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Innovative Face Masks for the Hearing Impaired
The masks have a transparent section over the mouth for the hearing impaired to read lips A senior at Eastern Kentucky University, majoring in deaf education, has created innovative new face
Covid19: how business could emerge afterward
The Covid_19 crisis is an opportunity to focus on how business play a role in building a more resilient economic system for the next crisis.
OPEN SOURCE PROTECTIVE SUIT TECH PACK & PATTERNS
An open source protective suit now available. The first medically reviewed open source gown design by Open Source The Open Source Medical Supplies medical team, headed by Guy Cavalcanti, has
Intensive-care pod within a shipping container
Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals by Dezee.com Named Connected Units for Respiratory
The circularity gap is not closing (not yet)
The circularity gap is not closing. Not yet!
Bjork & AI create music that changes with the weather
Bjork & AI create music as Alex Braga did. The composition is based on the weather and it will be played continuously iat the Sister City Hotel in New York.
Giorgio Metta, the “father” of iCub, will be the new Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
He was one of the protagonists of MFR19, he is just over a meter tall and has the features of a 4-year-old boy: he is iCUB and soon he will have a new “father”, the engineer Giorgio Metta who will take on the direction of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa from January 2020.
CNR and ENEA research study: Combating cancer with substances contained in grape seeds:
Grape berries capable of blocking the growth of cancer cells: this is what has been shown by some research conducted by the National Research Council (CNR), by ENEA and from the University Federico II of Naples to combat one of the most aggressive and drug-resistant tumors, masotelioma.
An artificial pancreas that constantly monitors insulin and glucose
During the Opening Conference of MFR19, the “opensource artificial pancreas” projected by Sara Krugman, an American designer specialized in health care design who makes technology a useful tool to improve the quality of life of people with type 1 diabetes
3D-Printed Bulletproof Plastic is a reality
Researchers 3D-Printed Plastic Cubes With Complex Patterns That Make them Bulletproof The technology continues to evolve, but 3D printing is still mostly used for creating prototypes or parts that won’t
XR4all, the European call for funding proposals for virtual reality projects
A European project that aims to create a a real “XR Community” as a network to bring together developers and financiers: here’s XR4all, an initiative co-financed by Horizon 2020: find out the four deadline dates!
GERMAN CIRCUS USES HOLOGRAMS INSTEAD OF LIVE ANIMALS
IN THIS CIRCUS, A Cruelty-Free Magical Experience IS REAL Entertaining the crowds since 1976, Circus Roncalli has done something unimaginable – they have swapped out horses, lions and elephants for
Brenda Mboya’s challenge: Create a technological development network on the African continent
Spreading technological education among young Africans to create a new generation of talents able to compete with the rest of the world: the ambitious project by Brenda Mboya, one of the protagonists of the # MFR19 Opening Conference
Hortextreme: ENEA’s vertical spatial garden designed for Mars missions
Is it possible to grow vegetables on board a spaceship? According to ENEA yes: in # MFR19 was presented Hortextreme, the first vertical vegetable garden that will allow to cultivate some vegetables, such as red cabbage, pink lentil and radicchio, in “vehicles” directed on Space.
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