by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog
Dean Kamen and a bunch of folks associated with his Manchester R&D firm Deka have received a patent that seems to allow you to operate a Segway-like vehicle by leaning the handlebars back and forth, as shown in one patent illustration above, or perhaps by twisting...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog
I learned from Green Car Reports, via Reuters, that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration missed a November deadline to produce rules requiring electric and hybrid cars to emit noises to warn pedestrians. An earlier proposal called for vehicles “to...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog
A report from the Globe’s STAT health-and-science section: “Hundreds of scientists are convening in Washington today for an international summit on genome editing, fueled by the development of the technology called CRISPR. The technology, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
In 1975, a bright young man named Joseph Arsenault patented a lug strap for a Concord company that made industrial products out of leather, especially power transmission belts for machinery – a fading technology even then in the face of direct-drive motors and...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
The Boston Business Journal reports that Boston MedFlight helicopters have been cleared to use GPS to land in Boston, near Logan airport: “helicopter ambulance systems in New Hampshire and Maine have utilized GPS to land at hospitals, Boston MedFlight is the...
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