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Dura-Tent keeps the bugs off your grub

Dura-Tent is the tabletop “food tent.”  It is great for picnics, parties, BBQs, banquets, camping, RVs, and all your outdoor dining needs. Dura-Tent will provide you with peace of mind for all your party and picnic food safety concerns.

Dura-Tent is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to check out a Dura-Tent and many other amazing innovations.

Recently, inventor Dan Rothweil took a moment answer some questions about food safety, eating near a pool, and house fly transmitted pathogens.

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Five predictions on the future of gamification

Gamification – integrating game dynamics into your site, service, community, content or campaign, in order to drive participation.

Margaret Wallace, chief executive of Playmatics and moderator at the the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab event on gamification, asked where gamification, or the use of game-play mechanics in non-game applications, is going next. In 15 seconds or less, the panelists answered.

 

 

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Data Scientist is the sexiest career of the 21st century

The shortage of data scientists is becoming a serious constraint in some sectors.

In June 2008 Jonathan Goldman arrived at LinkedIn for work, the business networking site still felt like a startup.  LinkedIn had a little under 8 million accounts but that number was growing quickly.  Users weren’t seeking out connections with the people who were already on the site at the rate executives had expected.  Something was missing in the social experience. As one LinkedIn manager put it, “It was like arriving at a conference reception and realizing you don’t know anyone. So you just stand in the corner sipping your drink—and you probably leave early.”

 

 

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Entertainment, Great New Product, Music, New Inventions

Feel the noise with Sound in 3D

 

 Tactile sound engineering in action.

Sound in 3D  is the next generation in “tactile” sound technology. It is poised to have a profound impact on the entertainment industry, including home theater, music production, movie production, education, and health.

Sound in 3D  is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to experience Sound in 3D and many other amazing innovations.

Recently, inventor Robert LaDonne took a moment answer some questions about “feeling” sound frequencies and the potential sound therapy applications…

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

In Search of the Next Great Addiction

Is the cool glow of a smartphone the sure sign of an addict?

What exactly do you do here, I’ve been meaning to ask. Because I’m the producer, right? I cook. But from what I can tell, you are just a drug addict! You are a pathetic junkie too stupid to understand and follow simple rudimentary instructions!” – – Walter White from the hit TV show “Breaking Bad.”

Futurist Thomas Frey: Addiction is a word seething with negative connotations. It implies that someone is out of control with their life, making bad decisions with their money, and placing everyone around them at risk.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Three out of four startups fail – a venture capital secret

If you start a business, odds are that your company will fail.

It may look easy from the outside. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s.  But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites.

 

 

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Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Information decay is eating away our web history

One of the characteristics of the modern media age  is that we are surrounded by vast clouds of rapidly changing information, whether it’s blog posts or news stories or Twitter and Facebook updates. That’s great if you like real-time content, but there is a not-so-hidden flaw — namely, that you can’t step into the same stream twice, as Heraclitus put it. In other words, much of that information may (and probably will) disappear as new information replaces it, and small pieces of history wind up getting lost. According to a recent study, which looked at links shared through Twitter about news events like the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East, this could be turning into a substantial problem.

 

 

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Analysis, Robots, Science & Technology News

The artificial intelligence revolution is here and how it is changing our lives

Where do humans fit in?

Nikolas Janin, who lives in Silicon Valley,  get’s up every morning for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. He is the shop manager and fleet technician at Google.  In the mornings Janin gets dressed and heads out to his Lexus RX 450h for the trip on California’s freeways. That’s when his the car takes over. Mr. Janin’s ride is one of Google’s self-driving vehicles and it is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver’s seat.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Is the era of the personal computer over?

PCs consumed the majority of memory chips since sometime in the 1980s until 2012.

We have been hearing for years about the so-called Post-PC Era.  But now it seems pretty hard to argue with.  Personal computers no longer consume the majority of the world’s memory chip supply as of this year.

 

 

 

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DNA sequencing is improving faster than Moore’s law

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The cost of sequencing genomes has declined 50% faster per year than the cost of computers, since 2007. Declining sequencing costs have been due to a combination of Moore’s law and massive scaleups. An author and an expert on the life sciences industry, Juan Enriquez, runs a venture capital fund that invests in life science startups that could produce useful products and treatments within the next five years.  He also engages in more long-term forecasting. In an interview for Next Big Future, Enriquez discusses the exponential rate of change for biotechnology with Sander Olson. Enrique also discusses why he believes that the changes wrought by the biosciences during the next three decades could surpass the industrial revolution in importance. (video)

 

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The five big lies of inventors: Common misconceptions can cause the best ideas to fall flat

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The DaVinci Inventor Showcase will take place on Oct 13th

The economic downturn has forced us to rethink our lives. For many, this means a time of stepping into the workshop to give shape to ideas that have been waiting for the right opportunity to emerge.

While Hollywood likes to portray inventors as the wacky mad-scientist type, nothing is further from the truth. Inventors may be wired differently, but for the most part they are very dedicated, hard-working individuals bent on making the world a better place.

But in the business world, few things go according to plan. New products are especially prone to commercial failure. Many of the failures stem from common misconceptions that steer us radically off course. Here are five big lies that will give you a more realistic picture of how to make the grade in the world of invention…

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