disruptive innovation

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• Artificial Security Guard

  
  SensoryMetrics — Authority: 121
  The first commercial application using Numenta’s HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory) technology is now beta (and available to tryout for free).  What does it do?  It watches your video camera and lets you know if certain things occur.  For instance, the artificial intelligence engine is smart enough to tell the ...
  7 hours ago

• Producing carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Carbon nanotubes promise to revolutionize everything from medicine to electronics and power generation . Unfortunately nanotubes are notoriously hard to work with and chemists worldwide have struggled for years to even make them. Now researchers have unveiled a method for the ...
  15 hours ago

• Blue Energy Seems Feasible And Offers Considerable Benefits

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Generating energy on a large scale by mixing salt and fresh water is both technically possible and practical. The worldwide potential for this clean form of energy — ‘blue energy’ or ‘blue electricity’ — is enormous. However, it will be necessary to work actively on several ...
  1 day ago

• New solar storage solution could be the key to home-brewed electricity

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Reports of new developments in the area of solar power are an almost daily event here at Gizmag. The main focus of research seems to be on improving the efficiency of solar cells , but others are working at developing an inexpensive method of locally storing the energy generated by solar ...
  1 day ago

• Bling Nation Raises $20 Million For Cell Phone Payment System

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image by judy_breck via Flickr What recession? Startup Bling Nation just raised $20 million in Series B funding from Balderton Capital for a new cell phone payment system. This brings the startup’s total funding to $33 million since its launch in 2007. Bling Nation’s ambitions are to establish a ...
  1 week ago

• Cheaper Desalination

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  A fresh way to take the salt out of seawater THERE is a lot of water on Earth, but more than 97% of it is salty and over half of the remainder is frozen at the poles or in glaciers. Meanwhile, around a fifth of the world’s population suffers from a shortage of drinking water and that fraction is expected to grow. ...
  1 week ago

• How a Successful Digital Business is Really Built

  
  Digital Tonto — Authority: 118
  The digital world is fraught with myth.  A common fable is of a visionary idea executed flawlessly and pursued with certainty by those with superhuman powers of insight.  How things really work is considerably different. It is usually a tale of confusion, doubt and more than a little trial and error. This ...
  1 week ago

• How High Will Real-Time Search Fly?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image by michperu via Flickr WHEN a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on Twitter . In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported his death. And, this month, as much of the nation was riveted by images of a balloon ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sending Science Down The Phone: New Technology Will Map Research Across The World

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia New mobile phone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world, without having to return to the lab, according to research published in PLoS ONE . The authors of the study, from Imperial College ...
  2 weeks ago

• A novel form of fusion power

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia An alternative approach to achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory LIKE conquistadors seeking El Dorado, physicists cannot leave the idea of fusion power alone. Some spend billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on the huge machines they believe are the best way to generate the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The New Untouchables

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee , the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about — our struggling public ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Writing Revolution

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship will shape tomorrow’s. Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before 1455, books were handwritten, and it took a scribe a year to produce a Bible. Today, it takes only a minute ...
  2 weeks ago

• BYD’s Incredibly Sensible House of the Future

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  SHENZHEN, CHINA– One of my very early posts for TechCrunch referenced the “futurism” of 1950s Americana, where companies like Monsanto and Disney played out dreamy visions of a new automated way of living that never quite came true. I’m writing this post from Shenzhen, in Southern China—a place whose ...
  3 weeks ago

• TV Stations Start Broadcasting to Mobile Gadgets

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia As if you are not barraged with video choices from your cable system, YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, NetFlix, and Ye’ Olde Video Store in the neighborhood, here comes yet another way to veg out: programs beamed over the air from your local TV station right to your cellphone. A group called the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Eat for the ecosystem

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia A heartening tale of business and the environment RED lionfish are pretty, but they are also greedy. A single one of them, introduced into a coral reef where the species is not native, can reduce the number of other small fish by 80% in just a few weeks, according to Mark Hixon, a marine ...
  3 weeks ago

• Future Of News? Newsroom As A Cafe

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Jeff Sonderman points us to the fascinating story of a newspaper in the Czech Republic that is experimenting with making newsrooms into cafes . One of my big complaints about newspapers these days is how little they’ve done to help enable their community to participate in the news ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Search Of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Are Native Prairie Plants the Answer?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia When society jumps on a bandwagon, even for a good cause, there may be unintended consequences. The unintended consequence of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the birds who call this country’s grasslands home, say researchers from Michigan ...
  4 weeks ago

• Coming Soon to a Theater Near You, If You Demand It

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia If you have not yet heard of the horror movie “ Paranormal Activity ,” you will soon. It is about to become the first major studio film to be released nationwide as the result of online requests from the public. The film is about a young couple that becomes convinced that a demonic ...
  4 weeks ago

• Evening Standard to be free paper

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife The London Evening Standard is to become a free newspaper. About 600,000 copies of the paper – which currently costs 50p – will be given out in London from 12 October. Current circulation is about 250,000. The move follows Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev ...
  5 weeks ago

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