This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water

Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water

Smithsonian Magazine

Invention is a flower. Innovation is a weed.
-- Bob Metcalfe

#Wisdom #Quotes #BobMetcalfe #Invention #Innovation

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

Are you willing to sit with a complicated problem? Are you willing to be bored? Are you willing to be frustrated? Are you willing to pursue your own random ideas? Are you willing to try things out? Are you willing to fail, repeatedly, and keep going?

If so, you can be an inventor. You can create things that nobody has created. It could be art, it could be software, it could be a new process or a novel or a tool or a game or a piece of music.

#creativity #boredom #invention #art

Dartmouth doctor’s invention featured in hit medical drama The Pitt
The Ring Rescue appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series after one of the device's inventors, Dr. Kevin Spencer, met the show's lead actor, Noah Wyle, and producers at a medical trade show last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dartmouth-doctor-ring-rescue-medical-drama-the-pitt-hbo-9.7126246?cmp=rss
N.S. doctor's invention featured in an episode of The Pitt, HBO's hit medical drama
The Ring Rescue appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series after one of the device's inventors, Dr. Kevin Spencer, met the show's lead actor, Noah Wyle, and producers at a medical trade show last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dartmouth-doctor-ring-rescue-medical-drama-the-pitt-hbo-9.7126246?cmp=rss
Nova Scotia doctor's invention featured in hit medical drama The Pitt
The Ring Rescue appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series after one of the device's inventors, Dr. Kevin Spencer, met the show's lead actor, Noah Wyle, and producers at a medical trade show last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dartmouth-doctor-ring-rescue-medical-drama-the-pitt-hbo-9.7126246?cmp=rss
Dartmouth doctor’s invention featured in hit medical drama The Pitt
The Ring Rescue appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series after one of the device's inventors, Dr. Kevin Spencer, met the show's lead actor, Noah Wyle, and producers at a medical trade show last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dartmouth-doctor-ring-rescue-medical-drama-the-pitt-hbo-9.7126246?cmp=rss

☎️🗣️ The first phone call was a literal cry for help. While working on his "harmonic telegraph," Alexander Graham Bell accidentally spilled battery acid on his clothes.

When he shouted for his assistant, Thomas Watson heard the request clearly through the receiver in the other room, marking the first time in #history human voice traveled as an electrical signal.

👉 https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694

#technology #tech #invention #communication #science #education #innovation #discovery #boston

The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world

Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.

The Conversation

QRTape | Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision - YouTube

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbtqU8awzWg

#alttaborg #Musique #Audio #Papier #Qrcode #Experience #Diy #Invention #Tape #Cassette #Bande 🔗via alt-tab.org

QRTape | Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision

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« Gugusse et l’Automate » (George Méliès, vers 1897; vidéo, 45 sec)
🔸La première apparition au cinéma de ce qu’on pourrait appeler un robot.
🔸Film découvert et restauré à la Bibliothèque du Congrès.
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/lost-19th-century-film-by-melies-discovered-at-the-library/
#cinéma #film #fiction #art #vidéo #Méliès #Gugusse #automate #LoC #bibliothèque #culture #invention
Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless

Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

The Library of Congress