Invention helps predict landslides (ShapeAccelArray)

Inventor: Lee Danisch

Inventor’s location: New Brunswick, Canada

Invention: Device that detects shape-shifting (ShapeAccelArray)
Invention’s application: Possible prediction of landslides

In the past, Lee Danisch has developed systems to capture human motion for the animation and automotive industries.

He claims that his latest invention, the ShapeAccelArray, which can track underground movements with hundreds of calibrated sensors, is the first of its type in the world.

The ShapeAccelArray is a line of tiny sensors encased in pipe with flex joints. The sensors record data about shifts in the soil, and send reports via cellphone.

And, this is expected to be useful in tracking movements of buildings, bridges and landslides.

And the BubbleWrap Invention Competition winner is….

Grayson Rosenberger! This 15 year old teenager from Tennessee is the winner of the BubbleWrap Competition for Young Inventors, conducted by Sealed Air Corporation. The prize is a $10,000 savings bond.

Grayson (his mother is a double amputee) created an inexpensive comsetic covering for artificial limbs. According to him, he created this by using a heat gun to mold Bubble Wrap around a prosthetic limb, providing muscle-like tone and shape to the steel rod.
Congratulations, Grayson, from the IntellectualVillage team!

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