Denis O’Brien - Bringing Cell Phones To the Third World
Denis O’Brien keeps pouring money into the world’s poorest, most violent countries. His bet: Give phones to the masses and they’ll fight your enemies for you. …In Trinidad & Tobago, where the state mobile phone firm was dragging its feet on connecting Digicel calls to its […]

 
The bear-attack patient after the successful transplant
A Chinese medical team led by Shuzhong Guo of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an has successfully completed the first transplant to include facial bone in a transplant on a man whose face was slashed by a bear. The Chinese graft included muscles, nerves, blood vessels, cartilage and […]

Futurist Thomas Frey - Imagine yourself walking through a shop, wanting to know more information on a particular product. You pull out your phone, point it at the product and click a button, instantly revealing a page with product information, links to product reviews, and places to purchase it online. Pressing another button you are […]

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This is the iHologram iPhone app by David O’Reilly which let you see 3D object on your iPhone screen. The application works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop.

 
The B&D messenger, designed by Okada Noriaki, bills itself as a way for both blind and deaf people to communicate via text message. Though there are several Braille phone products already in the market, Noriaki device is much smaller in size and pretty inexpensive. On one side of the gadget is twelve points that rise […]

 
If one had to save the number of people who go missing, one would have to be able to track them. GPS and other such technologies usually don’t help.

 
Companies constantly try to woo urban youth, a segment admired by marketers for its substantial disposable income and trend setting tendencies. So given all this, when a raw concept like a youth centric store that’s likely to be developed by Columbus Ohio based Chute Gerderman, its bound to create some hype! The concept named ‘UnionJac’ […]

 
 A computer-generated illustration of a TAU/Plantware “home.”
A bus stop that grows its own foliage as shade? A children’s playground, made entirely from trees? A shelter made from living tree roots that could provide natural protection against earthquakes in California?