When life gives you mud, feel free to get your hands dirty!
Quote of the Week – “That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!” – Homer Simpson
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‘Anti-rape’ lingerie zaps attacker and automatically texts police for help
Engineering students have created underwear which gives any would-be attacker a 3,800 kilovolt shock.
One of the most brutal and heinous crimes imaginable is rape. An undergarment has been designed to disable the attacker with a powerful electric jolt, while letting the cops know where an attack has occurred using GPS coordinates sent by text message.
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Breathprint could one day be used to help diagnose disease
Our breathprint could be used to detect signature metabolites associated with disease.
Our fingerprints are unique to us, but so may be our breath. Compounds in exhaled air produce a unique and stable molecular autograph or “breathprint” – one that could be used to monitor disease or track response to medication.
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Piercing the Field of Knowability
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” – Albert Einstein
Futurist Thomas Frey: As a futurist, I’ve always been interested in our relationship with the future. But lately I’ve become obsessed with understanding more about the dividing line between the present and the future.
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Americans spend an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes per day on smartphones and tablets
Flurry Analytics began measuring mobile usage and helping developers sell ads when the iPhone was barely a year old and Apple had not yet launched the App Store.
A vision of the mobile future
Anywhere, anytime on-demand
More than ever today, our mobile devices are becoming human. They are tailored to our lives and empowering us with new opportunities to connect and learn. Here’s a look at a vision of mobile devices in the year 2020.
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More couples in the U.S. living together instead of marrying
Almost half of young women live with a guy without being married.
According to a government survey released this week, nearly half of young women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren’t married.
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30% of all mobile ad dollars will go to Facebook in 2013
When it comes to mobile display ads, Facebook has already outstripped Google.
Facebook is expected to rake in three out of ten dollars spent on mobile ads in the U.S. this year, says marketing research firm eMarketer.
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Cost of dementia care in the U.S. will double by 2040
Facing the aging of the baby boom generation, the U.S. is unprepared for the coming surge in the cost and cases of dementia.
How much does it cost to care for American’s with dementia? A new study has found that the financial burden is at least as high as that of heart disease or cancer, and it may be even higher. And both the costs and the number of people with dementia will more than double within 30 years, skyrocketing at a rate that rarely occurs with a chronic disease.
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Hyundai’s vision of personal transportation for the future
Hyundai’s E4U personal mobility vehicle
At the Seoul Motor Show this year, Hyundai, the Korean automaker, unveiled the E4U. The E4U is a personal mobility vehicle that moves around using a rotating semisphere instead of wheels.
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Thomas Frey and the future of consciousness being one of baby steps
Futurist Thomas Frey
Daniel Faggella: One of my favorite parts about interviews is that I’m able to bounce ideas off of the people behind the blogs I read. Mr. Thomas Frey is the author at www.ImpactLab.com, and is now known as the Futurist Speaker. Before this, Tom worked for IBM for 15 years and was the only engineer to receive a record-breaking 270-something awards. After a successful career in engineering, he began teaching seminars and workshops on futurist topics in education, business, and beyond.
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80,000 new jobs in the U.S. created by Apple’s iOS app economy in 2012
Apple’s iOS App Store has seen incredible growth and has doubled its payouts to developers (now totaling over $8 billion) and sparked the creation of over 80,000 new jobs directly related to building software for Apple’s mobile platform within the last year.
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