NJIT`s Chrystoff Camacho Wins an Edison Patent Award for an Aerial Reforestation Device
(World News Science)

Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at NJIT, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award last night from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his drone-deployed seed capsule. Camacho`s device, a biodegradable packet containing seeds and mineral-rich soil, is loaded into what looks like a tiny missile that is dropped from the air. With its cone tip, it is designed to perforate the ground to implant the capsule, but to also allow water to permeate in dry regions where the land is baked hard. He says a trip...