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There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side.

There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side.

Every year, an organization called Improbable Research offers up the Ig Nobel Prize , a Nobel spoof award that it is given for science innovations "that first make people laugh, then make them think." This year, our favorite entry came from researchers at the Shiga University of Medical Science, who developed something called the wasabi alarm, a fire (or general emergency alarm) that slashes noise pollution but might make anyone nearby feel sick.

People have been hacking the Kinect since the day it went live. Microsoft intially balked at the idea, then relented, and now it's even releasing its own software development kit (SDK) to make it easy for coders to do that legitimately

The Nintendo generation wants to bond with their children on their old digital stomping grounds. "On the menu of things to do with your kid, it's not the best choice," says MIT Professor and Alone Together author Sherry Turkle. Playing catch in the backyard with Dad is so 20th century.

The Nintendo Wii U, the latest console from Japanese gaming company Nintendo, was announced in a press event in Los Angeles today. Though a follow-up to their popular and bestselling Wii, the Wii U shows a new strategy for the company: beating PS3 and Xbox 360 at providing the most cutting edge HD graphics--a demo of a bird flying through a landscape provided realism beyond current gaming tech. It will launch Holiday season 2012.

01 / Zynga > > For dominating--and monetizing--the social-gaming industry. The largest social-games developer in the world touts hundreds of millions of monthly active users on FarmVille, Treasure Isle, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, and more