SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: injectable implants, urban acupuncture, superbug drugs
Each week our friends at SmartPlanet recap the week's most interesting news and developments in applied technology, science, energy and healthcare. Welcome to the Week in Innovation.
On Monday, we wondered how the U.S. would deal with nuclear waste, sat down with a Chinese designer to learn how his community feels about copycat products, checked out injectable implants, considered the telecommuting-car connection, discovered the smallest nanowire battery, debated whether human genes should be patented and checked out BMW's amazing new electric cars.
On Tuesday, we learned about "virtual stores" in Korea, looked at the threat of nuclear radiation on rice crops in Japan, considered "living" disc implants for backs, checked out MIT researchers generating solar power without light, learned about the work being done to understand football concussions, wrote about the U.S. Navy's work in digitizing its aircraft carriers and walked through the Guggenheim's new lab in New York.
On Wednesday, we discovered the term "urban acupuncture," checked out an entire airplane produced by a 3D printer, considered the merits of a cancer-fighting house, talked to the folks behind Discovery's Curiosity, read about New York City's High Line park, watched as NASA researchers discovered oxygen in space and became acquainted with a gadget that stops us from binge eating.
Plus, regrowing blood vessels, the world's newest tallest building and why our Internet is breaking down.
On Thursday, we read about police use of biometric data, rode on the world's largest solar-powered boat, discovered a new test for cancer, checked out see-through solar film for windows, watched architects create with computers and learned about a baby with a special artificial heart.
Plus, superbug drugs, disaster response, energy-sucking skyscrapers and a heart-sensing steering wheel.
Finally, on Friday we broke down why Apple's iPad is superior from a design perspective, flipped through NASA photos showing evidence of water on Mars, considered the effects of climate change on a state-to-state basis, read about the utility of an electric car during a blackout and dug into why office lighting is so bad.
Plus, pod cars at the airport, data visualizations of running routes and how Japanese designers are turning shipping containers into temporary homes.
Windows open -- it's a beautiful day!
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