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    Game On: How Gamification Transforms Mundane Assembly Tasks Into Motivating Challenges

    April 12, 2024
    Treating work like a game sounds like a win-win for productivity and employee happiness, but researchers at West Virginia University found some surprising results from their experiment...
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    Fun Friday: Manufacturing at the Movies: Willy Wonka and the Health, Safety, and Labor Violations Factory

    March 8, 2024
    It’s not Upton Sinclaire’s “The Jungle,” but it’s not too far off.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Chameleon-Inspired 3D Printing Technique Uses One Ink to Print Different Colors, Including Red, Gold, and Green
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Chameleon-Inspired 3D Printing Technique Uses One Ink to Print Different Colors, Including Red, Gold, and Green

    Feb. 23, 2024
    The natural world is the greatest source of inspiration for engineers, designers, and creators alike.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: 3D Printing Experiment Creates 15-Pound Bike That Rivals Professional Bikes

    Feb. 16, 2024
    CoreTechnologie's 3D printing project ended up creating an aluminum and carbon bike that clocks in at the lowest possible weight limit for bikes in the Tour de France—showing ...
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Turn Your Manufacturing Defects into Profit: How Sweethearts Rebranded its Blurry Conversation Hearts

    Jan. 12, 2024
    For a limited time, the company is offering Situationship Boxes, which feature blurry, misprinted candies that are as hard to read as a real situationship.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: 3D Printer Uses Lasers and Cameras to Print Intricate Designs With a Wider Variety of Materials

    Dec. 15, 2023
    Researchers from MIT, the MIT spinout Inkbit, and ETH Zurich have been diligently working on a new 3D inkjet printer that will change what types of projects can be printed and...
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Shape-Shifting Fibers Expand and Contract Based on Body Temperature

    Dec. 1, 2023
    Based on liquid crystal elastomers, the FibeRobo fiber can be embedded or structured into textiles.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: The World's First Smart Island is Here!

    Nov. 17, 2023
    Paros, Greece now holds the title of Europe's first smart island, owner of its very own IoT network. Their first order of business? Making parking a breeze.