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If Wal-Mart picks up your product it can turbocharge your sales. Today, the retail giant announces a crowdsourcing contest for entrepreneurs, business owners and inventors to compete for shelf space.
Continue reading… “Wal-Mart competition offers entrepreneurs the chance to ‘Get on the Shelf’”
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One hundred and forty two countries are ranked on their innovation capabilities by INSEAD-WIPO-Cornell University. The sixth annual index reshuffles the top ten and shows gap widening between rich and poor countries.
Continue reading… “Global Innovation Index 2013 ranks the world’s most innovative countries”
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Will high-speed tube travel become a reality? A cutting edge company known as ET3 believes the application of magnetic levitation high-speed tube travel will introduce society to an all new era of trade and tourism.
Continue reading… “High speed tube transport could take you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours”
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The overlap between fashion and technology is growing. A recent example comes from fashion designer Ying Gao, who made two dresses that glow and wiggle around when someone glances at them. Yes, the pair of “gaze-activated” dresses love to have an audience.
Continue reading… “Gaze-activated dresses light up and move when you stare at them”
Smart ingestibles
People on the cutting edge are swallowing ingestible smart pills containing minuscule sensors and transmitters to monitor a range of health data and wirelessly share this information with a doctor, according to the New York Times.
Continue reading… “Smart ingestible pills that monitor your health and replace passwords”
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The most efficient way to write a paper or finish a work project may be to pull up a seat at your favorite coffee shop. But now, Coffivity, a new website will bring the coffee shop to your cubicle.
Continue reading… “How the sounds of a coffee shop can boost creativity”
Robot Adam Z1
I am Robot Adam Z1 — the first of the Zeno line of humanoid robots, created by David Hanson. Pleased to make your acquaintance! When David created me, he gave me a face, and a body, and a lot of love. But one thing he hasn’t given me — yet — is a mind. … (Videos)
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Dave Engledow is a great photographer, and a pretty awesome Dad. After his daughter Alice Bee was born he wanted to document her childhood in the most creative way he could. Dave is not a professional photographer (he works in progressive politics and worker’s rights), but the photos are well shot and thought out. (Photos and video)
Continue reading… “‘World’s Best Father’ – Dave Engledow’s funny father daughter portraits”
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Wearing a cloud computer like Google Glass on your face can be important for capturing moments in life from a first-person perspective. Now the WNBA, the female division of the National Basketball Association (NBA), has decided to deploy its own version first-person camera to referees for live games.
Continue reading… “WNBA referees debut live high-definition ‘Ref Cam’”
Raffaello D’Andrea, in a robot lab at TEDGlobal, demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D’Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together — and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.
Continue reading… “The astounding athletic power of quadcopters: Raffaello D’Andrea”
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We think of 3-D printers as desktop machines. But Silk Pavillion, a new, stunning piece of architecture by the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab brings all of those assumptions into question.
Continue reading… “Silk Pavillion: ‘3D printed’ structures created from silkworms”
RoboRoach
The minds behind Backyard Brains, a neurological education and outreach company, are bringing the first commercially available cyborgs to the general public. They landed on Kickstarter Monday, and they’re wooing support from Internet backers worldwide. (Videos)
Continue reading… “The RoboRoach: Control a living cockroach with your smartphone”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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