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In-home monitors detect behavioral patterns and predict medical emergencies. Simple hardware combined with behavioral mathematics is helping seniors live free of nursing homes. Intel and General Electric's joint healthcare product, QuietCare , uses infrared sensors, like those used for motion-sensing light switches, to monitor patients as they move throughout their home and alert medical staff to deviant behavior that suggests a medical threat.

More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest's massive 30-million-song dataset. You music lovers out there probably think we're living in a Golden Age.

Illustrations by Shingo Shimizu Breakthroughs in materials science mean greener, cleaner, and safer spaces. We take a closer peek at three that amaze. .h2{ color:rgb(0,113,146) !important; clear:both !important; } .p{ font-size:11.5px !important; clear:both !important; } #float_box { width:580px; margin:10px auto; } #bird_windows { width:250px; margin-right:20px; float:left; } #bird_windows img { margin-bottom:10px; } #liquid_glass { width:300px; float:right; } #liquid_glass img { margin-bottom:10px; } Heat-Releasing Walls To keep a room cool, just let the walls melt

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You've heard about the lovely and amazing , now let's hear about the duds of TED. “Only 5% of TED Talks have been given by CEOs,” Pepsi chief Indra Nooyi observed from the stage at TED, before going on to demonstrate why. Her bland recitation of the accomplishments of Pepsi Refresh , a decent, though hardly groundbreaking corporate social responsibility program, had some attendees wondering if it was a paid product placement.

SeeYourImpact.org rewards acts of micro-charity with photographs and stories of the impact donors make.

This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies . We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.

The U.S.-Russian space race that led to the Apollo lunar landings is the stuff of legend. But now a new race is emerging, as China gears up with the world's biggest rocket-production factory.

Avatars, they're just like us! Or should be for maximum effectiveness, according to recent studies. Right or wrong, race, gender, and attractiveness matter in virtual incarnations.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

The Arabic-speaking world's largest art show brings 119 artists to Sharjah, a historic port city in the United Arab Emirates, with made-for-grad-seminar themes such as "seduction" and "dissidence." Most participants, like Decolonizing Architecture, a West Bank -- based group that reimagines the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation, come from the Middle East, but there are also many Western artists, including Sophie Calle.

How's this for instant gratification?

How's this for instant gratification? "If you're shopping for a car and spout out a feature you'd like, the factory should immediately start creating it," says Michael Gruninger, who heads the semantics technologies lab at the University of Toronto

What would you do if you could predict the future? This is not a rhetorical question.

Wind farms suffer from a problem: They're built to harness wind, but are still vulnerable to wear-and-tear caused by severely windy conditions. Enter the Record Hill Wind project, a Yale University Endowment-funded 50.6 megawatt wind power plant set to start construction this year in rural Maine