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High-tech street sweeper: The Johnson 5000 sweeper, designed and built by Johnson Engineering Ltd. in southern England, easily accesses narrow city streets.

Air Force explores composite cargo plane.

AZPrinter 450 3D printer quickly make relatively inexpensive prototypes.

Biomedical devices make the Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 medical innovations for 2010.

LED-based surgical lighting from Steris Corp.

A tongue-activated sensor lets patients paralyzed from the neck down maneuver a wheelchair or run a computer program.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology develop a method to radiation-harden microchips.

Shock monitor tracks jolts and jiggles: Mini Shock, an electronic impact recorder from the French company, Sensorex, measures shocks and jolts and stores the 128 largest incidents, along with their date and time.

NIST researchers determine that faulty design was the likely cause of the collapse of the Dallas Cowboy’s practice facility during a windstorm.

Engineer Blair Gotell designed what he calls the Stack-a-Buoy for fisherman. Intended for use with lobster lines, the buoys are easy to store and transport because they can be stacked even while attached to a rope.

Automation Fair 2009 stresses energy management, plant-wide optimization, and better performance by global equipment manufacturers.

NSF International has devised a new eco-efficiency protocol, NSF Protocol 352 (NSF P352), for the validation and verification of eco-efficiency analyses.

The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) say aluminum cans are experiencing the highest recycling rate of any beverage container at 54.2%.

A recent IBM global corporate social-responsibility (CSR) survey of senior business executives shows a lot of companies are having trouble attaining the sustainability goals they set for themselves.