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  • August 2008

    • High-Tech Gear Floods Olympic Games

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 16, 08 5:35 PM CDT

      High-Tech Gear Floods Olympic Games

      (Newser) - The Michael Phelps-endorsed body suit is only one of the high-tech inventions at this year's Olympic Games, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. NASA-designed shoes, 3D motion-capture-designed bicycles, and a Nike PreCool vest have all garnered attention. But the most controversial is a spring-enhanced shoe that track and field athletes will wear this week. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Nike  • shoes  • invention  • sports technology

  • June 2008

    • Prize Philanthropy: A Winning Concept

      Portfolio  |  Jun 12, 08 12:53 PM CDT

      Prize Philanthropy: A Winning Concept

      (Newser) - When the X-Prize foundation offered $10 million to anyone who could develop a viable commercial spacecraft, it didn’t just send innovators scurrying, and it didn’t just grab headlines. It also began the next big trend in philanthropy. Donors are in love with prize philanthropy, Portfolio reports, and causes are ditching grants in favor of open contests, hoping to spur innovation. More »

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      philanthropy  • innovation  • contest  • space flight  • invention  • prize

    • 10 Who Were Blinded (or Worse) by Science

      List Universe  |  Jun 12, 08 7:45 AM CDT

      10 Who Were Blinded (or Worse) by Science

      (Newser) - Knowledge may be power, but finding that knowledge can get you killed. List Universe ranks the top scientists killed or injured by their experiments. Galileo Galilei: The “father of modern physics” refined the telescope by staring at the sun for hours, resulting in near-blindness. Michael Faraday: A nitrogen chloride explosion halted Faraday’s research of the electro-magnetic field and caused chronic suffering from his chemical poisoning. More »

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      list  • science  • death  • radiation  • invention  • experiments  • Galileo

  • May 2008

    • Self-Fixing Plane in the Works

      Gizmag  |  May 28, 08 5:55 AM CDT

      Self-Fixing Plane in the Works

      (Newser) - British aerospace engineers are working on technology that could create self-repairing aircraft, Gizmag reports. In a technique very much like nature's healing process, resin would "bleed" out of damaged parts of the plane and harden, making a damaged aircraft strong enough to continue to fly until it could be repaired properly on the ground. More »

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      airplane  • aviation  • plastic  • 787 Dreamliner  • aerospace  • aircraft  • engineering  • invention

  • April 2008

    • New Gadget Strikes a Chord

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Apr 7, 08 12:24 PM CDT

      New Gadget Strikes a Chord

      (Newser) - One less thing is standing between you and a perfect jam session: tuning your electric guitar. A newly launched battery-powered compact device that mounts on the instrument's body is accurate to within 2% of a note, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . "It's just a dream, being able to pick up the guitar and see whether it's in tune or tune it quickly," says a beta user. More »

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      music  • consumer electronics  • guitar  • entrepreneurs  • invention

  • March 2008

    • Earliest Recording of Sound Finally Played Back

      New York Times  |  Mar 27, 08 11:29 AM CDT

      Earliest Recording of Sound Finally Played Back

      (Newser) - Thomas Edison and associates might've been first to hear recorded sound, but scientists have revealed they weren’t the first to create it, the New York Times reports. A 10-second recording of “Au Clair de la Lune” made in 1860—17 years before Edison patented the phonograph—has finally been played back by researchers who discovered it in a Paris archive. More »

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      invention  • sound  • Thomas Edison  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    • McMuffin Man Dead at 89

      Associated Press  |  Mar 27, 08 2:45 AM CDT

      McMuffin Man Dead at 89

      (Newser) - The inventor of the Egg McMuffin has died in his Southern California home at the age of 89,  AP reports. Herb Peterson began working with McDonald's in the advertising department, and later switched to the hands-on side of the business, owning six restaurants in the Santa Barbara area. Peterson, a big fan of eggs Benedict, came up with the idea for the breakfast-on-the-run Egg McMuffin in 1972, inspiring a host of imitators. More »

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      obituary  • McDonald's  • fast food  • invention  • breakfast sandwiches  • Santa Barbara  • breakfast

  • December 2007

    • Tough Call: Book Says Bell Ripped Off Rival

      MSNBC  |  Dec 27, 07 3:34 PM CST

      Tough Call: Book Says Bell Ripped Off Rival

      (Newser) - Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell ripped off the idea from his rival Elisha Gray, a new book claims. In The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secre t, journalist Seth Shulman uncovers evidence that Bell took a sneak peek at Gray's patent documents with the help of his lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner, MSNBC reports. More »

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      telephone  • invention  • patent

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