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 Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei -
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…
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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…
Cracking Open TED Books: Brilliant Ideas in Single Serving Size -
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 Malaysia -
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 Offers -
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…
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//Daniel
Report: First two years of college show small gains -
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…
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study | Wired Science | Wired.com -
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 Feature - NYTimes.com