Year: 2012

Impact Lab > 2012
Business, facebook, Internet, Latest Trend

Facebook’s silent majority holds the key to the company’s future

If Facebook can persuade that silent majority to become more engaged in the site its future looks pretty bright.

Facebook is a pretty divisive company. One group took to the the social network, sharing their lives in updates and shifting a good portion of their social interactions onto Facebook’s sprawling social graph. The other group  took the opposite direction, avoiding the site entirely, or canceling their accounts, or griping as they came to endure Facebook as a necessary evil of being online.

 

 

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Science & Technology News

Poker takes flight with Card Parlour Darts

Combining Darts with Poker. What a great idea!

Card Parlour Darts is a patented poker darts game that uses a regulation steel-tip dart board to combine the thrill of throwing darts with the strategy and popularity of poker.

Card Parlour Darts is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. An impressive array of innovations will be on hand, so come and check out all the unique inventions!

Recently, company founder Charles Hanes took time to answer a few questions about the wonderful world of darts and adding Card Parlour Darts rooms to Casinos…

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Anticipatory Computing: Unlocking the Ultra-Human in All of Us


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Futurist Thomas Frey: Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your television and it instantly knew what show you wanted to watch?

We all dream of an easier life, so what if we got into our car and it knew where we wanted to go, or turned on a radio and it played the perfect music, or pressed “call” on our phone and we would instantly be connected to the person we most wanted to talk to.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

Why Apple announces iPhone cost and availability when competitors don’t

It just makes sense to announce pricing and ship dates as soon as they’re known.

When Apple has a new product coming out, one of the nice things they do is tell you how much it will cost and when it will go on sale.  Apple’s competitors only sometimes do and that is especially true in the phone industry.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Scientific research threatened by fraud and misconduct

Scientists, like anyone else, can be prone to bias in their bid for a place in the history books.

For several years, Dirk Smeesters had spent his career as a social psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam studying how consumers behaved in different situations. He studied whether color had an effect on what consumers bought or if death-related stories in the media affected how people picked products. And whether it was better to use supermodels in cosmetics advertising than average-looking women.

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New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

DNA from a crime scene could help police create an image of suspect’s face

The genes researchers found only have small effects, and are only linked with a limited number of features.

One day, police may be able to reconstruct the shape of a suspect’s face from their DNA. Thanks to identification of five genes that contribute to facial shape and features that possibility is getting closer.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Entertainment, Great New Product, New Inventions, Space

Zeta Launcher turns alien technology into magnetic kids toys

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 The Zeta Launcher brings surprise and mystery to futuristic toy cars with magnetic propulsion.

Zeta Launcher is a toy that is safe and easy to use for ages 4+ that not only launches a small car using only permanent magnets (no batteries, no electricity nor springs), but also “vacuums” it up a small ramp, auto-adjusts it and locks it in place for re-launch.

Pebblebrook Toys (maker of the Zeta Launcher) is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, so come and check out this along with an amazing selection of other unique inventions!

Recently, company founder Jeff Cook took time to answer a few questions about their magnetic propulsion mechanism,  having a 3-man CAD team, and their Zeta Reticuli origins…

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Analysis, Business, Economy

If you want more jobs in America, you need more immigrants

Obama signs the JOBS Act

Poyan Rajamand faced a choice when he completed his degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2008. Would he look for work in the United States or relocate abroad? Rajamand explained in a report written by the Partnership for a New America Economy and the Partnership for New York City, that he and his fiancé arrived at their decision easil.  They would  move to Singapore, where obtaining a visa was simpler for high-skilled immigrants than here in the United States. In his new home, Rajamand has founded a startup called Barghest Partners that invests in new businesses.

 

 

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