Important Innovations

Intense Retail Wars Fire-Up Source:  Amazon Innovation and Ingenuity Prevail e-Commerce giant Amazon's promised delivery of one-day shipping is expected to seismically shake the global retail industry.  Just in April through June of 2019, Amazon is pumping $800 million into its next day, package delivery project.  Amazon's one day delivery project is designed to turnaround its slowing sales growth with the kind of easy, quick delivery that's at the top of your shopping list. It's a retail strategy of innovation and ingenuity to lure customers. Bricks vs. Online Retailing Another battlefront has formed in the bricks vs. online retail wars.  Bricks and mortar retailers like Walmart have gotten a lot more innovative and competitive.  To the point that Amazon is racing to reproduce their physical stores for top selling product lines like books and electronics.  Amazon also is finalizing plans to let its customers return Amazon products easily at Kohls department

Squishy, Droppable Robot for Search and Rescue Missions Source:  University of California - Berkeley Invented by Engineers at UC Berkeley It's a round, mobile sensor robot that's capable of surviving a drop of 600 feet.  The robot is designed for search and rescue missions in disaster areas.  It's the invention of engineers at UC Berkeley.  For more details, go to Important Innovations Collection: Squishy Robots from UC Berkeley : Disaster Bots Source:  Squishy Robotics For Search and Rescue Missions Round, squishy robots capable of being dropped 600 feet and su...

May Be World's Ultimate Toothbrush  Green, Clean and Neat Tooth Cleaning Robotic Tech from UPENN A cross-disciplinary team of scientists from UPENN Dentistry, Engineering and Biology have developed this new micro-bot system to clean teeth of plaque and potential decay.  They call it CARs.  It's a crew of microscopic robotics cleaners for your teeth. A first of its kind. For more details go to Important Innovations Collection: Tiny, Robotic Teeth Cleaners : Army of Microrobots Wipe Out Dental Plaque Source: UPENN's Microrobot Teeth Cleaners New Innovation from the University of Pennsy...

Shape-Changing Wing that Adjusts to Flight Conditions Game-changing Aviation Technology and Fabrication Engineers at NASA and MIT have created a radical, new airplane wing that changes shape for optimal functionality during takeoff, landing, cruising and maneuvering.  Behind the innovation is a new fabrication process that holds promise for other engineering construction such as bridges and blades for wind turbines.  This is important new innovation.  For more details go to Important Innovations Collection: NASA-MIT Radical Airplane Wing : Shape-Shifting in Flight Source:  NASA New Way of Fabricating NASA and MIT engineers have created a radically new kind of airplane ...

Self-Braking Shopping Cart Source:  Ford Europe No More Runaway Carts at the Grocery Store Runaway shopping carts pose a danger to cars and customers at grocery stores.  Ford has invented a self-braking shopping cart that stops automatically to prevent damage. Pre-Collision Assist System The cart has a version of Ford's Pre-Collision Assist system. In cars, the system has a forward-facing camera and radar to detect vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists on the road and automatically applies the brakes if the driver doesn't respond to warnings.  The new shopping cart has a sensor to scan for people and objects and applies the brakes when a potential collision is detected. Ford says the self-brakeing cart can help prevent damage to cars, store shelves and customers.  They add it will help make grocery shopping less stressful for parents of little children. Prototype & Intervention Ford says one of the reasons they designed the cart was to demonstrate how important Pr

Trash Collector for Space Source:  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tiny, Semi-Autonomous CubeSats Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing tiny, inexpensive CubeSats to capture and destroy debris in space.  There are more than 129 million pieces of space debris.  And they pose a danger to space vehicles because they travel at such high velocities.  For a news blog on the satellite system, go to Important Innovations Collection: CubeSats Catch Space Debris : Tiny, Semi-Autonomous, Cheap Source:  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New Invention:  Trash Collector for Space Researchers at Re...

Footprint Discovered from Nearly 16,000 Years Ago Scientists have just discovered in Chile the imprint of a human footprint that dates back 15,600 years.  The footprint has been authenticated.  It is the oldest footprint found in the Americas.  For more go to Important Innovations Collection: Oldest Foottprint Discovered in Americas : 15,600 Year Old Discovery You Can Step Back Nearly 16,000 Years This is a footprint from some one walking or running 15,600 years ago...

Massachusetts' Brayton Point Power Station Towers Demolished in 2 Seconds Source: Stock Image of Brayton Point, MA. New Wind Energy Coming to Replace Coal Fired Plants Brayton Point in Somerset, Massachusetts on Mount Hope Bay was the last coal-fired generating plant in MA.  It stopped production in 2017 as environmental groups pushed for cleaner sources of energy generation. Landmark to Old Energy Demolished Today its two, 500 foot cooling towers were demolished by controlled explosions in two seconds. The plant had burned coal since 1963. Anyone who has travelled the I-195 corridor through Fall River, MA over the Braga Bridge going to Cape Cod or south to New York City is very familiar with these landmarks of old energy. They are now gone and are making way for new energy systems like wind. New Base of Wind Energy The new owner of the property is Commercial Development Co.  They say they plan to convert the property into a multi-use facility, primarily to support

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Plogging - Swedish Way to Run &  Pick-UpTrash Global Craze - Run and Save Environment This is a great way to combine running and help the environment. Plogging combines jogging and picking up trash on your route that you find along the way. As runners, we do this but this gives it structure.  The idea comes from Sweden and it is becoming a global craze for people who care about the environment and love to work out in the outdoors and care about the environment. World Records Are Coming In The combo of running and picking up trash along the way was started by Swede Arik Ahlstrom.  He calls it a pick and jog.  But his program has achieved a lot more than that.  The innovator says 10,000 are doing it regularly in India and 4000 in one day in Mexico City. This is about running with purpose and disposing of plastics along the way.  This is a great exercise for joggers.   It helps you to jog,.  By picking up the trash, you bend and squat. That burns more calories. I'm going

MarsQuake - NASA First Source:  NASA's InSight Interplanetary News NASA's robot on Mars InSight and its instrumentation have measured and documented a seismic event on Mars - a ground tremor that they're calling a MarsQuake.  This is the first time that seismological activity has been detected on a planet other than Earth.  It's an interplanetary first and big news.  For a news blog, go to Important Innovations Collection: MarsQuake : NASA Documents Seismological Activity on Mars Source:  NASA InSight Interplanetary First NASA's robotic probe InSight has detect...

Fun Braille Learning Game Source:  LEGO Braille Bricks Humanitarian Innovation This is inspiring innovation.  The LEGO Braille Bricks Project.  Braille Bricks is a game, a play tool to help visually impaired and blind children learn braille, while having some fun, just playing a game. This is important because it's fun for kids and many visually impaired people are migrating to audiobooks, which don't include the full library of books that braille does for users.  As a journalist who donated many hours of narrating news and books for the blind, I think this is important news. LEGO The Braille Bricks include all studs used in Braille.  It's still compatible with standard LEGO systems.  Each brick has a printed character or letter to let sighted members of the family and friends know what's happening and play with the visually impaired child.  This new LEGO will be available to select institutions in  2020. Inspiration for This Innovation This i

NYU Researchers Invent New AI Test for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Source:  US Army New Test Based on Speech Patterns The new, artificial intelligence enabled test for PTSD has an accuracy rate of 89%.   Until now, physicians have diagnosed PTSD based on self-referrals and one-on-one conversations.  This new computer program analyses the patient's speech patterns for indications of the disorder such as unclear speech and a lifeless tone.  For more details on this, go to Important Innovations Collection: PTSD: New Detection System - Speech : AI Identifies PTSD Based on Snippets of Speec h Source:  US Army Medical Tech Breakthrough from NYU School of Medicine Researchers a...