Only 43% of Americans use their smartphone for making calls.
What do most consumers do with their smartphones? Believe it or not, it’s not making phone calls. When using their mobile devices making calls ranks close to the bottom of the top five smart phone uses.
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“Perfected television and radio telephone combined!”
Seagram’s advertised its VO Canadian whiskey back in the mid-1940’s with a series of extremely manly magazine ads about “Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow”. They were unspecified futuristic thinkers who liked the fact that Seagram’s was patient enough to age VO for six years. Each of the ads depicted a different miracle that would transform postwar America and they were glorious. (Pics)
INgSOC advanced hybrid bike
The INgSOC, by designers Edward Kim and Benny Cemoli, is an electric bicycle concept is out of this world! It combines the aerodynamic shapes of triathlon designs, flexible handling of traditional bikes, and advanced hybrid power technology into one super-efficient commuting machine that (to say the least) looks, well… unearthly! (Pics)
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Hydrothermal worm
This is a real creature. It’s not from J.J. Abrams’ next monster movie, this guy is 100% real. But it’s so small that it’s pretty much invisible to the naked eye.
Students can now rent e-textbooks for periods from 30 to 360 days.
E-book textbook rentals have just been introduced by Amazon just in time for the fall semester. This will allow students to save up to 80 percent on some titles. E-textbook rentals can be viewed not just on Amazon’s e-reader (and rumored Amazon tablet) but also on any device that can download the Kindle app including PCs, iOS devices, and Android phones and tablets. The rental option isn’t available for general interest e-books, just e-book versions of textbooks.
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The picture on the shows the original phonograph removed from the doll’s body.
Using advanced imaging technology, scientists have recovered a 123-year-old recording made by Thomas Edison. The recording is believed to be the world’s first attempt at a talking doll and may mark the dawn of the American recording industry.
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Edible antifreeze can prevent ice crystals from forming in ice cream.
It’s Friday night, and the movie’s already playing in the DVD player. You run the freezer to grab a gallon of ice cream, but you find the tub nearly empty.
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Graphene sheets
Graphite and water, a combination of two ordinary materials, could produce energy storage systems that perform on par with lithium ion batteries, but recharge in a matter of seconds and have an almost indefinite lifespan.
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Thomas Frey, futurist and executive director at the DaVinci Institute.
Thomas Frey, a futurist and executive director at the DaVinci Institute, has been drawing inspiration from the success of large-scale incentive-based prize competitions as he announced a series of eight massively difficult competitions during his keynote July 10th at the World Future Society’s “WorldFuture 2011″ event in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Employers are looking for people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.
The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand. I am sure there is truth in both, but I do not believe they are the whole story. I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.
Continue reading… “‘The start-up of you’ – Reinventing yourself in the ever changing job market”
Thirty four percent of iPhone owners think they already have 4G phones, according to a survey which shows that naming, as well as timing, can be everything.
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