Innovative Products
Students Design Low-Cost Surgical Lamp for Developing Nations
Earlier this month, members of Michigan Health Engineered for All Lives, or M-HEAL, sent their prototype lamp to Uganda where it will undergo testing.”The…
Low Cost, Dexterous Robotic Hand Operated by Compressed Air
Named RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments), the fully articulated robotic hand is powered by a compressor air tank at 60 psi and a novel…
Student-Designed Device Provides New Way to Track Calorie Burning
Counting calories that burn through activity is a constant quandary. One can only run on a treadmill so long, watching intently as the pedometer reads out the…
The first virtual reality technology to let you see, hear, smell, taste and touch
What was it really like to live in Ancient Egypt? What did the streets there actually look, sound and smell like? For decades, Virtual Reality has held out the…
Fischer-Tropsch: a hot new catalyst for cool biofuel production in microchannel reactors
The catalyst was produced using Oxford Catalysts' patented organic matrix combustion (OMX) method, which makes it possible to achieve high metal loadings,…
A longer life with Superman bicycle
Patients who are unable to walk after a spinal injury have a poorer quality of life and a shortened lifespan than their non-paralysed counterparts. Sitting…