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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Checking in on the Next Generation of Inventors [Watch (HLS stream): Checking in on the Next Generation of Inventors](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FGn4AdPv.m3u8) (2:38)  _Published 2010-06-24. Techland's gadget critic Doug Aamoth heads over to MIT to survey EurekaFest, a high schooler show featuring up-and-coming gadgets from the next generation_ --- Jul 27, 2023 2:22 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [EurekaFest 2013: Ice search and rescue ROV](/video/MSqQACHH/) ### EurekaFest 2013: Ice search and rescue ROV [EurekaFest 2013: Drowning prevention device](/video/B0Qjod00/) ### EurekaFest 2013: Drowning prevention device [EurekaFest 2013: Solar egg incubator](/video/DKPzoiBr/) ### EurekaFest 2013: Solar egg incubator --- ## Transcript >> Since 1994, the Lemelson- MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute Technology has been giving out grants to high school- aged inventors, in the hopes of encouraging sustainable new solutions to real world problems. Every year at Eureka Fest, the student teams show off their inventions. >> Eureka Fest is Lemelson- MIT Program's annual celebration to the inventive spirit. We bring together all of our Lemelson- MIT award winners for the year, and all of our InvenTeams are high school grants recipients. InvenTeams are the nationwide grants initiatives. We look for high school students and teachers who are geared up with an idea of an invention that they want to develop to solve a problem in their community or elsewhere. We're giving a grant of up to $ 10, 000 to do it, and we'll support them in other ways, trying to help them with their projects. >> Projects like this portable water craft transfer device for disabled users developed by students, associated with the science museum in Minnesota, for this outdoor self- sustaining solar- powered hydroponic gardening system that is used to grow up tomato plants without any intervention, it's completely solar powered, and it even sends out updates via twitter, or this micro scale hydroelectric water purifier system developed by students at Oakridge High School in Tennessee. It's designed to be placed in running rivers or streams, in areas without access to clean water such as [ unk ]. Several other inventions were on display at Eureka Fest as well. >> About 10 percent of power year- round is counted for to standby powered. Something like this-- it would cost around $ 12. If you're running it on your television, you're saving-- just cutting the standby power for a television alone, it'll pay for itself within a reasonable amount of time. -[ unk ] we know micro controller takes those-- both of those inputs and can use those numbers to tell you if you're in danger of being struck by lightning. >> We're building a physical therapy chair that can vibrate and heat for the physically fragile kids [ unk ]. >> To keep the muscles from atrophies? >> Yes. They get-- they put their arms to certain points to stretch them out, and then from there, they get their exercise. >> This is an ultrasonic device that uses ultrasound, obviously, to alert a blind person to objects at the head or neck level. >> The motor will spin in a different speed, depending on how close the object is to you. >> Yep.- [ unk ] is when the power go out? >> Well, I saw-- >> That's amazing. >> You know, some didn't intend to have a power glove, and I thought, we have these sensors, why not try to make my own? So, I could interface this to my computer, and it knows exactly where each of my fingers are and how my arm is rotated. 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