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"  After the 2006 Breakthrough Awards ceremony, we caught up with half the team of young engineers from Dartmouth College, who were honored with our Next Generation Award (last item).  The GyroBike, developed by Hannah Murnen, Augusta Niles, Nathan Sigworth and Deborah Sperling, sat gleaming in the lobby of the Hearst Tower, while fellow inventors admired the design of the silver gyroscope clamped to the front tire of a red child&amp;#039;s bike.   &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t know much about gyroscopes,&amp;quot; Sigworth admitted. But clearly the learning curve was quick. The product of a school project, their invention fills an untapped niche in the marketplace.  Murnen said their inspiration started with thinking about Sigworth&amp;#039;s passion for unicycling and ways to make that kind of bike more stable. But, as they acknowledged, there isn&amp;#039;t a huge demand for unicycle stabilizers. Hence the application of the young engineers&amp;#039; ideas to a children&amp;#039;s bike.   Thanks to the Dartmouth team, kids trying to learn how to ride a bike in the future are going to have it a lot easier than their parents did. That is, if the GyroBike crew can figure out a plan to officially launch their product in the marketplace. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a great learning experience for us,&amp;quot; Murnen said of the whole process, including building a business plan. --Carolyn Wilsey "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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