January 2009
16 posts
The Mimic Wall →
Interactive wall technology can be used to attract people’s attention. By combining this technology with and ad and letting people interact with it, it connects more with people and certainly gets…
December 2008
20 posts
“The web is a world of constraints, the materials of HTML and CSS flex and give...”
– Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS - (37signals)
Seadragon Demo →
Seadragon is technology coming out of Microsoft’s Live Labs. They are creating ways to naturally interact with massive amounts of image data and multiple levels of image quality seamlessly….
Approved! →
As a supervisor at a Washington Mutual mortgage processing center, John D. Parsons was accustomed to seeing baby sitters claiming salaries worthy of college presidents, and schoolteachers with incomes rivaling stockbrokers’. He rarely questioned them. A real estate frenzy was under way and WaMu, as his bank was known, was all about saying yes. Yet even by WaMu’s relaxed standards, one mortgage...
The 10 Biggest Cleantech Disappointments of 2008 -... →
1) Tesla Hits A Wall: The embodiment of the future of electric vehicles discovered how expensive it is to make them. In 2008 the startup started to run low on cash — reportedly at one point as little as $9 million — and was forced to do layoffs and delay the production of its second-generation vehicle, the Model S. Now the company is relying on a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, which...
Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America -... →
That’s why we don’t just need a bailout. We need a reboot. We need a build out. We need a buildup. We need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history. Because of the financial crisis, Barack Obama has the bipartisan support to spend $1 trillion in stimulus. But we must make certain that every bailout dollar, which we’re borrowing from our...
What separates extraordinary and average people? →
Malcolm Gladwell has come out with some interesting concepts. And, he has a new book out called Outliers. The new book poses the question: “why do some people succeed, while so many…
Recession and Innovation →
“There are two main differences in social innovation during difficult financial times,” Katz said. “First, the need for true social innovation is never more acute than when things are not humming along in the global economy. Second, there is increased oversight on social innovators to be ruthlessly efficient and profit-driven.”
Personal Pod Public Transport →
Here is an interesting concept for public transportation.
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Vertical Farming →
Here is a Discovery video on “vertical farming” a concept for farming food and raising livestock in skyscrapers.
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Adjustable Glasses to Help Poor →
Glasses have been invented that can be adjusted to any prescription. The lenses are filled with a liquid that can be adjusted, allowing the prescription to be adjusted as needed. These glasses…
Vertical Farming →
Here is a Discovery video on “vertical farming” a concept for farming food and raising livestock in skyscrapers.
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Adjustable Glasses to Help poor →
Glasses have been invented that can be adjusted to any prescription. The lenses are filled with a liquid that can be adjusted, allowing the prescription to be adjusted as needed. These glasses…
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Justice may be hard-wired into the human brain -... →
The Dream Machine →
This is a pretty impressive advancement in mind-computer interfaces. Their technology can actually read and interpret the visual cortex, reconstructing what you are seeing. This would apply to…
