DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist

DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF 

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


MIT USES AI PREDICTIVE MODEL TO PERFECT YOUR RUNNING SHOES



                                                                Source:  MIT & Stock

  • Top engineers and scientists at MIT have created an AI predictive model to pinpoint the perfect running shoes for you.  Here's what we know:
  • MIT's predictive model uses your height, weight and leg length to simulate your gait
  • The model tests the gait in sneakers of different materials and dynamics like bounce and stiffness to determine the optimal shoe that uses the least energy per stride for you
  • The MIT team believes their model will enable designers to create innovative, new types of high-performance running shoes customized to the individual
  • It predicts how certain shoe properties will affect a runner's performance
  • The MIT team's moonshot goal:  have you send a video of yourself running, put it through their model and then have the resulting perfect shoe 3-D printed for you
  • Part of their research was funded by Adidas.
ELEVATOR OPERATOR: "GOING UP? NEXT FLOOR MARS"




                                                    Source: Jordan William Hughes

  • There are plans for a space elevator made from a captured asteroid to send passengers to the stars.  Here's what we know:
  • Called Ascension, it's the plan of a British architect
  • It's comprised of a long cable roping an asteroid, trapped in geosynchronous orbit, to a floating platform on Earth
  • Its length is 22,000 miles
  • Humans would travel in drones through a giant cable connected to space
  • Costs should be affordable
  • Comparative costs:  rockets cost millions of dollars per pound and the space elevator should cost only dollars per pound
  • The innovator, UK architect Jordan William Hughes, believes bringing his award-winning concept, space elevator, to a reality is realistic but does concede the need for new materials.


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