Futurist Thomas Frey: Would you buy a product that was advertised as “Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?”
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Wireless braking system for bicycles
Professor Holger Hermanns with his prototype wireless bicycle braking system.
Wireless gear-shifting for bicycles has been around for the past few years. Now someone has developed a wireless braking system. Created by computer scientists at Germany’s Saarland University, the current prototype still looks a little boxy, but it does do away with cables and brake levers. According to computer algorithms that would normally be used in control systems for aircraft or chemical factories, the system should offer 99.999999999997 percent reliability – that means it would fail three times out of a trillion braking attempts.
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Wages remain stagnant and won’t catch up until 2021
Not even a college degree is going to help much.
Is this the New Normal? Incomes have fallen since the new millennium began and aren’t expected to catch up until 2021, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of economists’ forecasts.
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Baby plays with a magazine like it’s an iPad: video
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Today kids think the world revolves around them. They think that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
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Materialistic couples have more relationship problems: study
Focusing on money and possessions can take a toll on couples’ happiness and stability.
Married couples who are materialistic may have more money, but they also have more relationship problems, according to a new study.
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The cycle of life is a beautiful thing
Behold nature and its wonders! Tobias Lunchbreath understands that true happiness lies in the Oreo-fueled cycle of life.
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The rise of Customer-Driven innovation
Crowdsourcing for innovation.
Numerous studies demonstrate that 70-80% of all new products fail. Lack of relevance, lack of differentiation, inappropriate pricing and muddled messaging all factor into a brand’s struggle when launching a new product.
However, the ultimate judgment of new products falls to consumers, who, ironically, are often absent from the development process. That development stage stands the greatest chance of generating transformative new ideas early on, before the brand has made a significant investment…
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Will you leave your passwords for your loved ones when you die?
Where do passwords go when you die?
I have pretty secure passwords, as much to keep would-be miscreants at bay as to keep my friends and family from finding out just how horrible a life I’m living. But according to a study, a full 11 percent of Brits plan to leave their passwords in their will.
There’s some sense to that, actually…
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Marchi Mobile’s futuristic RV is available in the present
The eleMMent
If you are in the market for a futuristic and slightly bizarre motor home it’s check out the eleMMent. You’ll be the envy of the trailer park when you pull up in this 500 horsepower, 40-foot long monstrosity, which features a fireplace, a pop-up sky lounge with fog machine, and paint that glows in the dark. (Pics)
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The car will be the next big boom in mobile technology
Cars are about to get connected to the internet like never before.
One of the great mobile devices we have is the car. And cars are about to get connected to the Internet like never before. Not only will it change how we drive, but it will change the economics of the car business as well.
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Banks demolish forclosed homes to ease housing market pressures
It has become cheaper for banks to demolish forclosed property than to continue to hold onto it.
The sight of excavators tearing down vacant buildings has become common in the foreclosure-ravaged city of Cleveland. The housing crisis hit this area early and hard. But the story behind the recent wave of demolitions is novel — and cities around the country are taking notice.
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Wireless subscribers outnumber people in the U.S.
There are more than 327 million wireless subscriptions in the U.S.
A new survey was released by CTIA yesterday with some interesting data on wireless subscribers in the U.S. The survey covers January 2011 through June 2011.
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