1992
There is a very cool film loop from the NOAA showing the progression of the night sky in China from 1992 to 2010. You can watch the full animation here. Above is a photo of 1992 and here is 2010. (Pics)
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“Growing Jewelry”
What would happen to our city gardens if space ever became scarce? Hafsteinn Juliusso, a jewelry designer, has shrunk these gardens and made them wearable. Juliusson’s line of “Growing Jewelry” holds active living plants.
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Recently, Marc Andreessen made some bold statements about the future of the retail business:
“Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible economic structure if there’s a viable alternative,” he says. “You combine the fixed cost of real estate with inventory, and it puts every retailer in a highly leveraged position. Few can survive a decline of 20 to 30 percent in revenues. It just doesn’t make any sense for all this stuff to sit on shelves. There is fundamentally a better model.”
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Livestock consumption of antibiotics reached a record nearly 29.9 billion pounds in 2011.
The Food and Drug Administration, last year, proposed a set of voluntary “guidelines”designed to nudge the meat industry to curb its antibiotics habit. Since then, the agency has been mulling whether and how to implement the new program. Meanwhile, the meat industry has been merrily gorging away on antibiotics—and churning out meat rife with antibiotic-resistant pathogens—if the latest data from the FDA itself is any indication.
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There may be some truth to the assumption that on average animals get one billion heartbeats out of their bodies before they die based on the relationship between metabolic rates, volume, and surface area.
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There are nine surprising reasons an app might get rejected from the Apple app store.
To keep the app ecosystem healthy, the Apple App Store review process is designed to protect users from low quality or hostile apps. It works for the most part. Sometimes an app rejection might not be for the reason you might expect. Sometimes it can force developers to rush to push back their launch date or maybe even redevelop key features.
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“We went a level deeper in our research by examining how today’s hot technology create platforms for future disruption,” analyst Bryan Hopkins writes.
Forrester, a research firm, understands that everyone who’s been listening knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices.
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Virtual fencing promises radical transformation by removing the mile upon mile of barbed wire stretched across the landscape.
European farmers claimed North America with fences when they first arrived. Fences were the physical manifestation of a belief in private ownership and the proper use of land — enclosed, utilized, defended — that continues to shape the American way of life, its economic aspirations, and even its form of government. (Videos)
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Homeless and addicted to Google Goggles in the year 2029
Quote of the Day: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – – Oscar Wilde
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Many people have had the misfortune of receiving a package that has been roughhoused in transit. A lot of times we don’t even realized it until we opened the package. Cambridge Consultants’ DropTag might just serve as the insurance we need.
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EyeSight Technologies
Touching and swiping are commonplace ways to interact with TVs, computers, and mobile devices thanks to smartphones, tablets, and Windows 8. But what if you want to do the same without touching the screen at all? (Videos)
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Wall Street
Years ago Dell computers used to be pretty cool. But the company that was started by the youngest CEO to every sit atop the Fortune 500, Michael Dell, is as outdated and out of place in today’s world as the old CRT monitor in the back of my parents’ garage.
Continue reading… “Why Wall Street strangles innovation at tech companies”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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