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Sony RayModeler aka a 360-Degree Autostereoscopic Display

This has got to be one of the coolest display technologies I have seen in awhile.   As soon as this is higher resolution with interactivity, it will be a killer technology…

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Behold The First Nanobot Assembly Line In Action…

The future, it seems…is now. Nanotechnology has been one of the most promising areas of research for years now, but seemed as though it was years away from anything all that revolutionary. Well, it looks as though there has been some really substantive leaps forward recently, with this being arguably one of the most important… [...]

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Earth 2030: Fascinating video on energy consumption

Animated movie addresses global energy usage trends and actions for positive change. Four-minute video was produced by XPLANE for global BASF Group.

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Data Visualizing…Air?

In an attempt to add some context to something that we all need, but have a hard time wrapping our collective heads around (yeah…air), some geniuses in Madrid have actually visualized all of the things that make up and invade our air.  Check out more information and images at Brain Pickings… In the air – [...]

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A Tour of Microsoft’s European Technology Campus…

Matt Cowan from Reuters gets an interesting tour of Microsoft’s European technology lab in Cambridge.  Some really interesting stuff highlighted here…

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Urban Air Trees? A must see innovation in Spain

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Wetware trumps hardware and software in mobile innovation

I recently presented a short 5 minute talk at an MEIC event at the Design Exchange in Toronto. In short, the main concept of the talk (the short and simple presentation can be viewed here) was on the importance of applying more focus on wetware and less on hardware and software within the mobile innovation space.  NOTE: [...]

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Jules the robot mimics your facial expressions…

Totally creepy and yet somehow cool at the same time.  I am not totally following the logic of using this technology within nursing homes and in childcare, but as with so many innovations, the business model will invent itself at some point.  Thanks Giz!

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Less than 24 hours until…

At 1:30am CDT, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will begin operation.  I think there are at least 3 types of people out there…those that don’t know anything about the LHC; those that know about it and don’t care; and those of us that are intensely interested and curious to see what is learned/discovered from it [...]

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DNA Folding and the Future…

An absolutely riveting talk by Paul Rothemund on DNA folding and what it could lead to in the near future. Awesome stuff!

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