Has anyone checked out the American Inventor on ABC? The series just started up again for its second season. Talk about the ultimate Gadget Freak! At the end of the season, the show touts itself as having the ability (with a little help from viewers) to uncover the hottest new product and make one struggling inventor’s dream come true. The winner also receives $1 million in cold hard cash!
Casting calls were held in six major cities across the country looking for the ultimate inventor. The panel of judges, which includes George Foreman, Peter Jones, Pat Croce and Sara Blakely, will narrow down the initial entries and choose one finalist from each city who will receive $50,000 to further develop their invention. Then, they come back together for the semi-final round and America will vote (think American Idol) for one of three finalists. The winner gets a $1 million prize and the opportunity to make his or her dream come true!
William Grill's gadget can take energy from an alternate source (such as the sun) and increase the voltage to make the power useful in a wide range of applications.
To capture quick events, like the pop of a balloon, James Hartnett created a high-speed circuit that triggers a flash when movement or sound is detected.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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