Because of their new delivery partnership with UberEats, McDonald’s has a soggy French fries problem that they need to solve.…
How the Movies Became Cool
An August release, The Shape of Water could be in theaters during hot summer weather because of the invention of air conditioning.…
Pizza Box Innovation
Sometimes innovation happens where we least expect it. Think of the pizza box. At Domino’s, the key is efficiency. They selected the corner-cut box so that employees could quickly fold hundreds …
Breaking An Environmental Law
Asked by the Pew Center for the People and the Press to rank 21 issues in terms of their significance, global warming was #21. Similarly pessimistic about climate change initiatives, one researcher as…
An Apple's Patent
This apple has bites rather than bytes but like its namesake it was patented and took years to develop. When its U.S. patent expired in 2008, it had generated close to $6 million for the University of…
What's Cooking?
The kitchen that my mother used 50 years ago is really not that different from the one we use today. Electricity, a mechanical refrigerator, and hot and cold running water have been here for a long ti…
Banana Machines
It is tough to design a vending machine that will handle a banana gently. The temperature needs to be 57 degrees, a 4 foot fall to the consumer should be gentle, and they have to remain ripe for as lo…
The Impact of the Vammas
What is 68 feet long, has a giant blade in front for plowing, massive sweeper brushes in the middle, and a 452 MPH wind blowing capacity in the rear? A Vammas. Imported from Finland, the Vammas is use…