Replenish CEO Jason Foster was working in finance when he had an epiphany while using a spray starch to iron his shirt. It was an awfully big bottle, and he wondered why he hadn't seen a large household products company produce a smart concentrate-based system. But then he realized the truth: It isn't good business sense. "Companies make money on a product that's 99% water," he says. "A big company like that can't change." Foster set out on a quest to manufacture both a reusable bottle and a concentrate that could change business and help the planet.
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What does the data center of the future look like? Well, HP Labs built one to find new ways to cool machines while using less power. Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow & Director of HP Labs' Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory, gives us a tour of the lab, which actually was used to render the first two Shrek movies.
As Washington and Wall Street dicker over a financial rescue plan, everyone is missing the real opportunity to fix the problem. Some see the variously proposed plans as bailouts of dumb borrowers and dumber lenders, while others view it as a chance to restore liquidity to the marketplace so we can all have access to credit again, whether it’s for student loans or to finance the acquisition of industrial machinery.
