Yinka Ogunbiyi successfully raised funding for her innovative device, set to revolutionize the professional hair-braiding industry. In 2025, Ogunbiyi, a biomedical engineer holding a bachelor’s, a ...

Mechanizing the production of textiles was a major part of the industrial revolution, and with the convenience of many people are recreating the classic machines. A perfect example of this is [Fraens] ...

If there’s something more fascinating than watching cleverly engineered industrial machines do their work, we don’t know what it could be. And at the top of that list has to be the machines that do ...

*For millions of braid wearers, getting a new style can mean spending an entire day in a salon chair. For the stylists creating those looks, it often means hours of repetitive work that can take a ...

Black folks —and women in particular — are familiar with the exhausting process of getting our hair braided, or worse, receiving a “Hey girl” text from our stylists, meaning our hair’s not getting ...