Jeff Wilser

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Improving Hybrid Meetings

Imagine a conference room with a dozen people, plus more joining remotely on a video call. It’s awkward. Eye contact is tough and if you’re on video, it’s hard to see everyone clearly. Logitech Sight...

By Jeff Wilser

Simpler Cycling

Bike pedals have trade offs. Many clip-in pedals provide “float,” meaning they have some wiggle room side-to-side, which is gentler on your knees. The downside is that you need special shoes and your feet are...

By Jeff Wilser

Catching Cancer Early

The five-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is just 13%, largely because it’s often not detected until it’s too late. That’s why at Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care system, hospitals use the AI-powered...

By Jeff Wilser

A True Robotic Lawn Mower

Robot lawn mowers aren’t new, but most need underground wires to define the perimeter and ensure safety. Mammotion’s Luba 2 AWD is completely wireless, using a system of GPS, cameras, ultrasonic radar, and 3D vision...

By Jeff Wilser

More Durable Hiking Boots

A hiking boot breaks down when dirt, mud, and water cause the midsole (the part that touches your sock) to become unglued from the outsole (the part that touches the ground). This is called delamination,...

By Jeff Wilser

Forging Brain-Spine Connections

In 2020, Keith Thomas dived into a pool, hit his head, and broke his neck. He was paralyzed from the chest down. Then, in a first-of-its-kind surgery last year, scientists implanted microchips into his brain...

By Jeff Wilser

Avian Audio

When you set up a Haikubox in your backyard, it automatically listens for birds, records their songs, identifies the species (using AI-powered audio pattern recognition), and then, via Wi-Fi, shares this information to a website...

By Jeff Wilser

BackAware Belt: 200 Best Inventions 2024

Find out why BackAware Belt is one of the best inventions of 2024.

By Jeff Wilser

Clearer Dental X-Rays

Dental X-rays can be tricky for patients—especially kids—to understand, as the gray blobs of a cavity can look similar to the gray blobs of a healthy tooth. And if the patient is confused, then complying...

By Jeff Wilser

Therapy for Spinal Cord Injuries

Over 250,000 people in the U.S. alone live with spinal cord injuries. To help patients regain sensation and strength in their hands and arms, Onward Medical’s ARC-EX therapy uses electrical stimulation—applied externally with electrodes—to effectively...

By Jeff Wilser

Shredding Sustainably

Most snowboards are made, in part, from a plastic called polyethylene, which comes from petroleum. So to demonstrate that they could be made more sustainably, Wndr designed the first snowboard made from microalgae—an oil produced...

By Jeff Wilser

Sustaining Cat Health

Cats can be stoical, hiding their health problems until it gets serious. But their urine can provide clues: When your cat goes in the Smart Box Health Monitoring Cat Litter, the pellets will change color...

By Jeff Wilser

Keeping Meat Moist

Traditional air fryers risk dehydrating meat as it cooks, so what you get in convenience you lose in tenderness. To combat this, the Dreo ChefMaker employs a “water atomization system” that sprays the food with...

By Jeff Wilser

Reimagining the Spice Grinder

Freshly ground spices just taste better; when pre-ground spices come in jars, they eventually lose their flavor as the oils evaporate. But manual grinding is labor-intensive. The FinaMill reconceptualizes the spice grinder as an electrically...

By Jeff Wilser

Fully Recyclable Camping Gear

Complexity is the enemy of recycling. When products are made from multiple materials—plastic, nylon, cotton—it’s costly to separate and reuse them. And so, 2 billion tons of waste is dumped into landfills each year. This...

By Jeff Wilser

Funding Kids

Across the globe, nearly six out of ten children are unable to read before the age of 10. And more than 47 million children have been displaced due to conflict. Grim statistics like these are...

By Jeff Wilser

Flotation Reimagined

There’s an old motto about life jackets: they’re useless unless worn. But historically they’re bulky and uncomfortable (and thus sometimes ignored), so Mustang Survival re-engineered the standard design so people would actually wear the vest....

By Jeff Wilser

More Nutritious Plants

Plants and fungi have sneaky superpowers—some of which come in the form of bioactives, natural compounds that could benefit gut bacteria and human health. “Somewhere along the way, we lost a lot of that knowledge,”...

By Jeff Wilser

Eco-Friendly and Scented

If you care about sustainability but need to do laundry, typically you’re faced with a choice: Use a convenient and fresh-smelling “pod” that’s made with unsustainable microplastics, or use an eco-friendly detergent that’s essentially unscented....

By Jeff Wilser

Toi Labs TrueLoo: Best Inventions 2024

Find out why Toi Labs TrueLoo is one of the best inventions of 2024.

By Jeff Wilser
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