INVENTOR of the mouldable glue technologhy Sugru, Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh, has been named by CNN as one of seven female tech superheroes to watch in 2015.
The 35-year-old Irish scientist created Sugru, a new material that enables it to stick to anything, from glass to wood, and turns into a strong, flexible rubber overnight.
Creator and presenter of innovation series, Digital Futures, Shivvy Jervis, wrote for CNN: “This self-setting material allows people to ‘hack their products’ – modifying, fixing, and generally making regular objects better. Added to that, Sugru is waterproof, adhesive, and heat-resistant.”
Other tech superheroes set to make an impact in 2015:
- Rosalind Picard (52), co-founder of computing and human analytics start-up Empatica, and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab.
- Desiree Vargas Wrigley (32), co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding medical platform,Giveforward.
- Kathryn Myronuk (45), director of research at Singularity University, an organisation devoted to studying how different technologies will affect the world over the next decade.
- Lynette Kucsma (43), co-founder of Natural Machines, a company that makes 3D food printers.
- Nina Tandon (35), co-founder of EpiBone, the world’s first company growing living human bones for skeletal reconstruction.
- Anne Wojcicki (41), founder of one of the world’s largest databases of individual genetic information, 23andme.
