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This week in PopTech: High flying and feather powering

Emily Qualey ( Bio / Posts ) | Friday, April 08, 2011 UTC

There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week's highlights follows.

In exciting news, Nathan Eagle's (PopTech 2010) firm, txteagle, has recieved $8.5 million in funding to expand work in fielding mobile phone surveys in developing countries.

The automation technology experts at Festo (PopTech 2008) have created an amazing contraption that looks and flies like a bird. The giant manta ray they brought to PopTech's 2008 closing night party exhibits signs of early experimentation of the flight technology.

Ecomaterials Lab participant and textile chemical engineer Yiqi Yang recently presented a study to the American Chemical Society that described the creation of a new type of plastic polymer comprised of over 50% discarded chicken feather fibers.

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