This UK company has mastered the art of creating artificial smoke for emergency training and is now using their expertise and products to penetrate the American security market.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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The Bloodhound Supersonic
URT Group Composites built a carbon fibre chassis for a jet-powered car that will attempt to hit 1,000 miles per hour.
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Ice Detection Fleet
Researchers in Finland have created an icy road forecaster to help drivers during slippery conditions.
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Swiss Bells
Technology is taking the world by storm but Rene Kern still makes his bells in the traditional way they have been made for 300 years.
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Bird Buggy
Engineering student Andrew Gray has conceived many peculiar inventions, but his pet bird’s favourite is his robotic bird buggy.
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Jay’s Social Experiment: Which Is Best?
Jay tests a well-established psycological idea that if you give people a set of things that are identical and ask them to choose the best one, they will choose one and give you a reason why.
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Windsor Hum
Researchers are trying to figure out what is making the mysterious humming sound in Windsor, Ontario.
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Solar Eye
Pete Smith, one of Britain’s top blacksmiths, has created an Equinox tracker that is part sundial and part calendar.
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Solar Sinter
Markus Kayser has created a 3D printer that prints glass objects using sunlight and sand.

