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Kenyan inventor has designed a pair of gloves that translate signed hand movements into speech.
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 02:34
Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for. This is Episode 53 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Submitting a 510(k) might be like saying you're qualified for college because your fraternal twin is already there. This is Episode 52 of Engineeri...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 06:06
- Purchases: 1
The delicious flavor of a 0% manufacturing defect rate can come from fresh poka-yoke. This is Episode 51 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 07, 2018
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
New year, new Engineering Word Of The Day. Or in this case, new acronym of the day, standing for "new product development". This is Episode 50 of E...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Grow, make, and eat your own dogfood -- I mean products. Episode 47 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 28, 2017
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
Organize your to-do list efficiently! This is episode 44 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 06, 2017
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Engineering and business consultant Pat Sweet, P.Eng., guests on this episode to discuss the critical engineering design concept of validation. You...
Bought by WETD
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
Marco Tempest is not your average magician. He uses robots to do magic tricks on stage -- but the real trick is in how easily he can get an audienc...
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 16:56
Every single Thursday for the last five years Trish Witkowski has uploaded a video just meant for the few thousand people in the world that design ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 22:59
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 10:25
Is it possible to reverse this downward slide of the brick-and-mortar retail stores? Will implementing disruptive technologies alone save the tradi...
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 49:44
As of January, there were over three quarters of a million apps available for our smartphones and iPods. Thanks to one occupational therapist, some...
Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 3
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
For more than a year now, BART's board of directors has been discussing whether – and how – the system could stay open later. Right now the trains ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 05:11
Who would have thought that Borders, the corporate bookselling behemoth that had stores in practically every mini mall across America, would now be...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:44
Let's talk about high fashion and Target, the big box store. The two seemingly opposites converged, recently, largely because of the environmentall...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The bacterium Thermus aqaticus, discovered in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, made some people rich...
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Today, you can recharge many gadgets with solar power.
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Wind is the world's fastest-growing energy source, with an average annual growth rate of 29 percent over the last 10 years. Wind-driven turbines co...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Solar power's been around for a long time, and while it's gotten some government support, it's never enjoyed the huge subsidies that fossil fuels h...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Though many companies already recycle their office paper, the truly paperless office is still a rarity. With some dedication, though, there are ple...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
