Catarina Mota: Play with Smart Materials
At the rate at which technology is progressing, the average person can hardly keep up…
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Manchester Jigsaw Craft Raises Awareness About World Hunger
A Manchester jigsaw craft will raise awareness of world hunger; people across the country have…
Interim Prosthetic Leg for Landmine Victims
The Landmine Monitor report estimates that between 15,000 to 20,000 people become victims of landmines…
Kormea Produces Cheap Banana-Based Sanitary Pads
MIT and SHE, Sustainable Health Enterprises worked together to produce Kormea, a machine that produces…
Highway Billboard Turns Humidity into Clean Drinking Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35yeVwigQcc&feature=player_embedded An odd, but state-of-the-art technology is supplying poor residents outside of Lima, Peru with…
Small-Scale Technologies Improve Lives of Women
Technology helps women raise their income, education and social status.The Aga Khan Rural Support Program…
Will Charter Cities Solve Global Poverty?
Can charter cities solve global poverty? Paul Romer, a New York University economist, believes they…
MadiDrop: Water Filter for Developing World
In developing nations, people living in rural or poor communities rely on local groundwater that…
Leveraged Freedom Chair, A “Little Angel Machine”
According to the U.S. Agency for International Development, 20 million people in developing countries require…
Unprecedented Growth in Biotech Crops
Developing nations are now planting more biotech crops than industrialized countries, with 52 percent of…