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Goofy Facebook shower curtain

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Hey look! I’m on Facebook in the shower?

This Facebook themed shower curtain isn’t creepy because of the graphics or text printed on it, but rather because it assumes you’ll have people spying on you while you take a shower!

And, while it may be meant for couples or roommates comfortable with sharing their shower time with others, I’m sure even in those situations it would get old quickly, prompting them to wonder “where did you put the plain old shower curtain I used to know and love?”

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Medical Breakthrough, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

7 top medical breakthroughs coming in the next decade

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Nanobot

An effective treatment for Alzheimer’s, a cure for the common cold, gene therapy that destroys cancers, transplant organs grown in the lab.  These medical miracles are no longer the dreams of science fiction, but are likely coming in the next decade, say experts.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Great New Product, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

Office ceilings mimic lighting of cloudy days with new LED design

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Will LED ceilings improve our office moods?

We know that nature makes us nicer, but can we bring nature inside virtually and still keep the positive effects? researchers from the Stuttgart-based Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO want to find out with an interesting concept for making an office ceiling look like the sky, complete with rolling clouds.

The ceiling, which extends the entire length and width of the room, simulates lighting conditions similar to what you’d experience sitting out on a lawn somewhere, with slight variations as clouds pass over. The goal is to make you feel like you kind of are sitting out on a lawn somewhere…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Education, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

Why salespeople make bad fundraisers

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Who is and is not the best one to head up the fundraising?

Company founders are the quintessential cheerleaders, promoting their vision and company every chance they get. But that doesn’t mean that they are necessarily the best at two core functions: selling and fundraising (and many are bad at both but excel at other functions, like technology).

While generating revenue and raising capital require a lot of the same traits, in my experience those who are good at one tend to be poor at the other…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News, top 10

Year in Review: Top 10 Articles on FuturistSpeaker.com

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Futurist Thomas Frey: The sixth law of the future states, “The “unknowability” of the future is what gives us our drive and motivation.”

The fact that the future is unknowable is a good thing. Our involvement in the game of life is based on our notion that we as individuals can make a difference. If we somehow remove the mystery of what results our actions will have, we also dismantle our individual drives and motivations for moving forward.

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Animals, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, New Viewpoints

Extreme grooming for animals

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Punk Bird

Absolutely no photoshoppery involved here, no siree. I refuse to believe that punk bird is anything less than real, so I can’t tell you how Mladen Penev got animals to sit still long enough for impressive haircuts and mustache trims for ad agency Staudinger Franke and their client, the shavers and grooming equipment maker Braun.

(more photos after the jump…)

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Animals, Art, New Viewpoints, Photo Perspectives

This Year’s Best Top 10 Photos of the Week

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Even after moving into the limelight as a highly paid jewelry model,
Earl couldn’t escape the fact that he was still a pig

It’s been a wild year and our Top 10 Photos is a reflection of the craziness of our times.

Unbeknownst to most, the caption writer for this series is world renowned FuturistThomas Frey. This is one of his favorite pastimes. Over the years the Impact Lab’s Top 10 Photo series have bee seen by over 1 million people in every country in the world.

Here are this year’s Top 10 of the Top 10 Photos.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Breakthrough Thinking, Globalism, Green Friendly, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

Computerized air-traffic control could save CO2 equivalent of Denmark’s economy

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Bringing Air-Traffic Control in the 21st Century could really save CO2.

If you are going somewhere in a vehicle that burns a lot of fossil fuels, it’s never a good idea to take unnecessary detours. Sadly, most airplanes can’t take the most elegant and efficient route to their destinations because of the limitations of the air-traffic control system that guides them. It’s not the fault of the traffic controllers – they do a good job – but rather of the technology with which they have to work; the foundations of the system are 50-60 years old and produce flight paths that are far from optimal when it comes to saving fuel (and thus reducing CO2 emissions), saving money, and saving time for passengers. So what can we do about it?

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Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

Exploding holiday tree ornaments

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BANG! Color.

If you’ve had about enough holiday cheer for one year, you can take comfort in the fact that you’re not alone. Photographer Alan Sailer likes to shoot Christmas ornaments with a high-powered pellet gun and photograph them with a high-speed camera as they explode into a million shiny pieces. Bah-humbug, indeed!

(more explosions after the jump…)

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Entertainment, Globalism, New Viewpoints

Glass igloo hotel in Finland

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Cozy cold view.

Located in the wilderness near Finland’s Urho Kekkonen National Park, the Igloo Village of Hotel Kakslauttanen offers a crystal clear view of the Northern lights and stars, all while comfortably relaxing in your room.

Thermal glass walls not only insulate the interior to keep it warm, but also make sure that view stay clear even when the temperature drops to -22 degrees Fahrenheit (-30°C). That’s why it is an excellent place to see the Aurora Borealis, one of the world’s seven natural wonder, or in other words, the burst of colored light caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere. The lights are visible from August to April, however the peak viewing time is during the winter months…

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