Lee Cowan from CBS Sunday Morning reports on a robotic exoskeleton that helps paraplegics walk again. “For people who’ve lost their ability to walk, there was a time when only a wheelchair meant mobility. But there’s something new under the…
HiveLend connects farmers and beekeepers
Founded in 2015 by University of Michigan students, HiveLend was created to simply connect beekeepers and farmers. “Like most entrepreneurial ideas, HiveLend started out as a problem in search of a solution. Specifically, when Nick got started as a beekeeper,…
OpenCat created with more than nine lives
Rongzhong Li started working on OpenCat as a hobby in 2016 while teaching computer science and robotics at Wake Forest University. He noticed his robot cat attracted students to STEM who might not otherwise care about robots. As a result,…
College students can save money by renting textbooks
The average college student will spend $1,200 per year on textbooks. That’s not to mention the fact that prices on textbooks continue to rise. They have risen 889% over the last 30 years, outpacing inflation and even the rising cost…
UK supports using drones for social good
A UK project is exploring how drones could help with good causes such as medical delivery, traffic incident response, and fire response and construction and regeneration. Read more about it at Tech Crunch.
Acoustic lighthouse deflects birds from wind turbines
Wind turbines kill around 350,000 birds per year. According to Popular Mechanics, “when birds fly, they’re usually looking down at the ground instead of ahead of them. This helps with navigation, but increasingly poses a problem when very tall objects…
Is it real or is it AI?
David Pogue talks to to people who load up their computers with art or music and then have their computers create “new” art or music. See if you can tell the difference between original or AI generated art at CBS…
Apple creates the Lisa
In 1979, Apple began work on the Lisa, which would become the world’s first commercial computer with a graphical user interface. Originally intended to sell for $2,000 and ship in 1981, the Lisa is delayed until 1983 and sells for…
Prisoners learn to code
Silicon Valley is teaming up with San Quentin to train young people to code. Read the entire article at USA Today and learn more about The Last Mile, the company that set up a Technology Accelerator inside the prison.
Ada Lace books may turn girls into science geeks
Emily Calandrelli, host of Xploration Station thinks there aren’t enough female science geeks in fiction. She wants to help change that with her Ada Lace series of children’s books. Calandrelli says, “What I wanted to do was create a character…