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FEER : 4TH YOUNG INVENTORS AWARDS: JUDGES COMMENTS |
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Jeffrey Goh, chief executive officer of Singapore-based Lightspeed Technologies and one of the judges in this year's Young Inventors Awards, describes Inai's work as "simple in concept" but having "a mind-boggling impact." This small step makes it possible to create a predictable environment with hopefully predictable outcomes when used in the human body, Goh explains. "Imagine a vanishingly small fibre. Now put a bunch of them together [and] you get something like paper. Now, if you can make all the fibres line up like little soldiers on a parade ground and you get to control the two layers' alignment, you get something like a woven piece of cloth." (More ...)
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