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...Rope That Knows Inventor: Squid Labs Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: squid-labs.com As any fire fighter or rock climber can tell you, a simple rope can save your life-as long as it doesn't fray or break without warning. Because Smart Rope is embedded with electrically conductive metal fibers, it can sense the amount of weight it is bearing and alert users to a load that is too great. A handheld receiver relays any problems to the owner with a warning message. Smart Rope can also be used for mooring boats, securing valuables or in rescue operations. Next...
...Tokyo, has created an electronic film-made up of bendable, shock-resistant transistors embedded in plastic-that can detect pressure and temperature. The sheet, known as a "large-area sensor array," is flexible enough to cover small objects and could give robots a sense of touch. Another potential use: smart carpet or furniture upholstery that can automatically adjust its temperature. Next Product: Goin' Coconuts...
Whose head would you like to inhabit? No one's, really. Because I'd want it to be someone really smart, and that's a heap of trouble. If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything...
...tell you how appreciative I am that she brought us on the radar screen," says Ho of Elam. "Companies don't look beyond minorities and women to look at minority women. Asians, for instance, may have kind of positive stereotypes that we work hard and we're smart. But Asian women are considered submissive and weak...
...leave more confused and more turned off to the material than when we arrived. Too often there is too much talking, too little listening, and virtually no constructive dialogue going. Such criticisms are hardly new, but, surprisingly, the two myths perpetuating these weekly disasters still linger: Myth #1: Smart people automatically know how to teach. Most of us have already learned the fallacy of this one the hard way, but the University administration still seems to rely upon it. Many cite the high CUE scores most TFs receive as evidence of their competence, but these people fail to realize that...