This Philips LED bulb is the winner of the DOE's $10 million competition to develop a low-cost, energy efficient, high-performance replacement for the incandescent bulb.
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Problem solving is a skill that start-ups need to learn quickly.
Read More »How Jumio’s Webcam Credit-Card Swiper Will Increase E-Commerce Sales
Making purchases online is a headache: filling out your billing address, your credit card number, your zip code, and other personal details. How often have you sat squinting at your desk, slowly bobbing your head from card to computer as you henpeck away at the keyboard with one hand? But a new service launched today can make paying for goods digitally just as painless and simple as swiping your card at the grocery store.
Read More »Nobelist Smithies Shares Thesis on Theses
Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2007. On June 27th, he spoke to students [at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting] about what he learned from his thesis research, which involved developing a new method to measure the osmotic pressures of mixes of proteins: "Here's my osmotic pressure measurement. And I was rather proud of this method
Read More »What Makes a Business Magnetic?
A graduate from Harvard’s Law and Business schools, Adrian Slywotzky is a sought after business consultant, speaker, and writer. Below, Adrian describes the qualities that make a business magnetic. Curt: What does magnetism mean in the B2B world
Read More »Innovation Agents: Britta Gross, Director of GM’s Global Energy Systems and Infrastructure Commercialization
By the end of this year, there should be 15,000 Chevy Volts and Opel Amperas on the road, and hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't far behind.
Read More »Fear Is Good
Product designer Amir Khella ( amirkhella.com ) writes that when he couldn't quite pull the trigger on his start-up, he tried scaring himself into action. It worked.
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