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This Engineer Is Using Old Cell Phones to Stop Illegal Logging (VIDEO)
On a 2011 hike through the Indonesian rainforest, Topher White stumbled across a rogue logger cutting down a tree. The man was working just a short distance from the ranger station, but the din of chirping birds and buzzing insects obscured the sound of his chainsaw, keeping him hidden in plain sight. This gave White anREAD MORE

A Scottish Engineer’s Quest to Design a Kite That Can Power the World (VIDEO)
Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he’s been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power. His prototype, a series of spinning rainbow-colored rings, stands out against the gray Scottish sky. On a good day, the kite generates moreREAD MORE