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Local students honored at colleges

Edit Worcester Telegram 03 Jun 2016
ITHACA, N.Y. — Ithaca College senior Brandon Esteves of Shrewsbury, a senior at Ithaca College, took home third place in the college's annual Business Plan Competition.Esteves' plan "Sunshine Technology," which develops processing pedals for guitars and other electronic instruments, won $5,000.Esteves and his team built a prototype ......

LEGOs connect with nature at Kauai’s National Tropical Botanical Garden

Edit The Examiner 03 Jun 2016
A larger-than-life colorful Monarch butterfly, consisting of 60,500 LEGO bricks, is just one of 14 sculptures ranging from 12 inches to seven feet standing amid the endless tropical and exotic foliage ... He follows his plans by building the prototype with LEGO parts. According to Kenney, “Once I have a prototype that I like, I’ll rebuild it, then glue it, while using the prototype as my template....

New imaging system for simultaneous acquisition of color and near-infrared images (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
Therefore, the data acquired by CFA based image sensors are mosaic ... With this background, the group of Masatoshi Okutomi at Tokyo Tech and researchers at Olympus R&D; have developed a prototype of a new imaging system for the simultaneous acquisition of RGB and NIR images using a single image sensor ... The arrangement of the new CFA is shown in the Fig ... Figure 2.Overview of the developed prototype system....

Modular micro apartments to solve student housing issues in Berlin (Arup Group Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
The project was designed following a modular construction concept for micro apartments. The so-called 'technically optimized prototype' (TOP) can be implemented with different building materials including concrete, steel and also timber, which allows for a larger circle of potential bidders for the construction of the building ... Another possible application of the modular construction concept could be to provide refugee accommodation....

TTI Recognized for Embassy Protection, Freight Shuttle Innovations (Texas A&M; Transportation Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
Working with officials from the U.S ... 'We designed a prototype that has been crash tested at the Riverside Campus,' says TTI Assistant Agency Director Dean Alberson, manager of the Institute's Crashworthy Structures Program ... The privately funded Freight Shuttle, now in the prototype stage, is an electric powered system that could revolutionize the way we move freight using proven technologies combined in a new way....

3D Printing Projects

Edit Twit TV 03 Jun 2016
Hosted by Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Bryan Burnett. From idea to prototype, we go over the does and don'ts of 3D Printing. New episodes every Monday at 6.00pm Eastern / 3.00pm Pacific / 22.00 UTC and Thursday at 2.00pm Eastern / 11.00am Pacific / 18.00 UTC ... ....

Google's Self-Driving Car Can Now Honk Its Own Horn

Edit Information Week 03 Jun 2016
Google is testing out the horn on its self-driving car prototypes to make others more aware of its presence or to annoy other drivers -- beep, beep, beep, beep, yeah! ... ....

Prototype House Co-Founder Matthew Bordy Shares Prototyping and Product Development Tips at a Miami Start ...

Edit PR Newswire 03 Jun 2016
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), patent fillings worldwide have been steadily increasing since 2013. Prototyping and product development are trending topics for both entrepreneurs and company ... ....

Navy researchers develop ‘Iron Man’ style in-helmet HUD for divers

Edit Crunch 03 Jun 2016
 Researchers at the U.S. Navy have created a high-tech, in-helmet display for divers in the service that looks like something out of “Iron Man” — perhaps one of Stark’s early prototypes. The invention could make divers safer and more effective, and it definitely looks cool ... ....

Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics

Edit BBC News 03 Jun 2016
Just 2mm across and finer than a human hair, the tiny device can magnify nanoscale objects and gives a sharper focus than top-end microscope lenses ... Shapes on the surface of this lens are smaller than the wavelength of light involved ... The prototypes lenses are 2mm across, but only because of the limitations of the Harvard manufacturing equipment ... The team is already working on beating the performance of its first prototypes....

49ers LT Joe Staley, great athletes and complacency

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 03 Jun 2016
Joe Staley has earned five straight Pro Bowl berths and his new head coach, Chip Kelly, has termed him the prototype NFL left tackle because he possess size, athleticism and ......

The Politics of Comfort at 30,000 Feet

Edit CityLab 03 Jun 2016
Last December, one firm released a prototype of a seat that adapts to the curve of individual passengers’ spines ... This week, United has set its sights on optimizing the sleep experience for its higher-paying customers, debuting prototypes for Polaris, a revamped “lounge to landing” experience that, Munoz said, aims to “make the weary traveler a relic of the past” for international business-class flights ... (The proposal failed.)....

Billionaire’s Leshi Resumes Trading After Six-Month Suspension

Edit Bloomberg 03 Jun 2016
Trading volume hit the highest level since the shares were listed in August 2010 ... Jia is backing the electric-car startup company Faraday Future, which showed off prototypes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the Beijing motor show ... Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal....
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