at the same time.

"The Archelis concept is very simple, like the simplicity of Columbus' egg," says Dr Hiroshi Kawahira, the surgeon behind the concept. "Long surgeries can result in back pain, neck pain, and knee pain -- especially for surgeons who are older."

Made of 3D-printed panels, Archelis does not require any electrical components or batteries.

The innovation is in the effective design: flexible carbon panels wrap around the buttocks, legs and feet to provide support and minimize pressure on joints.

The system stabilizes the ankles and knees, so the pressure from being upright is spread evenly across the shins and thighs.

Though the wearer appears to be standing, in fact, they are resting their back and legs while working on their feet.

Get to the point

Other wearables are on the smaller side.

Measuring about 3 inches long, BIRD is essentially a modern thimble that turns your fingertip into a magic wand.

Using algorithms to decode a user's intent, the device also features precise sensors that track direction, speed, and gestures.

The technology enables users to turn any surface into a smart screen, as well as interact with other smart devices.

Walking around at home, users can project a laptop screen onto a wall, switch on a coffee machine, read on any surface, and make online purchases with the point or swipe of a finger.

The developers -- Israel-based MUV Interactive and Japan-based Silicon Technology -- expect BIRD to be embraced by the education and corporate sectors, thanks to its ability to create collaborative presentations.

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They're all landmark Japanese inventions from the 80s and 90s, symbols of an era when the Asian nation was a world leader in tech innovation. But with the rise of Silicon Valley, and American tech giants such as Google and Apple, has seen Japan produce less era-defining tech over the past two decades.

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New Foldable Camera Drone Requires No FAA Approval, Can 'Add Spice' to Your Pics by giving amateur snappers access to new angles and shots. How can this drone add spice to our pics by giving amateur snappers access to new angles and shots?

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It looks like something out of a science fiction movie, but China's "straddle bus," which went for its first test drive this week, could have the potential to revolutionize transportation. Could this machine effect human life in a good way or in a bad way?

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This Robot Is Opening the Virtual Classroom Door For Kids. How is the virtual classroom alike or different from the regular classroom?

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This Robot Is Opening the Virtual Classroom Door For Kids

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There's a robot that's now opening the door back to the classroom when illness or other circumstances make it hard for kids to get to school.

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No Mans Sky took three years to code but it will take you a life time to play. With over 18 quintillion planets 99.99 percent of the game will not be explored. The code auto creates planets this code can help in the future in deleting unwanted posts on social media.

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This is a car invented by a woman who is confined to a wheelchair for people like her to drive. How does this car work?

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A woman in a wheelchair wanted to help people like her to become more independent, so she designed and is now manufacturing an innovative electric car that provides easy access and drivability, without ever getting out of your chair.

Stacy Zoern was an intellectual-property attorney in Austin, Texas when she came up with the idea. She quit her job and began to build her new company, Kenguru.

Just push a remote button and the back of the Kenguru car lifts up, and its automatic ramp lowers for immediate entry. Then, just drive the tiny vehicle away while seated in your wheelchair.

The environmentally friendly car has a top speed of 35 mph and is designed for getting around on neighborhood or city streets. It is steered by a motorbike-style handlebar and has room for just the driver.

Kenguru has secured millions of dollars from investors and the company projects the cars will sell for around $25,000.

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A woman in a wheelchair wanted to help people like her to become more independent, so she designed and is now manufacturing an innovative electric car that provides easy access and drivability, without ever getting out of your chair. Stacy Zoern, an intellectual-property attorney in Texas, quit her job to build her new company, Kenguru.

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A roll up TV screen is thin and flexible! How does this work?

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Hands-on with LG's screen that rolls up like a newspaper

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Samuel Burke takes a look at LG's prototype rollable screen at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show.

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Cool solar tiles that look like normal shingles but have a hidden superpower. They are actually solar panels!

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Tesla Ventures Into Solar Tiles for Homes

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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk proposed Friday that the electric car maker merge with SolarCity, creator of solar panels, to sell solar roof tiles for homes.

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A product called Liquiglide has substances that makes all the glue come out to the very last drop.

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This drone has two robotic arms and can carry objects that weigh up to 10 kilograms and can fly for more than 30 minutes.

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International Drone Conference and Exposition

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[PRODRONE] Dual Robot Arm Large-Format Drone PD6B-AW-ARM

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Prodrone Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce it has developed the PD6B-AW-ARM, a large-format drone equipped with two internally-developed robotic arms, enabling it to directly accomplish a variety of tasks. PRODRONE will showcase the new model at its booth at InterDrone, The International Drone Conference and Exposition, to be held September 7-9, 2016 in Las Vegas.

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A new technology is letting us fly at the edge of the atmosphere.

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Good way to save money and wear the same shoes for years, so that children who are poor in Africa have a chance for shoes that are great and wearable.

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If you were making a list of things that someone needed to survive and succeed in the world, well-fitting shoes wouldn't be at the top. But Kenton Lee was working with barefooted kids in Kenya and realized the importance of making this a priority.

"Wouldn't it be great," he pondered, "if there was a shoe that could adjust and expand - so that kids always had a pair of shoes that fit?"

Kenton Lee was working with barefooted kids in Kenya and realized the importance of well-fitting shoes. His incredible innovation? A Shoe That Grows.

Although kids may own shoes, it's hard when living in poverty to keep up with constant growth spurts. The Shoe That Grows can now accommodate children's ever-growing feet by expanding five sizes, making them last up to ten years.

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Determined to get started, Kenton became the Founder and Executive Director of Because International, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Nampa, Idaho. The company completed the prototype for their wonder shoe in 2013, and reached out to the world for crowdfunding of their invention. After hand delivering their first shipment of 100 shoes to little ones in Nairobi, Kenya, Kenton is eager to continue production.

Thanks to these shoes, children won't be so susceptible to soil-based diseases and infections, and they can always be ready to race wherever their legs may lead them.

Inspired to walk in Kenton's shoes? The donate button to protect children's feet is just a click away.

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Rasing old structures creates huge amounts of waste. StoneCycling transforms it into usable materials.

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One of the newest buildings on Gouvernestraat, a road in Rotterdam, is actually one of the oldest-but you wouldn't be able to tell from looking at it. By all accounts, the petite house looks thoroughly modern, thanks to its Spartan facade and lack of architectural flourishes. But it's actually composed of architectural waste salvaged from demolished structures, 15 tons of it to be exact.

For their own home, the architects Nina Aalbers and Ferry in 't Veld of Architectuur Maken wanted to build a structure that would blend in with the neighborhood fabric-so they chose to build with bricks, a material commonly used in Dutch houses. But instead of going ultra-traditional, they opted for an experimental, waste-based brick from the Amsterdam-based startup StoneCycling, a company founded in 2013 by Design Academy Eindhoven alum Tom van Soest and his childhood friend Ward Massa.

At Dutch Design Week, which runs from October 22 to 30, StoneCycling launched a new arm of their business: an interiors segment that offers dining tables, occasional tables, pendant lights, and floor lamps all made from waste-based materials. The line shows how cast-off industrial rubble can be transformed into elegant objects.

With this new, consumer-focused product line and its existing trade-oriented building materials business, Massa and van Soest are aiming to create a competitive market around materials destined for landfill-and incentivizing more sustainable design in the process. Here's how.

Van Soest graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven at the peak of the economic crisis in Europe. He noticed that a lot of buildings were vacant or under demolition, and found himself wondering what happens to these structures after the wrecking ball hits. Where does all of that rubble go? He started doing more research and found that in the Netherlands, the construction industry generates 65% of the country's waste -the largest proportion of the entire stream. He began tracking where that waste went, and soon learned that some of it was crushed and turned into material for paving roads or shipped overseas for disposal.

"The alternative [for handling construction waste], compared to our solution, is down cycling," Massa says. "The value goes down per ton. What we try to do is create products that represent more value than the current combined price of those waste streams."

He found himself wondering: Where does all of that rubble go?

Van Soest began to think about how he could apply circular-economy thinking -in which resources are reused as efficiently as possible-to the construction waste problem. Why not turn demolished buildings into new buildings? In a makeshift mad scientist lab, van Soest began testing ways to make a strong and beautiful material from rubble. He fitted an old gas tank with a rotating bender and used it to crush construction waste into an aggregate. After mixing in different waste streams-like ceramics, clay, and glass-and tweaking their proportions, he was able to achieve a stable material with different colors and textures. The differences in the aggregate's recipe and how the bricks are baked impacts the final hue, which ranges from purple to blue, red, green, black, and yellow. In the end, consumers get a beautiful, unique material that's gentler on the Earth than conventional bricks.

StoneCycling makes close to 20 different types of bricks today, which range from your everyday solid red variety to custom bricks and more ornamental versions, like terrazzo-esque Nougat that looks like it could have been ripped from a Memphis-era Shiro Kuramata interior. While the material van Soest invented has myriad applications-it could be used as cladding, interior finishes, surfaces, and in products-StoneCycling began with brick to jump-start the company.

"If we're making a material, we should make a product since that's easier to sell," Massa says. The two decided that bricks-the most basic building block-would be the easiest way to infiltrate what Massa calls a conservative industry. "If it's too futuristic, no one in the building industry will work with it. The building industry doesn't like risk. Our materials are innovative, but not so alien that people don't want to work with it."

"The building industry doesn't like risk."

Massa and van Soest have been building their business the old-fashioned way through word of mouth, exhibiting at design fairs (like Dutch Design Week), and setting up meetings with architecture firms eager to experiment with new techniques. Then, they incorporate feedback into what type of materials they would like to see in their projects and use that information to guide new formulations.

Arkitecture Maaken's house is the first completed building to use StoneCyling's products and is a proof of concept of sorts that shows other potential builders how the material works in the real world. StoneCycling also has a handful of other projects on the boards, like a restaurant in Antwerp that's scheduled to open in November, an apartment building in Amsterdam, and a couple of projects in London. As much as the company is eager to work on one-off projects, it's also keen on building at scale and is in conversation with high-end fashion and food brands that have expressed interest in adding StoneCycling to their corporate materials database.

"The advantage of this approach is this idea of building with waste is new," Massa says. "People are skeptical about this. What we need are architects, clients, and developers that want to make a statement and those who have a budget and high ambition. If we get our products in there, it helps to spread the message and hopefully it will trickle down the pyramid and more people will use it."

StoneCycling wants to take its material mainstream, but that's an endeavor that will take time and a shift in thinking. As it stands, the building industry is archaic-and most developers err on the side of caution when it comes to incorporating new techniques and materials, even if they are sound from an engineering perspective and better for the environment.

For example, many structural engineers tout timber as a more sustainable way to construct tall buildings, but the technique hasn't made it into building codes. That puts the onus on individual architecture firms and contractors to prove that it will meet the same standards as traditional building techniques -a very costly endeavor. Massa sees this as a hurdle for StoneCycling's growth.

"The current model of responsibilities doesn't facilitate innovation," Massa says. "If I develop a building, I pay a building company to build it, and the building company is responsible for its quality. The side effect is that they're not being pushed to use new materials because new material forms a risk. That's a difficulty we see when it comes to financial responsibility. If you can build with something that gives you 10 or 20 times more confidence than a new material, you'll pick the old material."

Shifting the perception around waste materials is one of the first steps to wider adoption of StoneCycling's products. So far, the company has caught the eye of a handful of designers, but it's eager to capture the minds of everyday consumers, too, as is shown in the furnishings collection.

"What we're aiming with the interior collection is if someone eats dinner at a waste table or turns on a lamp made from waste, the concept of being surrounded by waste becomes cool or acceptable," Massa says. "If we start seeing waste as valuable, it opens up a range of possibilities."

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This Dutch Company Turns Demolished Buildings Into Beautiful Materials

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One of the newest buildings on Gouvernestraat, a road in Rotterdam, is actually one of the oldest-but you wouldn't be able to tell from looking at it. By all accounts, the petite house looks thoroughly modern, thanks to its Spartan facade and lack of architectural flourishes.

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A mobile app so that bullied kids have somewhere to sit during lunch.

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You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Hampton has been there. She's an 11th-grader from Sherman Oaks, Calif., and the creator of a new app called Sit With Us.

Hampton recently spoke about the app with All Things Considered host Audie Cornish. A transcript of their conversation follows, edited for clarity.
This is a great idea, but I understand it kind of comes from a sad place, right? I mean, essentially because you had a pretty lonely experience at lunchtime.
Yeah, I did. At my old school, I was completely ostracized by all of my classmates, and so I had to eat lunch alone every day. When you walk into the lunchroom and you see all the tables of everyone sitting there and you know that going up to them would only end in rejection, you feel extremely alone and extremely isolated, and your stomach drops. And you are searching for a place to eat, but you know that if you sit by yourself, there'll be so much embarrassment that comes with it because people will know and they'll see you as the girl who has nowhere to sit. So there's so many awful feelings that come along with it.
You eventually changed schools, and you did make friends in this new school. But it sounds like you couldn't shake that feeling, right - that experience.
Well, I felt that if I was thriving in a new school but didn't do anything about the people who feel like this every single day, then I'm just as bad as the people who watched me eat alone. I felt like, with my story, it was my job to stand up and do something about all the kids who feel like this every day. And I wanted to create something that would address bullying, but in a positive way.
So you get this idea for an app, and how did you want it to work?
The way that it works is it's a free lunch-planning app where kids can find lunch tables if they feel like they have nowhere to go. Pretty much, kids can sign up as ambassadors for a Sit With Us club and agree to post open lunches so that anyone who has the app and has nowhere to go can find a table and, hopefully, make some new friends.
Now, it seems like the kind of kid who would do that would be the kind of person you could walk up to and say, "Hey, can I sit with you?" So why have an app? Why not the low-tech version, which is just ask to sit down?
Because the way it was at my old school, I tried many times to reach out to someone, but I was rejected many times. And you feel like you're labeling yourself as an outcast when you ask to join a table with someone you don't know. This way, it's very private. It's through the phone. No one else has to know. And you know that you're not going to be rejected once you get to the table.
So your app launched [last] week. Have you had a chance to see the app in action just yet?
So far, the results have been very, very positive. I had my first club meeting the other day, and everyone was very excited. And people are already posting open lunches at my school. So I'm very excited that things are already kicking off with a great start.

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Teen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have To Eat Alone

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You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Hampton has been there.

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An app that help you find some where to sit is needed to include everyone

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You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Hampton has been there. She's an 11th-grader from Sherman Oaks, Calif., and the creator of a new app called Sit With Us.

Hampton recently spoke about the app with All Things Considered host Audie Cornish. A transcript of their conversation follows, edited for clarity.
This is a great idea, but I understand it kind of comes from a sad place, right? I mean, essentially because you had a pretty lonely experience at lunchtime.
Yeah, I did. At my old school, I was completely ostracized by all of my classmates, and so I had to eat lunch alone every day. When you walk into the lunchroom and you see all the tables of everyone sitting there and you know that going up to them would only end in rejection, you feel extremely alone and extremely isolated, and your stomach drops. And you are searching for a place to eat, but you know that if you sit by yourself, there'll be so much embarrassment that comes with it because people will know and they'll see you as the girl who has nowhere to sit. So there's so many awful feelings that come along with it.
You eventually changed schools, and you did make friends in this new school. But it sounds like you couldn't shake that feeling, right - that experience.
Well, I felt that if I was thriving in a new school but didn't do anything about the people who feel like this every single day, then I'm just as bad as the people who watched me eat alone. I felt like, with my story, it was my job to stand up and do something about all the kids who feel like this every day. And I wanted to create something that would address bullying, but in a positive way.
So you get this idea for an app, and how did you want it to work?
The way that it works is it's a free lunch-planning app where kids can find lunch tables if they feel like they have nowhere to go. Pretty much, kids can sign up as ambassadors for a Sit With Us club and agree to post open lunches so that anyone who has the app and has nowhere to go can find a table and, hopefully, make some new friends.
Now, it seems like the kind of kid who would do that would be the kind of person you could walk up to and say, "Hey, can I sit with you?" So why have an app? Why not the low-tech version, which is just ask to sit down?
Because the way it was at my old school, I tried many times to reach out to someone, but I was rejected many times. And you feel like you're labeling yourself as an outcast when you ask to join a table with someone you don't know. This way, it's very private. It's through the phone. No one else has to know. And you know that you're not going to be rejected once you get to the table.
So your app launched [last] week. Have you had a chance to see the app in action just yet?
So far, the results have been very, very positive. I had my first club meeting the other day, and everyone was very excited. And people are already posting open lunches at my school. So I'm very excited that things are already kicking off with a great start.

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Teen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have To Eat Alone

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You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Hampton has been there.

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A new drone is able to both drive on the ground and fly.

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OFFICIAL: Autonomous AT Panther Air/Ground Robot

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Advanced Tactics Inc. has created the world's most mobile surveillance and commercial package-delivery robot; it is Air and Ground mobile. Now ready for production. Order now at www.advancedtacticsinc.com/panther-suas-ground-robot-on-sale/

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A Circret Bracelet for a wearable phone on your skin is amazing

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Cicret Bracelet lets you use your mobile devices on your skin.

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Technology can be awkward. Our pockets are weighed down with ever-larger smartphones that are a pain to pull out when we're in a rush. And attempts to make our devices more easily accessible with smartwatches have so far fallen flat. But what if a part of your body could become your computer, with a screen on your arm and maybe even a direct link to your brain?

Artificial electronic skin (e-skin) could one day make this a possibility. Researchers are developing flexible, bendable and even stretchable electronic circuits that can be applied directly to the skin. As well as turning your skin into a touchscreen, this could also help replace feeling if you've suffered burns or problems with your nervous system.

The simplest version of this technology is essentially an electronic tattoo. In 2004, researchers in the US and Japan unveiled a pressure sensor circuit made from pre-stretched thinned silicon strips that could be applied to the forearm. But inorganic materials such as silicon are rigid and the skin is flexible and stretchy. So researchers are now looking to electronic circuits made from organic materials (usually special plastics or forms of carbon such as graphene that conduct electricity) as the basis of e-skin.

Typical e-skin consists of a matrix of different electronic components - flexible transistors, organic LEDs, sensors and organic photovoltaic (solar) cells - connected to each other by stretchable or flexible conductive wires. These devices are often built up from very thin layers of material that are sprayed or evaporated onto a flexible base, producing a large (up to tens of cm ²) electronic circuit in a skin-like form.

Much of the effort to create this technology in the last few years has been driven by robotics and a desire to give machines human-like sensing capabilities. We now have e-skin devices that can detect approaching objects and measure temperature and applied pressure. These can help robots work more safely by being more aware of their surroundings (and any humans that might get in the way). But if integrated with wearable technology, they could do the same for humans, detecting, for example, harmful movements during sport.

The technology has also led to the creation of bendable screens, while at least one company is hoping to turn the skin into a touchscreen using sensors and a pico-projector rather than a display.

But will we one day come to build this technology directly into our bodies, and how common will it be? The problem with organic electronics at the moment is that they aren't very reliable and give relatively poor electronic performance. Just like real skin, the e-skin developed so far eventually develops wrinkles. These cause its layers to come apart and the circuits to fail. Plus, atoms in organic materials are more chaotically organized than the inorganic materials used to make traditional electronics. This means electrons move 1,000 times slower in organic materials, so devices made from them will operate much more slowly and wouldn't deal as well with the heat the circuits generate.

Bio-compatibility

The other big issue is how to integrate e-skin with the human body so that it doesn't cause medical problems and so that it can interface with the nervous system. Organic materials are carbon-based (like our bodies) so in some senses are more likely to be biocompatible and not rejected by the body. But carbon particles are good at passing through the cells that make up our body and this would likely to lead to inflammation, generating an immune response that could even, according to certain unverified theories, generate tumors.

However, scientists have already had some success linking electronic devices to the nervous system. Researchers at the University of Osaka are leading pioneering research to develop a brain implant from a flexible matrix of organic thin-film transistors that could be activated just by thinking. The difficulty is that such an invasive approach could lead to further problems, especially when we start testing the technology on humans.

In coming years we are are likely to see prototype e-skin devices gaining momentum in the form of wearable body sensors, and potentially as a way to harvest energy from the body's movement. What will take much longer are the more complicated circuits such as those found in smartphones. And the other big question we've yet to answer is how many people will accept permanent or semi-permanent electronic implants. Would you be willing to effectively become a cyborg?

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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The Next Wearable Technology Could Be Your Skin

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Technology can be awkward. Our pockets are weighed down with ever-larger smartphones that are a pain to pull out when we're in a rush. And attempts to make our devices more easily accessible with smartwatches have so far fallen flat. But what if a part of your body could become your computer, with a screen ...

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A Real Life Lego House made From Recycled Waste. AMAZING!!

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This house might look like it's made from bricks and mortar, but it's actually made from plastic. And not just any plastic - waste plastic that's hard to recycle.

Conceptos Plásticos is a slightly simple name for a small start-up that's hoping to achieve so much. The Colombian business transforms plastic and rubber waste into permanent and temporary housing, shelters, classrooms and community halls.

Not only does this divert waste from landfills, but it provides much-needed building materials for impoverished communities in Colombia.

"We are mitigating global warming and helping to close the extreme poverty gap with a solution that has a high, social, environmental and economic impact," says co-founder Oscar Andres Mendez.

"The plastic waste we recycle is melted and poured into a mould to produce plastic blocks that work like Lego pieces, allowing whole communities and families to play a part in the easy constructing of their own homes."

The materials are also fire and earthquake resistant, and Mendez is keen to provide training for communities to construct their own buildings.

"A house for one family takes four people, with no construction experience, just five days to build," he adds. "A shelter for 14 families takes 15 people, with no construction experience, only 10 days to build."

The social start-up recently won $300,000 at the final of a global competition called 'The Venture,' which is run by Chivas Regal and aims to find the most innovative start-ups across the world.

Thanks to the cash injection, Mendez is hoping to develop his business.

"We are going to give solutions to many people," he says. "We will improve all of our processes and increase our capacity. We want to replicate our business model in other countries."

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These Real Life Lego Houses Are Made Of Waste Plastic And Housing The Homeless

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This house might look like it's made from bricks and mortar, but it's actually made from plastic. And not just any plastic - waste plastic that's hard to recycle. Conceptos Plásticos is a slightly simple name for a small start-up that's hoping to achieve so much.

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This new technology is helping paralyzed monkeys walk again are humans next?

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Paralysis was once thought to be a permanent condition, marked by broken signals between the brain and spinal cord that could never be fixed. But in the past few years, a better understanding of the brain's neural wiring has allowed scientists to toy with the idea that this permanent condition can indeed be treated by restoring movement in lost areas. Now, researchers have taken another step forward: A new, tiny wireless device, implanted into a paralyzed monkey, allowed it to regain control of previously paralyzed areas of its legs, enabling it to walk again. This success represents another step in the path to creating similar devices for humans.

When a person becomes paralyzed, most - but not all - of the neurons that help signal muscles to move are broken. This keeps the brain from being able to send signals to certain muscle groups telling them to move. But if the body had a way of strengthening the few intact neurons, they might be able to do the heavy lifting themselves and restore the ability to move.

In the new study, researchers implanted tiny wireless devices into the brains of two monkeys that had been purposefully paralyzed -- each lost the use of a hind leg. The device recorded electrical signals from the brain's motor cortex, which controls movement, and sent them to a computer. The computer then translated those signals into a language that electrodes -- connected to a group of neurons in the spinal cord -- could understand. Their work was published this week in the journal .

As seen in the video, the monkeys were able to move their paralyzed legs in conjunction with the other four as they walked. And unlike similar technologies that require a person (or monkey) to be somehow wired to a computer, this new technology is completely wireless. The monkeys wear a backpack which interprets and sends off the brain signals.

This success is just one of several achievements made in the last few years as scientists continue to better understand how electrical signals in the brain enable movement. But it's unique, and not just because it ditches the usual cords: In an accompanying commentary on the study, Newcastle University neuroscientist Andrew Jackson points out that the new device is a "closed-loop stimulation", which interprets brain signals in real time. The devices that are currently in use in humans with paralysis are open-looped, meaning they require repeated stimulation to excite or wake up the neurons that may have survived the patient's injury. That strengthens those neurons, but the closed-loop system strengthens the entire network connection of neurons between the brain and spinal cord.

But while this is a successful proof-of-concept experiment, work on creating a brain-computer interface suitable for humans is far from complete. The system used here is successful in allowing for broader muscle movements, like moving a leg to walk, but it would be less successful at allowing for more fine tuned movements like a small change in direction or enabling a person to balance. As research forges ahead, scientists will need both a better understanding of how these fine tuned movements work and how to trigger them with wireless devices.

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Paralysis was once thought to be a permanent condition, marked by broken signals between the brain and spinal cord that could never be fixed. But in the past few years, a better understanding of the brain's neural wiring has allowed scientists to toy with the idea that this permanent condition can indeed be treated by restoring movement in lost areas.

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Inspector Robot: Panther is a Drone That can Drive and Fly.

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What, exactly, is the best body for a robot? Flying is energy intensive, and most commercial drones can only go about 20 minutes on battery power. Driving on wheels is more energy-efficient, but limits the robot purely to what it can find on the ground. The Panther drone, by Advanced Tactics, combines both into one tidy package.

It drives:

And can do it all in high winds, and while carrying a maximum of 15 pounds. Its makers boast that it is ideal for pipeline inspection, and with the ability to travel almost 60 miles on the ground, as well as hopping over small obstacles, it's certainly nimble enough for some field work.

Advanced Tactics first tested a version of the Panther in 2012, and last week released a video of the new, commercial model driving and flying as part of a presale promotion. The Panther is an interesting, novel drone design, but it's also a test case for Advanced Tactics far more interesting vehicle: the larger, human-carrying Black Knight Transformer. With a similar wheels-and-rotors configuration, the Transformer was floated in 2014 as a possible medical evacuation vehicle for the military.

For now, Advanced Tactics appears to focus on the Panther. If the little drone takes off, maybe someday the larger, drone-inspired flying truck will, too.

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Inspector robot: Panther is a driving, flying drone

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Octobots are  soft robots designed by Harvard. Why did they choose the form of an octopus?

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This "octobot" is made entirely out of soft materials. A pneumatic network (red) is embedded within the octobot's body and hyperelastic actuator arms (blue).

Credit: Ryan Truby, Michael Wehner, and Lori Sanders, Harvard University

A rubbery little "octobot" is the first robot made completely from soft parts, according to a new study. The tiny, squishy guy also doesn't need batteries or wires of any kind, and runs on a liquid fuel.

The octopus-like robot is made of silicone rubber, and measures about 2.5 inches (6.5 centimeters) wide and long. The researchers say soft robots can adapt more easily to some environments than rigid machines, and this research could lead to autonomous robots that can sense their surroundings and interact with people.

Conventional robots are typically made from rigid parts, which makes them vulnerable to harm from bumps, scrapes, twists and falls. These hard parts can also hinder them from being able to squirm past obstacles. Increasingly, scientists are building robots made of soft, elastic plastic and rubber, designs inspired by octopuses, starfish and worms. These soft robots are generally more resistant to damage, and can wriggle past many of the obstacles that impair hard robots. [ The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created]

However, soft robots were previously limited by rigid batteries or wires needed to power the bots. Now, "we are very excited to present a completely soft, untethered robot," said study co-lead author Michael Wehner, a research associate in materials science and mechanical engineering at Harvard University. "As the field of soft robotics continues to rapidly expand, we feel that our work will allow the field to rapidly move forward in a whole new direction."

The octobot has eight arms (hence the name) that are pneumatically driven by steady streams of oxygen gas. This gas is given off by liquid hydrogen peroxide fuel after it chemically reacts with platinum catalysts.

The 0.2-ounce (6 grams) robot is controlled using tiny 3D-printed networks of plumbing. Whereas conventional microelectronic circuits shuffle electrons around wires, scientists in recent years have begun developing microfluidic circuitry that can shuffle fluids around pipes. These devices can theoretically perform any operation a regular electronic microchip can, previous research suggested.

The octobot's microfluidic controller is filled with the liquid hydrogen peroxide fuel. As the fuel gives off oxygen, pressure from the gas builds up in the controller and eventually causes some valves to open and others to close, inflating chambers in half the robot's arms and forcing them to move. Pressurized gas then builds up once more, triggering valve openings and closures that make the other robot's arms move.

So far, the octobot can only wave its arms. The scientists are now working on developing completely soft machines that are more complex and can propel themselves, and perhaps swim, Wehner said. "Integrated sensors would also allow reaction to the bot's environment," Wehner told Live Science. [ Photos: Amazing Tech Inspired by the Octopus]

There is no on-off switch for this current version of the octobot - it activates once it gets filled with fuel, Wehner said. Future bots with more complex controllers and sensors could be envisioned with on-off switches, he noted.

The octobot can currently run for about 4 to 8 minutes. The researchers said they can probably improve the bot's run-time using more sophisticated designs that better control how the fuel is used.

"We foresee soft robots expanding the role of robots in human-populated environments - human-robot interaction," Wehner said.

In addition, "a separate but very interesting potential application for this type of robot is in high-risk, dangerous areas such as search and rescue," Wehner said. "The total material cost for the octobot is just over $2, and fuel costs approximately 5 cents per fill. One could envision a scenario in which 100 bots are deployed to investigate a scene, anticipating that 80 would be destroyed."

The scientists detailed their findings online today (Aug. 24) in the journal Nature.

Original article on Live Science.

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Soft, Rubbery 'Octobot' Can Move Without Batteries

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