Come 2Q09 and you’ll find thousands of new top-level domain names (TLDs), from .paris to .pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history.
Category: Innovation
Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the “smartcards” commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw because similar cards provide access to thousands of government offices, hospitals and schools.
The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another. According to the creators — this building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime; and would be energy self-sufficient and even feed extra power back into the grid!
Knee brace on leg can produce enough power to run 10 mobiles!
Cancer patient’s tumours vanished within two months after being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells.
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GINA: Flexible thinking by BMW
GINA is a concept car by BMW where the car is made out of flexible material and can change shape according to the requirements. Fascinating and creative design.
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The Business Innovation Factory Conference website maintains an archive of video recordings of presentations given by industry leaders during past years of the conference on their business practices and ways in which you could excel in running your own business.
Business Innovation Factory (BIF) (in their own words):
“An independent, non-profit organization launched in 2005, the Business Innovation Factory was founded to enable collaborative innovation. The BIF idea is simple: create a platform where public and private sector partners can collaborate across boundaries to focus on big win projects and deliver transformative innovations.”
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Adobe Buzzword
Adobe joins the online ‘Office productivity tools’ race with the launch of Buzzword! Other notable ones include Google Docs and Zoho. All these new offerings at attacking well at the tail end of Microsoft Office sales, and more so, since most people only make use of the most basic functions in these tools, most of the times. And there is OpenOffice for desktop users as well.
Wave dragon “is a pioneering large scale ocean energy solution for bulk electricity generation.” “The Wave Dragon overtopping device elevates ocean waves to a reservoir above sea level where water is let out through a number of turbines and in this way transformed into electricity.”
Watch the promotional video below.
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