Those who play with matches are likely to get burned!
Quote of the Day: “The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.” – Franklin P. Jones
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Small business is big
Small business is an American cultural icon. Companies with fewer than 500 employees account for almost two-thirds of net new jobs and generate 13 times more new patents per employee than large ones do. But optimism among these enterprises is at its lowest levels in almost 20 years. If the US economy had generated as many start-ups in the Great Recession’s aftermath as it did in 2007, the country would have almost 2.5 million more jobs.
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Swarms of small robots could be the servants of the future
A swarm of robots can carry out simple fetching and carrying tasks.
At the Sheffield Center for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, researchers have been working to program a group of 40 robots, and say the ability to control robot swarms could prove hugely beneficial in a range of contexts, from military to medical.
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Pennsylvania stadium installs urinal video games
Urine-controlled video games.
There is a new hands-free gaming technology, according to Reuters’ Joe McDonald: “Play doesn’t need to stop for sports fans taking a bathroom break at a Pennsylvania minor-league baseball stadium that has installed video games in men’s room urinals.”
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Credit Banks, Testing Centers, and Micro-Credits – Missing Elements of a Future Education System
Futurist Thomas Frey: A couple years ago I was on a weekend outing in Vail, Colorado and ended up attending a kayaking tournament taking place on the Gore Creek in the heart of town.
Stanford engineers create biological computer
We’re going to be able to put computers inside any living cell you want,” said lead researcher Drew Endy.
A team of engineers at Stanford University have made a simple computer inside a living cell, where it could detect disease, warn of toxic threats and, where danger lurked, even self-destruct cells gone rogue.
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Startups usher in retail revolution by clearing out cash registers
Business are replacing traditional cash registers with such products as Square’s Business in a Box.
The cash register has reigned as an icon of American commerce ever since the Civil War era. It’s an American ritual to pay for your purchases at the cash register. But, the average point-of-sale (POS) system is expensive, inconvenient to set up and manage and not connected to the internet. Despite all of this, these types of transactions occur a million times every day. The last significant shift happened in the 1950’s when credit card terminals enter the scene.
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Paywalls rise for online news readers
More newspapers adding paywalls to their online subscriptions.
Several newspapers have recently announced plans to erect paywalls to extract subscription revenues for their most loyal online readers. While the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Telegraph, and the Sun are adding paywalls other paywalls are being tweaked. The NYT paywall is getting less porous, while Andrew Sullivan’s is being tightened up, with a new $2/month option to complement the existing $20/year price point.
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Excessive cleanliness may be making us sick
A little dirt never hurt anyone.
Scientific research suggests that all the antibacterial-wiping, germ-killing cleanliness of the developed world may actually be making us more prone to getting sick — and that a little more dirt might help us stay healthier in the long run.
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138 million people worldwide want to live in the U.S.
138 million people want to live in the U.S.
Gallup released new data on migration this week. Around 630 million people – 13% of the world’s adults – say they would like to move to another country permanently. An estimated 138 million people would like to relocate to the United States. The second-most popular destination was the United Kingdom with 42 million potential migrants. The U.S. and U.K. were followed by Canada, France and Saudi Arabia.
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College student creates Veti-Gel that instantly stops bleeding wounds
Joe Landolina pictured on the far left created Veti-Gel.
Twenty-year-old New York University student Joe Landolina is working toward an MS in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials. While trying to get a degree, he has created a gel called “Veti-Gel” that instantly stops bleeding wounds and starts the healing process. (Video)
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Rent a Mourner – a service that hires people to cry at funerals
Rent someone to attend a funeral and have them cry during it.
Are you planning a funeral but you aren’t sure enough people are going to show up? Rent a Mourner, a service that hires people to cry at funerals, might be able to help.
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