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The view from INSIDE a fireworks show
Awesome video from a small drone that was apparently unharmed by the experience.
Engineers use LEGOs for cheaper, flexible plant research
As reported by Mike Krapfl-Iowa State at Futurity.org, scientists have been constructing high-tech apparatus for conducting plant research using LEGO bricks: Ludovico Cademartiri, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University, was looking for something modular, scalable, and structurally precise. … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Science, Innovation, Uncategorized
Tagged innovation, LEGO, plant research
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Clayton Christensen Demolishes Jill Lepore’s Critique of Disruptive Innovation
Last week, the New Yorker published Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s sharply worded critique of both Clayton Christensen and his theory of disruptive innovation. Some journalists piled on, further deriding “disruption zealots” and their leader, while others jumped to Christensen’s defense. Meanwhile, Drake Bennet at Business Week … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management
Tagged Clayton Christensen, Disruptive innovation, Jill Lepore
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NASA Makes Progress on World’s Largest Rocket
Yahoo News has a short video on the progress NASA is making developing the Space Launch System (SLS), which would be the world’s largest rocket when operational. Unfortunately, what NASA has produced to date is mostly scale models and animated movies, with the … Continue reading
Los Angeles County is Moving All Employees to the Cloud
All 100,000 LA County employees, including 20,000 police are moving to Office 365 for their business work environment. Besides the savings from consolidating various department installations into one contract, cutting maintenance costs, and only paying for active employees, security was … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Innovation
Tagged Cloud Computing, Los Angeles County, Microsoft, Office 365
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Paper Airplanes Transform Into Tiny Drones
From the WSJ: Fold a sheet of paper a few times, clip on a tiny propeller and rudder, launch an iPhone app, and you have a mini drone.
The Future of Work Looks Like a UPS Truck
UPS used to be a trucking company. Now it’s a technology company; every truck a rolling computer with artificial intelligence tracking wherever the vehicle and its packages go, trying to make deliveries quicker and more efficient. At the center of the entire web … Continue reading
Vinod Khosla says replacing doctors with data crunchers is good medicine
Valley Beat author Mark Sullivan has a short article on some remarks by Vinod Khosla at Stanford University School of Medicine’s Big Data in Biomedicine Conference: Khosla has for a long time believed that machines armed with mountains of data will (and should) make … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Innovation
Tagged big data, healthcare, mechanized intelligence, Vinod Khosla
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Software is still eating the world
Russ Roberts has a new EconTalk podcast interview with Marc Andreessen that is worth a listen: Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-creator of the early web browser Mosaic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how success in venture capital is more about … Continue reading
Posted in Data Analysis, Innovation
Tagged Disruptive innovation, Marc Andreessen, Russ Roberts, Software
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Apple and Google poised to enter the 3D printing market?
Speculation has been building that Apple and Google might be gearing up to produce consumer 3D printers (along with other tech giants). Indeed, analysts have been urging Apple to do so. Apple, of course, was primarily responsible for the desktop publishing phenomena, … Continue reading
Posted in 3-D Printing, Innovation
Tagged 3D printing, Apple, Cube, Google, MakerBot
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