Wearable device to help people deal with stress and anxiety on display at Edinburgh Science Festival event

EVENT TONIGHT:

Innovation Late

Monday 8th April at 7.30pm

Dynamic Earth

Innovation Late, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering, is a gathering of some of the most inventive minds in the UK, ready to show off their incredible work for audiences to get hands-on with it.

An evening of celebrating technology excellence, Innovation Late presents the work of previous winners of UK’s premier prize for engineering innovation, the MacRobert Award, named after the trailblazing geologist, suffragette and philanthropist Lady Rachel MacRobert.

Audiences will have a chance to:

  • Listen to artist Ted Humble-Smith talk about his innovative new photography exhibition, in conversation with Morven Cunningham.
  • Meet the AI reincarnation of trailblazing geologist Lady MacRobert
  • Experience the Neurobright light and sound wearable device, designed to help ease anxiety
  • Programme robots and manoeuvre over a Martian landscape
  • Encounter the latest in kidney dialysis technology with Quanta Dialysis Technologies
  • Build a hovercraft
  • Test their construction skills on our earthquake table
  • Make a light theremin and a pencil organ with the adorable bumblebees
  • Find out how Renzor are preventing brain injuries in sport
  • Contribute to a poetical version of the Forth Rail Bridge
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davepickering

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