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      2016 Winners of the Lemelson–M.I.T. Student Prize [Slide Show]

      A nationwide search for the most inventive college students

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      2016 Winners of the Lemelson–M.I.T. Student Prize [Slide Show]
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      Autism Glass: Catalin Voss of Stanford University is developing an emotional learning aid for children with autism based on smart glasses like Google Glass. According to Voss’s vision, an individual with autism puts on the glasses and automatically recognizes emotions in other people's faces using an artificial intelligence system. Autism Glass would give intelligent social cues to the child right then and there via a heads-up display or audio. Credits: Photo courtesy of Stanford University

      2016 Winners of the Lemelson–M.I.T. Student Prize [Slide Show]

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      • SignAloud Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi of the University of Washington created SignAloud, a pair of gloves that have the potential to revolutionize communication for people who cannot speak or hear...
      • Nanophotography camera Achuta Kadambi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Use it!” Graduate Winner for his portfolio of advanced camera inventions including the Nanophotography camera, which can capture light in motion faster than the human eye, and the Polarized 3D Camera, the first 3D camera to use the polarization of light as its operating principle...
      • Spyce Mechanical engineering students Kale Rogers, Michael Farid, Braden Knight and Luke Schlueter of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Eat it!” Undergraduate Winners for their invention Spyce, a completely automated restaurant...
      • SmartPot (SPOT) Heather Hava of the University of Colorado Boulder is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Eat it!” Graduate Winner. Hava, a self-proclaimed “space gardener,” has focused her studies in bioastronautics, and specifically inventing ways to grow food in space and other extreme environments...
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      • Clutchless hybrid transmission Dan Dorsch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Drive it!” Graduate Winner for his invention, the first lightweight clutchless hybrid transmission for cars...
      • Highlight Jason Kang, Katherine Jin and Kevin Tyan of Columbia University are the $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Cure it!” Undergraduate Winners for their invention Highlight, an easy-to-use powdered additive that can be mixed into disinfectant solutions to make them colorized and highly visible...
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