Personal Energy Systems: Get Yours in 2012 Personalized power systems are comin' your way.A newly discovered catalyst can jump-start the separation of oxygen from water to power fuel cells for the home, a professor from MIT told peers at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Posted Tue Aug 24, 2010
Rise-N-Shine to Anderson Cooper: Lose the Gray and We'll Pay! Paying celebrities to pimp your product is nothing new. From Gillette courting ZZ Top front men to shave (they declined), to Weight Watchers convincing Sarah Ferguson to endorse their slim-down system (she did), marketing gurus have long used star power to shine some light on their own products.The newest target: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and his gray hair.
Posted Fri Aug 20, 2010
Hydroponics and Food Goo to Rule Kitchens of 2040 Ikea fans dream up a concept kitchen with technology from Hyundai and MIT. But haven't we seen this all before -- in the 1950s?
Posted Wed Aug 18, 2010
First Space Twins, Last Shuttle Mission: Search For Dark Matter, Antimatter, Beginnings of the Universe Two New Jersey Brothers are scheduled to orbit Earth simultaneously (and tweet about it) this winter.
Posted Wed Aug 18, 2010
World's Largest Tidal Turbine Spinning up This Summer The world's largest turbine -- a 130-ton, metal shaft with twin rotating blades -- is making its way on a barge from Invergordon, Scotland to the European Marine Energy Centre test site off the coast of Orkney. Installers will then battle 50-foot waves and an average temperature of 11 degrees to install the turbine and connect it to the electrical grid.
Posted Tue Aug 17, 2010
Net Neutrality Supporters Protest at Google HQ Protestors (peacefully) storm the Googleplex and demand net neutrality.
Posted Mon Aug 16, 2010
PayPal Responds to Burning Man Flame War When PayPal Director of Communications Anuj Nayar logged onto his computer Wednesday and checked his Facebook page, he didn't like what he saw.
Posted Sat Aug 14, 2010
Why Won't Steve Spend? Apple's ability to innovate is undisputed, but some analysts complain it doesn't know (or care) about investing its $46 billion in cash.
Posted Fri Aug 13, 2010
Burning Man Defeats PayPal Burning Man veterans -- including top VCs, entrepreneurs and the founders of Google -- have an extra reason to celebrate today. Not only is it less than a month until they go to the Nevada desert again, but the Burner community just got a Silicon Valley giant to back down.
Posted Thu Aug 12, 2010
The 8 Percenters: Women Raising More Venture Cash Now Than During the Bubble Female company founders snagged 8% of venture capital in the U.S. during the first half of 2010.
Posted Wed Aug 11, 2010
Astronauts Enter Round Two of Ammonia Wrestling in Space Astronauts Will Try Again Wednesday to Fix Cooling System on $100 Billion International Space Station.
Posted Tue Aug 10, 2010
Glam: the Next Media Giant? Glam Media CEO and Founder Samir Arora talks about cutting his own salary, building an ad network to rival Google, and why women rule.
Posted Fri Aug 6, 2010
Five-Pointed Laser Telescope Gives Astronomers Clear Shot to Heaven Lasers cancel atmospheric turbulence and give scientists clearest view of large starry clusters to date.
Posted Thu Aug 5, 2010
GE and Intel to the Old and Infirm: Stay Home! GE and Intel want to keep sick people at home and out of the hospital.
Posted Tue Aug 3, 2010
How Twitter CEO Ev Williams Can Keep His Job
Twitter, the darling of social networks, finally announced plans this month to make money on its 130 million (and growing) users. With the vision mapped, it's now about execution. That humdrum blocking and tackling required to grow a small enterprise to big boy proportions.
It's about creating processes. It's about building infrastructure. It's about hitting milestones. And it's not what CEO and co-founder Evan Williams is used to.
Posted Thu Jul 15, 2010
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