Strange but effective
I will let this story speak for itself. I don’t think I need a disclaimer, but I will add one anyway: This story is about how bodily functions can actually be useful, if everyone cooperates.
I will let this story speak for itself. I don’t think I need a disclaimer, but I will add one anyway: This story is about how bodily functions can actually be useful, if everyone cooperates.
Imagine being able to copy the exact shade of whatever color you want to draw with from any object – even pets! This gadget is a few hundred dollars and it’s called the Scribblepen. It was originally designed for tablets,allowing you to easily transfer your custom and captured colors into Photoshop or CorelDRAW, for use…
Leather is great, but it’s a resource–intensive product that many would rather avoid, for environmental and animal safety reasons. Here’s the story of how one company – MycoWorks – found a solution in nature. The company created a leather-like product grown rapidly from mycelium and agricultural byproducts in a carbon-negative process. In other words: Mushrooms!…
Online shopping is expected to reach half a Trillion dollars this decade. Everyone thought brick and mortar stores would be replaced by online shopping, and yet real retail shops bring in 10 times what online stores do. Here’s an interesting profile of two entrepreneurs who started thier venture from a New York apartment, hoping to…
If you’re a NASA fan, you probably already know what the topography of Mars looks like, thanks to fun tools like Google Mars. Before August of 2012’s historic Mars landing, I played around with it a bit. But nothing compares with the real thing: Panoramic photos of the red planet –the most beautiful photos of…
London may be getting a boost in innovation with an exciting new innovation training program, the “MICL” (pronounced like “Michael”), short for Masters in Innovation, Creativity, and Leadership, a masters degree program offered at City University London. See http://creativity.city.ac.uk/ for details. The program involves the arts, business, law, social science, and informatics. Looks like a…
Chinese company WinSun Decoration Design Engineering can build 10 houses in one day by using 3D-printed blocks. The builders are constructing cheap and quickly assembled homes as a possible solution to the urgent problem of modernizing housing conditions in Chinese villages. The blocks are made from common construction waste: a mixture of sand, glass fiber and concrete….