Dive into the minds of inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to learn about their inventions, the failures they overcame, and how they took their ideas to market.
Training Nurses with Virtual Patients
How do you train people to talk to other people?
Genetic Disorders and Lung Diseases
Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency, a genetic disorder, is a common factor in lung diseases like COPD and emphysema.
Fixing IBS and Colorectal Cancer
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Electrical Waves to Enhance Musical Instruments
The engineering part of Augi Lye helped solve a problem for his musician self.
Underwater Wireless Networks
George Sklivanitis, founder of Extreme Comms Lab, believes we can build underwater wireless networks.
Computer Components Connected by Light
Computers and smartphones are about to get a lot faster.
Wire-Shaped Supercapacitor
2019 Cade Prize runner-ups Joe Sleppy and Isaiah Oladeji have invented a wire-shaped supercapacitor.
Advanced Padding for Helmets and Athletic Shoes
Auxetic foam is an advanced form of padding for helmets and athletic shoes.
Paul Sanberg and the Florida Inventors’ Hall of Fame
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A Better Ostomy Bag
As a kid and a young man Michael Seres, the founder and CEO of 11 Health, was plagued by Chrons disease and intestinal problems.
Handheld Water-Quality Sensor
With an aging infrastructure, the United States faces more scenarios like Flint, Michigan, where high lead levels became a threat to safety.
High-Quality Optical Filters
Optical filters are made for filtering out parts of the color spectrum that we don’t need, or that are even harmful.
Meet The Hosts
Richard Miles
Richard Miles is a co-founder of the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention. A career Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State, Miles’ assignments included serving with a provincial reconstruction team in Karbala, Iraq and on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House, along with postings in Argentina, Germany, and Barbados. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Miles served as a Latin America policy advisor to Governor Jeb Bush.
James Di Virgilio
James Di Virgilio is one of the country’s leading fiduciary investors and financial planners and is among the elite 1% of the finance industry to hold both CIMA® and the CFP® designations. He is the co-founder of Chacon Diaz & Di Virgilio Wealth Management and was named a Gator 100 Honoree for spearheading one of the fastest-growing companies founded by a University of Florida Alum.
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