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ASU team wins $500,000 for inventing fogless facemask
A team of ASU students won $500,000 after inventing a facemask that won t fog up glasses. Author: William Pitts Updated: 5:15 PM MST December 23, 2020
TEMPE, Ariz. A team of ASU students won $500,000 after inventing a new kind of facemask that won t fog up glasses.
The competition was sponsored by the X Prize Foundation, which looks for innovative solutions to the world s problems.
The team of students from ASU s Luminosity Lab developed a two-chamber system that forces air from the nose and mouth out the front of the mask, instead of out the top and under a person s glasses.
Conferences Plot a Comeback Even Before Vaccines Are Widely Distributed
Bloomberg 12/23/2020 Sarah McBride
(Bloomberg) It could take a while before the handshake comes back, if it ever does. Business conferences, however, are set to restart in the U.S. the moment health code allows. And despite uncertainty around when exactly that will be, convention organizers are holding out hope and event space for a possible return in the coming weeks.
One of those optimists is Peter Diamandis. He convened some of his employees at their office in Culver City, California, last Wednesday for a low-key, in-person holiday gathering. There, Diamandis said his flagship annual conference, Abundance 360, was still on for late January in Malibu, California, according to a person familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified. It will feature seminars on technology and entrepreneurialism, as well as a video address from Salesforce.com Inc.’s Marc Benioff.
UC San Diego says the COVID-19 vaccines should be able to defeat the new strain of coronavirus that has spread through much of England, helping throw the country into a frustrating and fearful lock down.
It is also possible that the strain, called B.1.1.7., could have entered the U.S., says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there aren’t definitive signs that has happened.
Scientists in the U.K. said the mutant first surfaced widely in early December and is suspected of being more contagious than the original virus. But that has yet to be confirmed by scientists, and there are other possibilities.