British designer and inventor, Dominic Wilcox returned to his home of Sunderland and asked over 450 children to draw their own invention ideas. He then asked local manufacturers to turn those drawings into reality. The name of his project is called INVENTORS. After Dominic led a couple of workshops and inventions and ideas. He noticed…
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! NO! It’s YoyoDrone!
This Yoyo flies! John Christiansen from Bentonville, AR likes to invent and his passion for all things physics led him to a unique observation: if a yoyo was fitted with propellers, it could do a flying dance in your hands. He designed a yoyo with propellers fitted in it and now he is ready to…
“I wanna stick to you so bad”, say Gecko Feet!
Scientists at Germany’s Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) have developed a new material that helps grip objects through its adhesion properties – and can be turned off and on as desired. This material comes as a welcome update for manufacturing industry which needs gripping aid for fragile objects. Machines employ graspers or suction cups for…