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IEN Radio

Radio for manufacturing and engineering professionals. New industrial products, news and technical articles.

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Update frequency
every day
Average duration
2 minutes
Episodes
937
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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3D-Printed Martian Habitat Nets $500K

3D-Printed Martian Habitat Nets $500K

This week, New York, NY-based AI SpaceFactory won $500,000 by taking first place in NASA's 3D Printed Habitat Challenge. Now, if that sentence alone can't get kids interested in STEM, we're beyond sa…

00:01:25  |   Thu 16 May 2019
Researchers Make More Affordable Fuel Cell

Researchers Make More Affordable Fuel Cell

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new fuel cell that reportedly lasts 10 times longer than any other current technology. 

The researchers believe that this advanceme…

00:01:08  |   Thu 16 May 2019
Congress Cracks Down on Manufacturer’s ‘Extreme Profit Margins’

Congress Cracks Down on Manufacturer’s ‘Extreme Profit Margins’

The U.S. House of Representatives has begun investigating a Cleveland-based supplier and aerospace manufacturer for “extreme profit margins” and “excess profit”.

The remarks stem from reports that Tra…

00:02:38  |   Thu 16 May 2019
Designer Creates Floating U.F.O. Timeshares

Designer Creates Floating U.F.O. Timeshares

Pierpaolo Lazzarini wants to build an unidentified floating object. The U.F.O. 1.2 has been under development for about three years and now the Italian designer is finally ready to make his floating …

00:01:51  |   Thu 16 May 2019
Engineer Gets 2.5 Years in Prison for Bribery, Fraud

Engineer Gets 2.5 Years in Prison for Bribery, Fraud

A Hawaiian engineer was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribing public officials in Hawaii and the Federated States of Micronesia. 

53-year-old Frank James Lyon pleaded guilty to paying $250,000 …

00:02:02  |   Wed 15 May 2019
Hellfire Cuts Like Swords from the Heavens

Hellfire Cuts Like Swords from the Heavens

The Hellfire missile offers an interesting perspective, not just on military technology, but product lifecycle in general.

The missile was initially developed with a shaped charge, which means the exp…

00:02:11  |   Tue 14 May 2019
Will All Wheel Drive Save the Sedan?

Will All Wheel Drive Save the Sedan?

Edmunds.com says that more than 63 percent of the new vehicles sold last year were SUVs or trucks, which is no surprise to automakers who have spent the last few years slashing their small car models…

00:01:44  |   Mon 13 May 2019
DoD Won’t Let Sonar Supplier Walk Away

DoD Won’t Let Sonar Supplier Walk Away

Typically, if there’s demand, someone will figure out how to supply a product. However, in the case of a key naval defense asset, even a contract that has grown by more than to 50 percent in three ye…

00:02:22  |   Thu 09 May 2019
Ohio Town Solves the Mystery of the Blocked Key Fob

Ohio Town Solves the Mystery of the Blocked Key Fob

There was something eerie about this situation out of Ohio that was putting some residents on edge: in the small town of North Olmsted -- a suburb west of Cleveland -- people were finding that their …

00:01:40  |   Thu 09 May 2019
Smart Suitcase Helps Visually Impaired Travelers

Smart Suitcase Helps Visually Impaired Travelers

Running through an airport probably isn’t anyone’s idea of a particularly good time, but for the visually impaired, the air travel experience can be an especially daunting one.

Navigating swarms of pe…

00:01:33  |   Wed 08 May 2019
Lawsuit After Man Dies Under 'Avalanche’ of Salt

Lawsuit After Man Dies Under 'Avalanche’ of Salt

On April 30, 2017, 60-year-old Lawrence Ray Shiner Jr. was repairing a 145-foot-tall boiler at the Kapstone Paper and Packaging paper mill in North Charleston, SC. 

While he was repairing the boiler, …

00:01:52  |   Tue 07 May 2019
Adidas a Victim of its Popularity

Adidas a Victim of its Popularity

It looks like Adidas isn’t just for Run DMC anymore.

The company is having a banner year, dazzling investors by beating forecasts in the first quarter, though its explosive growth has an unwanted bedf…

00:01:34  |   Mon 06 May 2019
SUVs Run Smart Cars Out of the U.S.

SUVs Run Smart Cars Out of the U.S.

Roughly a decade after being introduced to the U.S. market, Daimler recently announced that it will stop selling the infamous ForTwo Smart vehicle in the U.S. and Canada after the 2019 model year. 

De…

00:02:10  |   Fri 03 May 2019
Samsung's Galaxy Fold Fails

Samsung's Galaxy Fold Fails

Early reviews of Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold have been critical of the new folding screen, but I think the most hilarious came from iFixit as part of the website’s product teardown, “Like a beautiful b…

00:01:52  |   Fri 03 May 2019
Researchers Fight Fire with Nanocellulose

Researchers Fight Fire with Nanocellulose

Researchers from VTT Technical Research Center in Finland have created a new coating using nanocellulose.

Nanocellulose naturally adheres to wood and forms an airtight film on the surface. This makes …

00:01:06  |   Fri 03 May 2019
Researchers Finally Made the Magic Fat Pill

Researchers Finally Made the Magic Fat Pill

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU Singapore) have finally created the one true magic pill to fight obesity. The team has developed a prototype capsule that inflates …

00:01:41  |   Fri 03 May 2019
Man Arrested for $72M Counterfeit Component Scheme

Man Arrested for $72M Counterfeit Component Scheme

On April 16, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 44-year-old man in California for overseeing a scheme to smuggle $72 million in counterfeit Apple and Samsung cellphone co…

00:02:14  |   Thu 02 May 2019
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