February 2012
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Inside INTERPOL's New Cybercrime Innovation Center →
January 2012
1 post
Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain, Heart and... →
December 2011
1 post
Haifa may host Apple innovation center →
October 2011
4 posts
Corporations Must Become Socially Conscious... →
This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO’s Role in Fixing the System. I recently heard that the only group held in lower regard than corporate executives in the United States is…
Launching Effective Start-ups in Governments →
Government “start-ups” — new agencies, offices, or initiatives — have the potential to be a powerful tool for solving critical policy problems at the local, state, and federal levels. But while…
Venture Capitalist predicts a new genetically... →
Technology Review - The ability to engineer life is going to spark a revolution that will dwarf the industrial and digital revolutions, says Juan Enriquez, a writer, investor, and managing director…
The Anywhere Office
September 2011
2 posts
Do-It-Yourself Climate Modeling →
Climate Wizard lets you see the various climate predictions for where you live. They’re not pretty.
If you’re curious about what 16 reputable climate models say about the future of your…
Bill Clinton and How to Use Convening Power →
The best CEOs do it. Effective entrepreneurs do it. Middle managers who become change agents do it. Individuals with passion do it. Weak leaders are too timid to do it. On September 20-22 former…
August 2011
2 posts
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO →
In news breaking just minutes ago, Apple has announced that Steve Jobs, one of Android’s main detractors, has resigned from his position as CEO of the company. Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief…
The Soylentularity, The Zizekularity, And Three... →
The Singularity. That exciting future moment drawing all too near when artificial intelligence finally surpasses the human variety, leading to an unimaginable Matrix-like universe of…
March 2011
2 posts
Gadget Lab Notes: DIY Laser Gun Melts All In Its... →
This DIY laser pistol can send out a kW-pulse of infrared coherent light.
DIY Pulse Laser Pistol Can Decimate Styrofoam and Plastic
Built by Patrick Priebe, this Pulse Laser Gun sends…
The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor... →
More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest’s massive…
February 2011
6 posts
GreenGoose - Track your lifestyle →
Sensors measure actions you take to reach goals that you select. They’re wireless, battery-powered, and all a little different. They communicate with a gateway you plug into your broadband router. Installation takes less than five minutes and you can do it yourself.
Wireless Power Lightens Up Cereal Boxes →
“eCoupled intelligent wireless power is so flexible it can actually be printed directly onto packaging. A low-cost enhancement to product packaging, printed coils allow real-time communication…
Revolution in the Middle East: The Influence of... →
The Middle Eastern powder keg has exploded. Over the past month, protests have rocked a laundry list of countries including Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Egypt, and Tunisia. A pan-Arab youth movement has so…
China's innovation goals for 2020 →
he Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced Innovation 2020 goals
Special emphasis is on four key areas, namely space science, information technology, energy and health.
Innovation 2020…
January 2011
8 posts
Cracking Open TED Books: Brilliant Ideas in Single... →
TED talks are popular for a number of reasons: they’re smart, lively, and perhaps most importantly, concise. Most talks are capped at approximately 2,000 words—just long enough for…
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Hit the Forests of... →
Modern technology is dengue fever’s new enemy.
Malaysia released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a local forest this month in an effort to curb dengue fever—dengue fever is…
German Researchers Build Terminator Robot Hand →
Warning: Do not watch this video if you lay awake at night, kept from sleep by the terrifying knowledge that one day soon the human race will be thrown into slavery by The Machines. For the…
Google launches a competitor to Groupon with... →
Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, the search giant’s Groupon competitor, Mashable has learned.
Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an…
Anonymous asked: what to have for dinner
Report: First two years of college show small... →
Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority, a new report shows.
Citibank Opens "Bank of the Future" in New York →
Honeycomb: Android for Tablets →
Google has accidentally made public a YouTube video that shows Android 3.0 in action. It’s a completely new interface for tablets that borrows a lot of ideas from BumpTop, the 3D desktop software…
December 2010
6 posts
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study | Wired... →
A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, 25 8- to 10-year-old children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns.
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation →
Geoffrey West doesn’t eat lunch. His doctor says he has a mild allergy to food; meals make him sleepy and nauseated. When West is working — when he’s staring at some scribbled equations on scratch paper or gazing out his office window at the high desert in New Mexico — he subsists on black tea and nuts.
The 10th Annual Year in Ideas - Interactive... →
Delete Button for the Internet: Tool Removes... →
Remember the 1995 movie The Net—when Sandra Bullock frightened audiences with the prospect of having your identity deleted in cyberspace? How times have changed. With the rise of…
November 2010
7 posts
Inside the United Nations' Innovation Overhaul →
A project called “Global Pulse” is quietly building and taking over one of the world’s largest bureaucracies.
The United Nations is one of the world’s largest organizations—managing agencies…
The crucial role of networks in helping firms... →
Interpersonal networks within organizations have a huge influence on how successfully firms can generate and execute new ideas, says innovation professor Tim Kastelle.
Sorry, Facebook Fans, Likes Not Correlated to... →
“Is there a connection between aggressive social media and the ultimate political metric: winning your election?”
That’s the question posed by online campaign consultancy firm…
Why People Want Less Choice →
I write and talk a lot about Enterprise 2.0 and the new cornucopia of technologies that let people come together, interact, and collaborate with virtually no preconditions. No workflows, no set…
The Mathematics of War: Sean Gurley Discovers... →
pThe PopTech science fellow started by looking at attacks in Iraq, then studied conflicts in different parts of the world, and discovered the same mathematical patterns./pppimg class=float-center…
The ATMs of the Future →
How NCR is rethinking the cash machine.
The boxy frame, the greasy touch screens, the seemingly endless series of bleeps and bloops required to produce your cash — there’s not much to love…
October 2010
5 posts
Google Voice powers TV fan building →
One of the great parts of working on the Google Voice team is that we get to hear about all the interesting, productive, and fun ways you take advantage of Google Voice. Sometimes we hear from…
Hybrid Credit Card Gives Redemption at the Press... →
Redemption sounds like the kind of credit card you would want with you at the Pearly Gates, ready to slip a bribe to the doorman, Saint Peter, to let you come inside. It is not. The…
Exploring Brand Vision, Mission And Values →
Regular readers of Branding Strategy Insider know we welcome and answer marketing questions of all types. Today, Lee, a Marketer in Sydney, Australia asks… “Brad and Derrick, what is the…
September 2010
10 posts
AOL and Google Gobbling Israeli Startups →
The past few months have been fruitful for Israeli startups. Several U.S. and European tech giants have made high-profile acquisitions. Foreign VCs are making massive capital injections. Now…
Apple Logo Is an Agnostic's Crucifix, Star of... →
As it’s stated in the book of Jobs: Thou shalt not worship false iPhones.
Or so goes the thinking in a new study from Duke University, which concludes: “The brand name logo on a laptop or…
“No More, No Less” Faucet Precisely Pre-measures... →
No More No Less Faucet by Jasper Hou. Image via Yanko Design.
This high-tech faucet solves two problems, both for you and for the environment. First, no more wasting water down the drain…
Coca-Cola's Green Bottle, One Year On →
It’s been over a year since Coca-Cola introduced the PlantBottle, made from a mix of petroleum-based materials and up to 30% plant-based materials. We were a bit skeptical of the bottle…
The Surest Way to Destroy an Innovation Initiative →
There are three, and only three, models for organizing innovation that work. The first is the “turn the masses loose” model, also known as the “innovation is everyone’s job, every day” model. It…