Nalge made vaccine storage bottles bounce instead of shatter
Nalge's plastic lab bottles cut breakage risk by replacing glass vaccine containers with rugged polymer vessels.
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1,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDLambda MicroEgg: HO e-graph with Miller patterns and capture-avoiding substitution
Philip Zucker extended the microegg e-graph with binders, Miller patterns, and lambda-free higher-order application enabling scoped alpha-aware rewriting.
Read the caseWiki for Minorities helps Burkina Faso document minority cultures on Wikipedia
Wiki for Minorities Burkina trained 21 people to edit Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons content, giving marginalized groups tools to tell their stories.
Read the caseShopify migrates Shop app from React Native to native using AI coding agents in 12 weeks
Shopify used AI‑assisted coding agents to rewrite its Shop app in Swift and Kotlin, cutting startup time by up to 50% and improving stability.
Read the caseShenzhen's bus group electrified 6,000 buses by leasing them over their whole life
SZBG turned a brutal capex problem into rent: 8-year leases equal to bus life, batteries returned to the maker, charging owned by specialists.
Read the caseMIT Libraries shifts MIT Reads to fiction and memoir to boost social connection in AI era
MIT Libraries reoriented its MIT Reads program toward fiction and memoir to foster empathy and shared reflection amid growing AI influence on campus.
Read the caseCeará's COGERH made drought rationing a public negotiation over measured storage
A self-funding water agency and user commissions set each year's reservoir quotas in public, turning Ceará's drought politics into arithmetic.
Read the caseAhmedabad's Janmarg studied Delhi's failed BRT and built India's first working one
Ahmedabad inverted each of Delhi's BRT mistakes — central lanes, set-back stations, a closed system, one company — and ridership grew tenfold in two years.
Read the caseYamazaki Baking: the daily bread run that doubles as Japan's emergency food relay
Yamazaki built no disaster program: its bread reaches stores every morning, so when quakes break Japan, resuming the daily routine is the relief operation.
Read the caseMicrosoft's $30 wired Adaptive Joystick made accessibility gear a product family
Xbox shipped a single $29.99 wired joystick for players with limited mobility — cheap, light, remappable, built to plug into setups players already own.
Read the caseWWF-Malaysia turned wedding backdrops into anti-finning messages at the banquet itself
Shark fin soup is synonymous with Chinese-Malaysian wedding banquets, so WWF let marrying couples turn the backdrop every guest faces into the case against it.
Read the caseWorkman built e-commerce to feed its stores and moved to abolish home delivery
The Japanese workwear chain runs store-complementing e-commerce — order online, collect in one of 1,000 shops — with pickup nearing 90% of orders
Read the caseCargill put 37.5-metre steel sails on a chartered bulk carrier and cut its fuel bill
Two rigid WindWings bolted onto the Pyxis Ocean saved up to 11 tonnes of fuel a day — wind as a retrofit, verified by DNV after six months at sea.
Read the caseVine and Matthews read the seafloor as a magnetic tape recorder of Earth's reversals
In 1963 Vine and Matthews showed the seafloor's zebra stripes record geomagnetic reversals as crust spreads — the ocean floor dates itself.
Read the caseMichigan redesigned its campus bus network as hubs and spokes to run buses half full
University of Michigan researchers rebuilt campus bus routes with a hub-and-spoke MIP design so the same fleet could run at 50% capacity under COVID rules.
Read the caseThe unit-dose package: how hospitals made the medicine carry its own record
Keep every dose sealed in its own labeled container until the moment of administration — the package becomes the record and the ward stops being a pharmacy.
Read the caseBritain's wind auction drew zero bids, so it raised the price cap and reran the round
Five rounds of ratcheting the offshore wind price cap down met inflation and produced no bidders. The fix was not a subsidy — it was letting the price clear.
Read the caseTurkey merged four health insurers and put pay-for-performance in all 850 state hospitals
In 2003 Turkey had four strapped insurers and a quarter of its poor covered; the health reform merged the payers and paid hospitals per treated case.
Read the caseTransfreight's MIP balanced crossdock workload and cut costs on Toyota Kentucky inbound
A mixed-integer program assigned inbound trailers to dock doors at Transfreight's Georgetown crossdock, balancing worker workload and cutting costs.
Read the caseTouch-Tone sent dialing as voice-band tones, and its tested keypad became the world's
Bell replaced rotary pulses with tone pairs riding the ordinary voice channel — no new lines needed — and its tested 3×4 keypad became the world's standard.
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