Innovation Pipeline
Greg Livadas
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Innovation News
- Inside gaming: Darkwind Media puts ‘joy’ in joysticks
- Furniture design student carves inspiration from nature
- RIT alumna receives prestigious Fulbright Award
- RIT engineering senior design projects to be recognized at conference
- Innovators say curiosity and making change are keys to success
- Experiencing the future
RIT in the News
- RIT’s Big Shot goes 3-D
- Teenager comes up with a way to block Twitter TV spoilers
- Don Golini wants to be an ‘angel’ for startups
- Students, faculty show off creative side at Imagine RIT
- Forget Google Glasses. Invisible Captioning Is the Next Big Idea
- RIT to induct 6 in Innovation Hall of Fame Friday
Related Links
Dynamic duo strong-arms national competition In case you missed it, RIT students Sean Petterson and Justin Hillery are making headlines again. Petterson and Hillery, inventors of the Strong Arm Ergonomic Lifting Safety System, placed first overall at the recent Open Minds Competition, part of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance 16th annual conference. The fourth-year students were part of the national showcase of collegiate student innovators, projects and prospective business ventures, held in San Francisco. This is the first time in the 16-year history of the conference that RIT has had a team selected to compete, says Carl Lundgren, professor of manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology and faculty advisor. This team developed the Strong Arm, a form-fitting garment that incorporates a system of load-bearing straps that allows workers to lift heavy objects with significantly less risk of injury. The dynamic duo was featured in a Democrat and Chronicle video: Click here to see the video. To read the full story of their award, go to www.rit.edu/news/release.php?id=49009.
