Winners Announced – DaVinci Inventor Showcase

Neverwet

Dan Hobson, winner of the “Inventor of the Year Award” at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase

2011 turned out to be a banner year for the inventors and their products at the seventh annual DaVinci Inventor Showcase. The event took place at the Noah’s Event Center in Westminster, CO amidst a record crowd of attendees.

Winning top prize at this years event was Dan Hobson, CEO of Ross Nanotechnology for their product, NeverWet™, a nano-tech coating that completely repels water. However, this standout technology was only one of many that captured the imaginations of everyone who attended.

Continue reading… “Winners Announced – DaVinci Inventor Showcase”

Global village construction set: Towards a DIY civilization

diy global201111041038

Building a brighter tomorrow for all earths inhabitants.

Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set — a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts…

Continue reading… “Global village construction set: Towards a DIY civilization”

Thrive – The Movie

THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future…

Continue reading… “Thrive – The Movie”

Tank-like robot climbs walls with gecko-inspired feet

gecko-robot.jpg.492x0_q85_crop-smart

This robot can go places most others cannot.

Simon Fraiser University researchers have taken a page from the gecko “walk on any surface” handbook and applied it to a robot that looks a bit like a tank.

If you’ve never seen a gecko just hanging out on glass, it’s rather amazing. Not a whole lot of animals the size of a gecko can manage to just stand there on glass like it’s nothing…

Continue reading… “Tank-like robot climbs walls with gecko-inspired feet”

Toaster Griddle Is the perfect appliance for lonely breakfasts

toaster_griddlelllll

Can you smell it?

If you roll out of bed by yourself in the morning in an empty apartment, breakfast for one doesn’t always have to be just a bowl of cereal. Nostalgia Electric’s griddle packing toaster has just enough room to fry up a couple of eggs or a single pancake…

Continue reading… “Toaster Griddle Is the perfect appliance for lonely breakfasts”

Live longer with fewer calories? Key enzyme involved in aging process found

anti age 111031215938-large

Caloric restriction slows down aging.

By consuming fewer calories, aging can be slowed down and the development of age-related diseases such as cancer and type 2 diabetes can be delayed. The earlier calorie intake is reduced, the greater the effect. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now identified one of the enzymes that hold the key to the aging process…

Continue reading… “Live longer with fewer calories? Key enzyme involved in aging process found”

Four days with the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs

walkinonmoney25342

What’s on the minds of the new minds?

The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder. That much was made clear after the dust settled on f.ounders, an event that has quickly become one of technology’s premiere conferences.

There aren’t many events where you meet two heads of state, eat dinner with Bono, and party with 150 of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. But that’s exactly what happened at the f.ounders conference in Dublin, Ireland last week. The conference brought together the founders of Skype, YouTube, Netflix, Rovio, GroupMe, StumbleUpon, 4chan and more for four days of intensive networking, extravagant dinners and Irish hospitality — you couldn’t walk five steps without somebody offering you a Guinness…

Continue reading… “Four days with the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs”

Abandoned grain silo in France is now an Opera House

grain-silo-theater-3.jpg.468x0_q85_crop-smart

Silo to Opera House?

Overlooking the port of Marseille, one of largest cities in France, used to sit an abandoned grain silo. Situated in a neighborhood slated for renovation, the emblematic and highly visible Arenc Silo, built in 1926-7, faced demolition. But rather than destroy the building and start from scratch with new materials, the City decided to transform it. For the last year, the old silo has been in service as a fully renovated opera house and theater…

Continue reading… “Abandoned grain silo in France is now an Opera House”

Do bacteria age? Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics

bacteria 111027150207

Colony of E. coli bacteria.

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. Bacteria, in other words, don’t age — at least not in the same way all other organisms do…

Continue reading… “Do bacteria age? Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics”

Discover the Hidden Patterns of Tomorrow with Futurist Thomas Frey
Unlock Your Potential, Ignite Your Success.

By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.

Learn More about this exciting program.