It may not seem obvious, but if you want to know where you are, you need an accurate clock. This was true in the 18th century, when mariners first...
“Growing up with cerebral palsy made me a stronger person and very determined to succeed. Inventing has given me confidence and a way to help myself...
Mike Augspurger’s lifelong interest and training in mechanics, bicycle design, and off-road racing led him to start a bike company. Along with custom...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Thus pronounced Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the prophetic author of 2001: A Space...
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“Citius, Altius, Fortius”—translated as “faster, higher, stronger”—is the motto of the modern Olympic...
The Super Bowl is a cultural event that attracts the attention of more than just football fans. In 2013, Super Bowl XLVII was the third most watched...
One of the coolest inventions I have seen recently is an adorable little robot named PLANTANIMAL. This autonomous garden-robot prototype was created...
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of posts by Lemelson Fellow Aimi Hamraie. At the time of writing, Hamraie was a PhD candidate in Women’s...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of posts by Lemelson Fellow Aimi Hamraie. At the time of writing, Hamraie was a PhD candidate in Women’s...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts by Lemelson Fellow Aimi Hamraie. At the time of writing, Hamraie was a PhD candidate in Women’s...
Jason Bannister, chief artist and scientist of Mechanimal, a robotics company in Pittsburgh, designs, sketches and builds robots. In this episode he...
In addition to participating in NanoDays 2011, the Lemelson Center's Spark!Lab celebrated National Robotics Week during April with new robotics...
Much of the world’s Internet management and governance takes place in a corridor extending west from Washington, DC, through northern Virginia toward...
Robots are all the rage these days, already here or soon to come into our homes, our workplaces, our cities, and, of course, the military. "Science in...
"Engineers have to invent things, because that's their job, to develop something as a solution to a problem."As a graduate student at the...
“Anything you can think of, you can create,” says Van Phillips, inventor of Flex-Foot, a line of artificial legs that has revolutionized the field of...
"If you want to make an improvement or an innovation or an invention, the place to look is in yourself," Mike Augspurger told students at the Lemelson...
As a girl growing up in the 1960s, Janese Swanson never dreamed of being an inventor. Although fascinated by technology, she had never heard of any...
