Innovations in 5: Can your calendar plan your social life?
Here’s a new feature we’re bringing to the blog: “Innovation in 5″ – five interesting reads for the day: 1) “The biggest service we provide people is helping them discover things in new ways,” said...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Of God and Iron Man
Here’s what we’re reading today: 1) “They note that, besides the obvious part about a brand new DNA binding protein, their most important insight is that there are still new things out there to be...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: The Web turns 20
Here’s what we’re reading today: 1) The World Wide Web turns 20: “On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web (“W3″, or simply “the web”) technology available on a royalty-free...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Watch the world’s smallest stop-motion film
Here’s what we’re reading today: 1) IBM research has created what is being called “the world’s smallest movie.” The film, “A Boy and His Atom” features atoms arranged into an animation of a boy...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Google Glass app lets you take a picture with a wink
Here’s what we’re reading today: 1) Now you can take a picture with a wink—that’s if you have Google Glass. A developer has created Winky, an app that allows Glass wearers to take a photo with little...
View ArticleSolar-powered plane takes flight across America Friday (live video)
Here’s what we’re reading and watching Friday: View Photo Gallery — The Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane that can fly at night, is gearing up to be the first airplane of its kind to hopscotch...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Google Glass gets the SNL treatment; 3D printed gun fired...
Here’s what we’re reading and watching today: 1) Saturday Night Live has taken on Google Glass. In a skit during the late-night comedy show’s Weekend Update segment, “tech correspondent Randal Meeks”...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Superpowers, super brains and supercomputers
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) You have superpowers and you didn’t even know it. Well, that’s according to Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, who writes : “Artificial enhancement of the human...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Saul Bass gets a Doodle and the other Charles Ramsey meme
Here’s what we’re reading and watching today: 1) Award-winning film title creator Saul Bass, known best for his collaborations with noted directors Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorcese and Stanley...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: ‘Wait, what now?!’ is the new normal, and the long wait for...
Here’s what we’re reading and watching today: 1) In an analysis piece for the Harvard Business Review, Dunn & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. chief Jeff Stibel outlines why volatility has become, for...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: 3D printers don’t make guns, people do
Here’s what we’re reading/watching on Friday: 1) What does Defense Distributed’s “Liberator” mean for the future of 3D printing? Scientific American’s Larry Greenemeier interviewed Ryan Wicker to find...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Chris Hadfield’s ‘Space Oddity’ and Bill Gates on his final...
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) It’s Monday, so we’re going to start off with something fun. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s latest dispatch from the international space station is...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Skylab turns 40 today
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: View Photo Gallery —Skylab, the nation’s first space station, launched on May 14, 1973. 1) America’s first space station, Skylab, was launched 40 years ago...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ and augmented 3D printing
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) The reviews for “Star Trek into Darkness” are coming in. The Post’s Ann Hornaday writes that the film can be “summed up, quite simply, as a triumph of...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: The United States of Google and NASA gets some new tech
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) Google CEO Larry Page conducted a surprise open question-and-answer session during the Google I/O conference Wednesday. Among other observations (including...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: Watch the brightest explosion ever recorded on the moon
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) It’s Friday, so we’re starting on the lighter side, so to speak. A meteoroid crashed into the moon on March 17, producing a flash roughly 10 times as bright...
View ArticleYahoo, Tumblr and the creativity-failure nexus
Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) Yahoo confirmed the $1.1 billion deal to acquire micro-blogging site Tumblr in a press release on the company’s Web site Monday, promising not to “screw it...
View ArticleSocial media in the wake of the Oklahoma tragedy
Here’s what we’re reading/watching Tuesday: 1) A fierce tornado has torn through Moore, Okla., leaving dozens of people dead, and the death toll is expected to climb. View Photo Gallery —Rescue workers...
View Article‘March for Innovation’ starts, gets Pete Cashmore, Steve Case on board
Here’s what we’re reading/watching Wednesday: 1) More big names in the tech sector and elsewhere announced Wednesday that they are offering their support for the ‘March for Innovation,’ started by New...
View ArticleInnovations in 5: An ailing Everest, unhappy CIOs and Jennifer Lopez’s mobile...
Here’s what we’re reading/watching Thursday: 1) Sometimes great innovation needs a little inspiration. And, as Vivek Wadhwa has written, aging Baby Boomers are in a prime position to usher in some of...
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