Eye-trackers, devices that use small cameras to measure the motion of eyes, are often used to assist the disabled in digitally highlighting and spelling text. The technology is extremely expensive, with costs ranging anywhere from ...READ»
The pitch: An oil company lobbyist (Leonardo DiCaprio) is shaken after his girlfriend, a local meteorologist, breaks up with him over reservations of his contribution to global warming. The split is hastened by a massive hurricane ...READ»
"There are sub-cultures within the culture," said Kimberly Davis at Fast Company's recent Most Creative People in Business event. "[That's] where you can actually have pockets of innovation."
Davis, president of the JP Morgan Chase ...READ»
How many times have you heard a horror story of how debaucherous Facebook photos have ended the chances of a job candidate?
Most of us have numerous online personalities, from multiple email usernames and messenger logins, to ...READ»
Who is more powerful: 400-million-user strong Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, or the leader of the free world?
That was the question posed to Soraya Darabi, #53 on our Most Creative People in Business list, who explained ...READ»
Asked at Fast Company's Most Creative People event last week about how she asks others to take risks, (RED) CEO Susan Smith Ellis offered a one-word answer.
"Nerve," said Ellis, who was featured as #25 on our Most Creative ...READ»
Marcel Melanson didn't have it easy growing up in Inglewood, California. His father was in and out of his life, his mom struggled with drug abuse, and his brother died at an early age. "I wanted a sense of belonging, a sense of ...READ»
One occupational hazard of being an expert on contemporary art is being unable to enjoy a gallery without mentally pricing the room. "When I'm in a museum," says Amy Cappellazzo, "I have to shut off that part of my brain and make sure ...READ»
Scott Belsky doesn't exactly advertise that he's the grandson of test-prep king Stanley Kaplan, but he has a lot in common with the man who launched a $4 billion industry by tutoring immigrants for the SAT. "He always used this term ...READ»
"There are South Bronxes all over the country," says Majora Carter, 43, seated in her down-to-earth South Bronx offices, adjacent to the highway and above an auto-glass repair shop. She rattles off a few: New Orleans, northeastern ...READ»
She's earned a reputation among the digerati as someone who has intuitively understood where all this social-media stuff is going--and left The New York Times to help create a platform to share rich media with the cloud.READ»
He has created award-winning ads and directed feature films, but lately he has been making short films for the likes of the Clinton Global Initiative, TED, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.READ»
Davis connects corporate philanthropy efforts with a young generation more passionate about grassroots activism than with wearing awareness ribbons from faceless foundations.READ»
In 1994, NASA tapped professor KR Sridhar to create a device that turned water into oxygen for Mars. Afterward, Sridhar was left wondering: If we reverse the basic process, could we put oxygen in and get electricity out, right here on ...READ»
Rather than rest on his laurels since winning the Pritzker Prize, his profession's top honor, in 2008, French architect Jean Nouvel, 64, has attained new heights with his dramatic designs. Two in-process creations, both set to open in ...READ»
Rob Carter, 51, bombed out of premed before deciding to indulge his fascination with computers. His latest innovation combines his tech expertise with his early interest in health care: FedEx's SenseAware technology, launching in ...READ»
"The good relationships and alliances you create define your mutual ability to be effective," says Reid Hoffman, which is a fancy way of saying that friends really matter. Hoffman, 42, is a powerful friend to have. In the early ...READ»
Facebook long relied on a programming language called PHP that's simple to learn and use, but devours computing time and energy. Haiping Zhao, 40, labored for two years -- at first alone, then in a team of three -- to build HipHop, ...READ»
She has spent her career chronicling real life, but Sheila Nevins's work is the antithesis of stereotypical reality TV. "I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys," she says. "I'm not ...READ»
