Some of the highlights on this year’s list are the world’s largest computer chip, a transparent TV, a reinvented stovetop, a treadmill for people bound to a wheelchair, several medical-related ...
Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).
The invention comes from researchers at Australia's RMIT University and was developed in collaboration with Latvia's Riga Technical University. The main innovation is in fabricating patches made ...