Joel Barker

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How many batteries do you charge every week? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how one innovator says we can cut wasted energy when charging batteries by 90% and save billions every year.
Joel told us 3-D laser printing would be part of our future. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the ways 3-D laser printing of objects will create opportunity and cause disruptions, like laser printed pistol recently demonstrated.
The new normal is getting exciting. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on greenhouses on top of supermarkets, and new brain imaging technology that shows a very orderly organ.
Move over Goldfinger. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a laser weapon the U.S. Navy has produced that can take a plane down, not unlike the fictional one Goldfinger used against James Bond almost 40 years ago.
Are we approaching the limits of our planet's ability to absorb our actions? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on research that proposes we may be approaching the limits of Earth's ability to withstand the behavior of its inhabitants.
Do whales know more about aerodynamics than we do? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on what we're learning from whales about how to develop the leading edges of windmills to increase energy generating efficiency.
A breakthrough in preventing hospital-acquired infections. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a ultra-violet light emitting robot that kills the MRSA pathogens, like staff, that causes 100,000 deaths annually in the U.S.
How 3D printing is accelerating innovations. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on the latest versions of 3-D printers and how a lowered barrier to entry can help inventors and entrepreneurs take an innovation to market sooner.
Your own digestive bacteria could cause plaque to break look in arteries. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on medicine that could prevent digestive bacteria from causing arterial plaque from breaking loose.
What if a pill could cause your body to regenerate a lost part? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a new medicine that could cause our body to regenerate lost hearing elements in our ears.