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Here's an Idea
Here’s an Idea is Tech Briefs' original podcast series features the stories behind today’s most innovative technologies and the inventors responsible for creating them.
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A New Minimally Invasive Approach to Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. Prognoses are often tragic and social costs exceed $2 million (U.S...
Human Factors in Drug Delivery
Patients are more likely to adhere to their treatment plans when drug-delivery devices are user-friendly. So, what can device developers do to ensure...
Powerful Sensors for the Eye
Advances in integrated microelectronics have enabled a revolution in ever smaller and more powerful medical sensors. One such use is for detecting pre...
How AI is Changing Military Aircraft Maintenance and More
On Nov. 2nd, the Department of Defense (DoD) published its 2023 Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy, outlining how the agen...
The Next Frontier in Neurology
Treatments for neurological disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and other related neurological disorders often include invasive...
Dr. Brendan Mulvaney Talks China’s Space and SATCOM Strategy
Ahead of his participation in the 2023 Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition, Dr. Brendan Mulvaney joins the podcast to discuss China’s latest mi...
The Gripen E Jet's New Lithium-Ion Battery
The Gripen E is the latest variant of Saab's fighter jet that first achieved certification for military use and entry into service in December 2022. T...
Medtech’s New Normal
The medical device industry landscape is becoming increasingly complex with an evolving regulatory environment. The focus is now data-centric systems...
A Plant-Based Gel That Saves Lives
Rapid and effective control of bleeding can be the difference between life and death in surgery, on the battlefield, and in emergency situations. Exce...
This Electric Autonomous Drone Enables Networked Warfighter Communications
A California-based startup named Kraus Hamdani Aerospace has emerged as a unique entrant into the market for new commercial and military drone technol...
AI in MedTech
On this episode of Here's an Idea™, James F. Jordan, Healthcare & Life
Sciences Expert, President of StraTactic, and the National Co-Chairman of...
Automating Warehouse Inventory Monitoring with Drones
Efficient inventory management is crucial for manufacturing companies to maintain smooth operations. Pittsburgh-based Gather AI is using drones to aut...
A Wearable Lab on a Patch
Clinicians today are hampered by insufficient and delayed lab diagnostics. Nutromics has created a breakthrough technology that combines multiple DNA...
The Natilus Blended Wing Body Autonomous Air Cargo Aircraft
Natilus was first established a startup in San Diego, California in 2016 with the goal of developing a blended wing body (BWB) autonomous air cargo ca...
Real-Time Remote Heart Monitoring
Biotricity is connecting cardiologists to real-time patient data while empowering patients to help prevent and manage various heart diseases — which i...
Robotic Exploration of Mars Caves
University of Arizona engineers have developed a new system that allows autonomous vehicles to scout out underground habitats for astronauts. On this...
Amprius’ Electric Aircraft Battery Energy Density Breakthrough
Amprius Technologies has achieved a new battery energy density breakthrough of 500 Wh/kg with its lithium-ion cell, the Silicon Anode Platform. Mobile...
The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Avionics Systems
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transitioning from future-facing buzzwords to a near term possibility for commercial and military air...
3D-Printed Lubrication System for Single-Use Engines
Effective lubrication is essential to any mechanical system. For example, it is responsible for providing a continuous flow of oil to the engine of th...
A Future for Smart Fabrics
Fabrics haven’t changed all that much. For years, a shirt has quite simply been a shirt. But a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wants...
How to Make the Best Decisions (on the Moon)
Pharma industries, transportation services, the energy sector, and mining companies are looking for a new place to do business, and it’s more than 200...
How a Brain-Computer Interface Works
For some people, a critical link – the one sending signals from brain to body, the one connecting thought to action – does not work properly, or in so...
Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles
Over 145 million electric vehicles are set to take the road by 2030 and a major component of the new class of electric vehicles – lithium-ion batterie...
Going for the Gold with Aerodynamic Luge Sleds
Luge is one of the three sliding sports on the program at the 2022 Winter Olympics being held in Beijing this month. The sport requires athletes to ba...
How to Make an 'Ocean Battery'
Dr. Frits Bliek and his team at Ocean Grazer are building an "Ocean Battery" that brings hydrodam technology to the sea. On this episode of Here's an...
A Major Role for Microneedles in Drug Delivery, Post-Pandemic
Who really likes needles? A brand-new episode of our Tech Briefs podcast series Here’s an Idea™ explores the emergence of a drug-delivery patch made o...
Reinventing the Hearing Aid: From DIY Devices to Brainwave Monitoring
We speak to four researchers about their hearing innovations: a 3D-printed stent for collapsed cartilage, a one-dollar hearing aid that can be built i...
The Robot’s Emerging Role: Surgeon
Tech Briefs talks to three researchers who are finding ways to automate surgical tasks, from suturing, to spotting tumors, to operating one of the big...
Inside the New Medical Wearables: Patches, Tattoos, and Skin-Like Sensors
Medical wearables are advancing past smartwatches and Fitbits, but will they catch on? We talk to the researchers behind an assistive mouth sensor, sk...
Hospital Robots Join the COVID-19 Fight: Meet Tommy, Spot, and Tiago
As doctors and nurses seek hands-free ways to disinfect environments, operate equipment, and contain the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19, some hosp...
A "Teflon" for Dangerous Bacteria: Dr. Leyla Soleymani and RepelWrap
It looks a bit like the plastic wrap you’d find around a Coca-Cola bottle, but with a big difference. This “RepelWrap” fends off viruses like one that...
A Bug-Inspired Building Material for Mars: Javier Gomez Fernandez and "Chitin"
If humans end up on Mars in the next ten years, astronauts will need to use as much of the planet’s resources as possible and potentially build habita...
3D Printing in Space: NASA's Tracie Prater
The International Space Station is full of spare parts that can replace any faulty or broken ones. Tracie Prater, a materials engineer at NASA's Marsh...
The Future of Urban Air Mobility: Tim McConnell and the 'Aerodrome'
When our urban environments are filled with drones and other unmanned aircraft, they'll need to be able detect and avoid obstacles. University of Cali...
A Jumping Robot to Explore the Moon and Mars: Hendrik Kolvenbach and "SpaceBok"
The Mars-bound Perseverance rover is as sophisticated as it gets. But can it jump? Hendrik Kolvenbach, PhD researcher at the ETH Zurich Robotics Syste...
A Shape-Shifting Airplane Wing: Ben Jenett's "MADCAT" Idea
Every airplane wing and body has basically the same shape. "That means they're suboptimal," says MIT's Ben Jenett. Learn how Ben is creating a shape-s...
Looking for Life on Mars: Roger Wiens and the “SuperCam”
Roger Wiens, a fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks about how he and his team created the SuperCam. The "Super" instrument will be aboard t...
A.I. in the Air
In July of this year, Tech Briefs editors found themselves in the middle of a drone testing ground.
Now, the race is on. See how engineers are w...
Apollo 11
In conjunction with our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, this month's Here's an Idea episode features an interview with Daniel Colema...
Candy
Whether you're the owner of a candy shop in Brooklyn or you're one of the giant chocolate makers like Hershey's or Nestlé, you'll want to experiment.<...