This cube made of gears is a great example of some of the really brilliant stuff coming out of the 3D printing scene; it’s a phenomenon on Thingiverse, where the method for turning any solid shape into a geared wonderment has been generalized into a formula that can be applied to your 3D model-file.
Once again, FedEx has been testing out new delivery systems
“An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.” – – Queen Victoria
Ben Kaufman, founder of Quirky
There are a lot of young kids who want to be inventors. But, when most of the young kids grow up they either grow out of wanting to be an inventor or resign themselves to the excuse that it is the work of only dreamers. When we were younger, we had playful, creative lessons in school on famous inventors like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Walt Disney.
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Mistakes are often looked down on as a bad move or the next step to failure, but mistakes can be good. Mistakes are part of the recipe for success. Ryan Blair started six Multi Million Dollar companies all before the age of 30. He is a world renowned serial entrepreneur admits to his fair share of million dollar mistakes, as well as some billion dollar successes. Ryan Blair sums up pretty nicely in his current bestseller Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain what his Top 10 Million Dollar Mistakes have been on the way to the top.
College-age women end sentences in the lowest vocal register, a creaky vibration called vocal fry.
Vocal fry, a low creaky, vibration has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English. Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style. Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration—once considered a speech disorder—has become a language fad.
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MIT’s video game simulator lets you learn MBA management skills for free.
Thanks to “Platform Wars,” a video game simulator, you can learn MBA management skills and strategies for free. It was created by MIT’s Sloane School of Management and anyone can learn elements of a business school education by portraying an executive at a video game console manufacturer online.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Between 1990 and 2005, immigrants created 25% of all the publicly traded companies in the U.S. These included some of our best-known businesses such as Intel, Sun, eBay, Yahoo, and Google. This same group of foreign nationals went on to become the inventors behind 25% of all patents filed in U.S. in 2006.
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An image of the localization of the identified protein in the molecular pump in the vascalature of a plant leaf.
Food prices are soaring at the same time as Earth’s population is nearing 9 billion. As a result the need for increased crop yields is extremely important. New research led by Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer into the system by which sugars are moved throughout a plant — from the leaves to the harvested portions and elsewhere — could be crucial for addressing this problem…
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When ‘boom’ is an understatement.
I know the latest trend in audio is to put speakers into clothing wherever possible, but this backpack speaker unit, complete with 8-inch woofer, seems like overkill. For one thing, it can’t be good for the ears of whoever wears the thing. Then there’s the fact that no one will want to be anywhere near you when this thing kicks off…
Electric cars have been around longer than most people think.
While a lot of environmentalists don’t like cars, I doubt it’s very realistic to expect all of the to disappear any time soon. Vast quantities of cars can be taken out of circulation because most commuting can be done with mass transit, and walking and bikes offer a healthy and green way to move around for lots of trips. But for some things (especially in rural areas), nothing beats the individual car. If only we could make it a lot cleaner… Which is what going back to the electric roots of the car would allow us to do (even moreso once we’ve cleaned up the electric grid)…
Eyes see you!
Thankfully, the Anomalocaris is extinct, because there’s no hiding from this Cambrian superpredator. Scientists examinning the 515-million-year-old fossil of this unusual animal discovered that it has upwards of 16,000 eyes…
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Nanowick Cooling explained.
Some of the biggest breakthroughs in future tech revolve around some of the smallest materials on Earth. Even calling these technologies “micro” is magnitudes of measure larger than their actual tiny sizes. From the nano-scaled heat transfer of Nanowick Cooling down to the single atomic-level of Graphene and Quantum Computing, these white papers will help you wrap your head around the maximum potential of these miniscule technologies…
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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