Founded in 1916 as a small family grocer, Wegmans has grown into a $4.8 billion company with 75 stores spread across the mid-Atlantic. Wegmans has long worked with local growers to provide fresh, locally grown produce to its shoppers. ...READ»
Atmospheric water generators, or machines that extract water from humid air, have been around for awhile--we wrote about Atmospheric Water Systems' 11-stage filtration water generator last year, and Willie Nelson even sells his own ...READ»
Have you been to Times Square lately? You may have seen this Best Buy billboard. At first glance, it looks like just another billboard made out of funky bric-a-brac, but look a bit closer and you'll notice that it's made out of old ...READ»
You're waking up to an Internet a-Buzz with talk about Google's new social sharing experiment. Opinions are mixed, but mainly concern the current version of Buzz. So here's our thought experiment about its future. It's scary.Google's ...READ»
NASA reported last fall that the inadequately funded U.S.
space-flight program was on an "unsustainable trajectory." Perhaps
commercial space travel will pick up the slack. Many regulatory issues
remain unresolved -- passenger ...READ»
Treehugger points us to this fantastic video from Peter Sinclair that explains the history, challenges, and potential future of plug-in electric cars--all in 10 minutes. If you're a renewable energy or EV buff, the video won't tell ...READ»
Rather than focusing on technology and interface design techniques, this annual interaction design conference was decidedly low-tech, with diverse speakers discussing topics including storytelling, drawing by hand and meaning in the context of design.READ»
Once carbon dioxide emissions are removed from power and industrial plants, where should they go? Some people think they should be stuffed underground, others think they can turn them into plastic, and now a startup called Skyonic ...READ»
There's a surprise buried deep within the statistics Facebook has revealed about its user base's activities on the social network: Sure, more content is being shared than ever before. But the percentage of sharers has shrunk.
The ...READ»
An unusually diverse group of men and women will judge this year's IDEA Awards, as the organization seeks to retool its mission. Not too late to enter: Deadline has been extended to Feb. 15.READ»
The auto industry is fixated on Toyota's recall woes, but Ford snuck in this week with some interesting news of its own: the release of the compressed natural gas-powered Transit Connect. It might just be the NYC taxi cab of the ...READ»
As a whole, the music industry can be pretty hard on the climate. Live shows spew emissions from special effects, fans travel in their cars and even on planes to get to events, CDs get shipped all over the world--you get the idea. ...READ»
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated ...READ»
