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Selling Lenses at 99 cents added friction to self-expression; once Snap made them free, users made more Snaps, and advertisers paid for Sponsored Lenses.
Ler o casoSharrow tested quiet drone blades in water and found tipless propellers cut cavitation
Greg Sharrow, chasing a quiet drone, prototyped tipless blades in water because it was cheaper, and discovered they sharply reduced cavitation.
Ler o casoSeishoku pressed off-spec dyed fabric into NUNOUS, a new stone-like material
Japan's 1880-founded dyer pressed flawed fabric between biopolymer film so the colours became the material's selling point.
Ler o casoSchiphol plowed 150 ridges into a park to bounce plane noise back up into the sky
After noticing fields got quieter once plowed, Schiphol had a landscape artist shape ridges spaced to deflect low-frequency noise skyward.
Ler o casoPrato de Rua used a sticker to turn Rio dumpsters into leftover-food handoff points
Brazil's Makers Society put stickers on Rio dumpsters inviting people to hang leftovers beside them, sparing scavengers the dig.
Ler o casoPenn put a doctor at the front of its ER so triage happens during the first exam
Before opening its $1.6 billion Pavilion, Penn reversed ER flow: a doctor sees each arrival while triage runs, freeing exam rooms for about three more hours.
Ler o casoPax's Session Control app cuts off the Era vape once a set quota is reached
Vaping has no throat burn to tell users to stop, so Pax let them set a quota in the app and cut off vapor for 30 seconds once reached.
Ler o casoOpenreach found a village's 7am DSL outage by walking it at 6am with a spectrum analyzer
After replacing cables failed, Openreach engineers traced 18 months of daily outages in Aberhosan to one resident's old TV.
Ler o casoNYC's Blue Highways moves parcels by passenger ferry and cargo bike, not truck
New York's Blue Highways pilot moves up to 800 parcels a day from Brooklyn to Manhattan by ferry and cargo bike, not truck.
Ler o casoFlorida Keys scientists shaded corals with shade-cloth umbrellas that cut light by 60%
A Nova Southeastern University test floated farm shade cloths above corals to cut light stress during record heat, and they lost less color.
Ler o casoNorthumbrian Water put a spiked 'Barbarian' in sewers to catch wipes and trace flushers
A spiky metal sewer tool snags wet wipes in fast-flowing pipes so the utility can pinpoint which households flush them.
Ler o casoA Milwaukee NICU renamed babies on wristbands and cut wrong-patient orders 36%
Swapping 'Babygirl Jackson' for 'Wendysgirl Jackson' made newborns easier to tell apart, at the cost of retyping a label.
Ler o casoNetflix bought Disney and Sony streaming rights from Starz instead of from the studios
A contractual loophole let Netflix get Disney and Sony films from Starz for about $30 million a year; by 2012 Disney's content cost an estimated $300 million.
Ler o casoLink trialled no-purchase cashback so corner shops could stand in for closed ATMs
UK cash-machine network Link let small shops hand out cash against a card for no purchase, giving towns without banks free access to cash.
Ler o casoLesotho trial: lottery tickets for staying STI-free cut HIV infections 21.4%
Volunteers who tested negative for curable infections got a lottery ticket instead of a small stipend, and HIV infections fell 21.4% over two years.
Ler o casoKroll Ontrack turned a Lego bulldozer kit into a tape cleaner to win a $600,000 job
Short of staff to hand-clean 5,200 damaged tapes, an engineer turned a Lego kit's motor into a tape cleaner, and the job brought in over $600,000.
Ler o casoKing's Mill's Fit2Sit seats some A&E patients in chairs, cutting waits 40 minutes
A staff idea funded by a Dragon's Den pitch set aside a 19-person chair room so assessed patients stop filling the majors area.
Ler o casoKadeya's vending machine hides a one-bottle-shape dishwasher so bottles refill in place
Kadeya's machine sells water in reusable glass bottles, takes the empty back, and washes it in a dishwasher built for one bottle shape.
Ler o casoIKEA's wedge dowel swaps screws for a threaded peg that snaps into a milled slot
A threaded dowel that snaps into a milled slot let IKEA build sturdier furniture that, by its own estimate, assembles in 50% to 80% less time.
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