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Charge your iPhone with your body!
Nanogenerator chip utilizes body movements to produce elecrticity A research team recently unveiled a nanogenerator at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. It is a supple chip that utilizes body movements [...]
New deal to fix iPad 2 shipping delays
According to a report from Taiwan Economic News, Apple is trying to fix stock shortages of its recently released tablet, the iPad 2, with the Cupertino based company apparently tapping AU Optronics Corp (AUO) as a [...]
Video ad startup raises $30 million
TidalTV, founded by Scott Ferber, who co-founded Advertising.com in 1998, announced that it raised $30 million in new financing from investors — an amount that nearly doubles the $16 million the company raised in 2009. The [...]
Israeli startup negotiating billion-dollar exit
Israeli startup Conduit is on the verge of a huge exit: It is negotiating a sale estimated at over a billion dollars. Among the potential buyers mentioned are such giants as Microsoft and Google. Conduit, considered [...]
2 billion Euros for Green Innovation
Philips will invest 2 billion Euros to enhance sustainability Philips Electronics announced that it will allocate EUR 2 billion for investments in Green Innovation by 2015 to accelerate sustainable business across the company’s three sectors. In [...]
A time machine that works!
GigaPan Time Machine brings time-lapse to panoramas From the presidential inauguration to the World Series to gorgeous cityscapes, for the past few years the GigaPan team at Carnegie Mellon University has been making it possible to [...]
Should I become an Entrepreneur?
When to become an entrepreneur is a common quandary for many. For whatever reason, this issue has come up a great deal recently (recession-driven workforce dislocation?), so I thought I’d share a few thoughts that might [...]
Here is what not to do!
3 Behaviors that fail when looking for a partnership or job I’m asked all the time to play matchmaker between folks and companies that we’ve invested in. Sometimes it’s someone looking for a job, sometimes it’s [...]
1000 True fans
Anyone producing works of art needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living. The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and [...]
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