Collaborate Disseminate
Being a Disney Imagineer, Lanny Smoot is, as he says, “in service of people having fun.” And he’s nothing if not industrious. His long career as a theatrical technology creator, investor, electrical engineer, scientist, and researcher has resulted in a… Continue reading Lanny Smoot: First Disney Imagineer inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame
Sure, it does less than originally promised, but hey — at least it’s more expensive. That about sums up Tesla fans’ feelings after the long-awaited Cybertruck reveal at the Texas …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 3, 2023
Donald Reid had a passion for applying himself to challenging problems, and in many ways his life’s work was that of developing a prototype submersible aircraft — or flying submarine …read more Continue reading Flying Submarine Documentary is a Story of Defied Assumptions
Modern processors come with all kinds of power management features, which you don’t typically notice as a user until you start a heavy program and hear the CPU fan spin …read more Continue reading Missing DR-DOS Power Management Source Code Found in Patent
Honda has patented a new type of airbag system for motorcycles, which would rapidly inflate in a crash or fall situation, wrap around the rider’s torso in a great big hug, and detach from the bike to protect the rider when the two are separated.Continu… Continue reading Honda patents crotch-firing, torso-hugging detachable motorcycle airbag
Well, we guess it had to happen eventually — Ford is putting plans in place to make its vehicles capable of self-repossession. At least it seems so from a patent …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 5, 2023
When [Hand Tool Rescue] came across a 1919 patent for a one size fits all wrench, he couldn’t help but recreate it. Described in the patent as “a new, original, …read more Continue reading One-Size-Fits-All Wrench Points to a Nut Job
A beautiful chapter of the history of invention in the United States ended with a fire in 1880. Well, the fire took place in 1877, but the wheels of government …read more Continue reading Patents and the Missing Museum
With a near monopoly on delivery, Amazon is understandably keen to make the job easier. The latest idea that may or may not eventually see the light of day is a new patent for a system where delivery vans would carry items almost to their destination, … Continue reading Amazon patents trucks that unleash and direct fleets of delivery drones
On the 12th of April 1955, the results of the largest clinical experiment in history were revealed. Called the Francis Field Trial, nearly two million children played a role in testing a novel polio vaccine that was found to be incredibly effective in … Continue reading Pandemic profits threaten global COVID-19 vaccination efforts