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Not all inventions need to involve new discoveries. Two new projects--one which draws power from the air, one which uses heat from servers--show that we can hack our way out of wasteful systems. Fresh research from a couple of different quarters suggests that waste isn't really waste, and that innovators don't need to discover new materials or unknown principles in order to innovate.

The future of U.S. medical-device design may reside in developing countries. In India, where a chaotic road system spawns many accidents and hospitals are often hours away, the need for an inexpensive alternative vascular access is great.

How would you feel if parts of your home, your car, or the airliner you were flying in had blood flowing in artificial veins and arteries? Nicely chilled is the answer

Instead of cashing in on what could be a $1.2 trillion industry, our patchwork collection of local, city, and state governments fight over who should pay to update our infrastructure. This needs to stop. The hottest wave in technology today is not about the individual consumer, but the “smart city.”

The web is more dangerous than ever. LulzSec, Anonymous, Julian Assange, News Corp. employees--they all make our grandparents wonder if their computers are indeed infected , and require iron-clad protection from McAfee or Symanetc, lest their Windows 98-running Gateway desktops explode.

Look! Another RGM. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic? In support of its new Android tablets, Sony just launched a series of web films based on a Rube Goldberg Machine

Look! Another RGM. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic

No company owner ever wants to conduct a layoff.

You've grown to 140 million tweets per day and impacted global politics.

How far will the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office go?

Surgeons have transplanted an entirely engineered artificial trachea made from his own cells to save the life of a cancer patient. It's the future of organ donation, but it's here right now.

Rob Mason was, until recently, a lowly designer of third-party Facebook apps. Now he's at Facebook, where he's designed the most exciting new feature in recent history. He gives us the scoop on how he made it do just one thing--well

The rock celebrity launches a new retailing business, called AbbeyDawn.com. Like many celebrities hoping to break into fashion, Avril Lavigne partnered with a big national retailer when she launched her Abbey Dawn clothing line in 2008. Just two years later, though, the business-savvy pop star and Kohl's ended their relationship, and Lavigne set out to build a global apparel company

If a brand can describe its core values and philosophy on its business card without a detailed description, the brand becomes a full representation of its vision. I heard a story that a few years ago Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea , happened to drive past one of his stores.

Richard Kerris, the former Apple exec, is gliding through his presentation of HP's TouchPad. As the current VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS, the slick software giving life to HP's latest mobile devices, Kerris is giddily running through the tablet's bells and whistles: the design, the partnerships, the apps, the engineering. But suddenly our discussion is interrupted by the sound of woodwinds, dancing up the scale