industrial design
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reducing polymer filament costs
Filament for 3d printing could be much cheaper if 3d printers use sensors to compensate for diameter variation.
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overengineered air filter shelving
Let's consider air purifier design a bit.
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Can SRAM be stacked like NAND flash?
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electric rifles have become practical
Using semiconductor bridge initiators for rifle cartridges seems practical.
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Aerodynamic drag is lower in hydrogen.
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Heliostat costs came down a lot.
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Let's consider exactly what's impractical about large walking robots and what properties they'd have if they could be made.
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There's something intuitively intriguing about the concept of shoes with spring elements.
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Very pure aluminum at the boiling point of hydrogen is a very cool material.
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the micro-fulfillment cambrian explosion
A wide variety of systems for automated storage and retrieval of small items in relatively small areas have recently appeared.
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This is a proposal for government-required safety warnings for products.
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I don't like accelerated weathering or stratospheric aerosol injection. I think marine cloud brightening is better than those.
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Raccoons.
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Why have articulated robots become more capable?
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The sounds currently used for emergency vehicle sirens are poor choices.
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What are the advantages and limitations of eye tracking as a user interface? What holds its implementation back, and how could those issues be resolved?
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This is a novel approach to data transfer cables for computers that only became feasible recently.
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Are robots with arms that mimic the arm movement of a human controller viable?
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This is a design for a connector for charging electric cars.