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The Seven Core Roles of Innovation

May 11th, 2005 at 11:37 pm » Comments (0)

Dave Taylor:
Synthesis delivered seven core roles played by innovation, innovators, and innovation managers.



Introducing Centrifugal Weaponry

May 11th, 2005 at 10:41 pm » Comments (0)

A gun that spits out ball bearings after spinning them to extreme speeds is being developed by a US inventor. The novel design has already caught the imagination of some defence industry experts.



Eat Fat to Lose Weight

May 11th, 2005 at 10:26 pm » Comments (0)

Extremely low-fat diets may be good for your heart, but they’re not good for your waistline. Research in mice finds that you need to eat new fat to get rid of old fat.



Putting a Face on King Tut

May 11th, 2005 at 7:34 pm » Comments (0)

The models show a baby-faced young man with chubby cheeks and his family’s characteristic overbite, a weak chin and a pronounced, sloping nose beneath an elongated scalp. Check out these photos.



Low-Cost Space Shuttle Replacement

May 11th, 2005 at 7:24 pm » Comments (0)

No sooner did NASA’s deadline pass for companies to submit proposals for a new passenger space transit system than the agency changed the ground rules — a move that not only will challenge project bidders to accelerate development plans, but also opens the door for a partnership of eclectic space entrepreneurs to demonstrate if it […]



Self-Replicating Robots

May 11th, 2005 at 7:17 pm » Comments (0)

Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.



Google Seeks Second Largest Market

May 11th, 2005 at 12:09 pm » Comments (0)

Web services leader Google Inc. has won a license to operate in China and has bought a Web address as it battles Yahoo Inc. in the world’s second-largest Internet market.



The Wiki-Phone

May 11th, 2005 at 11:56 am » Comments (0)

Know how long the Brooklyn Bridge is? The date of Andy Warhol’s death? The height of the Sears Tower?



E3 Convention to Unveil X-Box 360

May 11th, 2005 at 11:46 am » Comments (0)

It’s just one week until the Electronic Entertainment Expo, when the video-game industry descends on Los Angeles for the world’s most spectacular trade show — one that promises to pack a one-two-three punch to the industry.



Top 10 Annoyance Revenge Stories

May 11th, 2005 at 12:22 am » Comments (0)

Life is full of little annoyances. We would like to hear what tactics - be they petty, passive aggressive or perhaps even mildly effective - that people use to deal with some of them.



‘Customer Made’

May 11th, 2005 at 12:13 am » Comments (0)

Marketing has finally become a conversation. Not, in most cases, as was intended, BETWEEN corporations and consumers (that would make too much sense), but rather a global conversation involving millions of consumers ABOUT corporations.



Swedish Study: Nearly All Murderers are Mentally Ill

May 11th, 2005 at 12:06 am » Comments (0)

Some 90 percent of murderers are mentally ill, a higher percentage than believed previously, according to a Swedish study.