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When 30-year-old entrepreneur Lincoln Jore was in college, he started looking for ways to build better power tools. What resulted was a new gasless motor technology so versatile that it's used in everything from hedge trimmers to wind turbines. His tech uses copper-etched conductors embedded into a multilayer circuit board stator, which, when coupled with permanent magnets, allows for high torque at extremely high efficiencies. Recently, he founded CORE Outdoor Power to apply this technology to outdoor power equipment, creating a line that is powerful, noiseless, and emission-free. Read more: What Drives CORE's Quiet Gasless Motors - Popular Mechanics Follow us: @PopMech on Twitter | popularmechanics on Facebook Visit us at PopularMechanics.com

Kubota Corp. Chairman and President Yasuo Masumoto indicated in an interview with Kyoto News on Thursday his readiness to acquire a foreign maker of large field-farming machinery by the end of this year to expand overseas operations, Kyodo News reported