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Innovation
2011 Chevrolet Volt–$41,000.00
Jul 27th
General Motors today announced the official base price for it’s 2011 Chevy Volt
Before the $7,500 federal tax credit, the price is $41,000. After the tax credit: $33,500. The Volt at $41,000 costs $8,220 more than the 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car. The Leaf is also eligible for the federal income tax credit, which would bring the price down to $25,280.
The four-passenger, five-door uses a 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery that’s good for about 40 miles, then a gas engine kicks on to drive the 53-kilowatt generator More >
What Is The Future of Work?
Jan 14th
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This post was originally published at TweetValley.com
In the future, location will not matter…
Say goodbye to cubicle nation…
Think about this: The Future of Work is YOU!!!
Wherever You are…
Open Source Textbook Maker: FlatWorld Knowledge funded with $8 Million
Mar 24th
Free Online College Textbooks
Flat World is the world’s first publisher of open source commercial textbooks. Flat World’s textbooks are written by world-class authors. The company makes its books available as free web-hosted textbooks. It earns revenue and pays its authors royalties by providing students with options to purchase print-on-demand soft cover textbooks, audio textbooks, and self-print individual chapters at a fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks. The company enhances the learning experience by offering low-cost digital study aids like mp3 study guides, interactive web quizzes, and digital flashcards. Faculty prefer the open-source approach employed by Flat World because it gives More >
Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance
Feb 26th
Amazing Stop Motion Video
Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance Oren Lavie’s album The Opposite Side of the Sea, to be released March 2009, The song "Her Morning Elegance". This beautiful video captures this song and brings it to life. Via Oren’s MySpace page: Oren Lavie – Co-director / songwriter – He likes to create dreamy visuals from realistic elements, he enjoys squeezing big worlds into small spaces. Yuval and Merav Nathan – Co-directors / animation – Together they create a unique style that combines photography, design, 3d animation, stop motion and 2d compositing. Shir Shomron – Actress – very More >
Mac vs PC – End Game
Jan 13th
Inspired by Transformers, this short Visual Effects piece shows us what the future may hold for our home computers … the future is unknowable, but we can be sure that robotics will play a central part.
See more at NICK GREENLEE – DIGITAL COMPOSITOR, check out his 2008 demo Reel at youtube or at his site.
Apple Founders – Steve, Steve & Ron
Jan 9th
Apple Computer Company had three founders: Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs AND Ronald Gerald Wayne. Ronald Wayne had worked at Atari with Steve Jobs and the three of them co-founded Apple on April 1, 1976. Ronald had a 10% stake in Apple. Two weeks later he got cold feet because as a partner he would be legally liable for any debts incurred by the other partners so he sold his 10% for $800.00.
Later that year (1976) the Steve’s developed a business plan and incorporated Apple Computer Inc. First year’s sales (1976) reached $174,000, 2nd Year sales (1977) reached $2.7 million, by More >
From Car to Plane in 15 Seconds – Terrafugia Transition
Jan 8th
Terrafugia Transition – the roadable light sport aircraft
The two-place Transition® will be a certified Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) expected to have its first customer delivery in 2010.
Terrafugia Flying Car Update, AirVenture Oskhosh 2008
Terrafugia is a private company based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. This company is developing the Terrafugia Transition roadable aircraft AKA personal air vehicle. The Transition has powered 20 ft. folding wings and will fit into a standard garage. It will carry two people plus luggage, fly at about 100 mph and have a range of 400 miles with the 20 gal gas tank. The expected purchase price is around $194,000.00 More >
Wonder is All Around Us
Dec 24th
Awesome Dorm Light Show by a group of Polish students
Imagine the possibilities in the everyday objects all around us. How many people have looked at that dorm building during the day or at night without ever seeing past the facade?
Alltop – Guy Kawasaki’s Magazine Rack Venture
Nov 27th
Guy Kawasaki’s new site “AllTop” is an online magazine rack for just about any topic you can imagine. It displays “all the top” stories for popular topics.
Video – Alltop Tutorial
Video – Guy Kawasaki on Alltop.com with Drue from ValleyZen.com
Video – Guy Kawasaki on The Art of the Start
Spatial Operating Environment: g-speak
Nov 25th
Catch a glimpse of your future:
free-hand, three-space gestural input:
Forget GUI, and this isn’t even SUI (Spatial User Interface.) g-speak is a spatial operating environment – it understands space, geometry, your hands and what they are doing, and a huge amount of real time data. This SOE combines gestural i/o, recombinant networking and real-world pixels to achieve the first major step in computer interface since 1984. g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use computers.
One of Oblong’s founders served as a science advisor to the movie – Minority Report.
View FULL SCREEN – click the four arrows
g-speak from oblong industries
Oblong More >
Startups – Free Microsoft Software from BizSpark
Nov 5th
Microsoft has today unveiled their BizSpark initiative.
Get software, support and visibility. Microsoft is hoping to seed Silicon Valley (both real and virtual) with future customers by providing a full kit of tools and software to software development startups for free (for three years.) This is a global program that provides access to full-featured development tools with no upfront costs.
The startup must be nominated by a BizSpark network Partner, privately held, in business for less than 3 years, less than USD $1 million in annual revenue, and in the business of software development. For more details download the Microsoft BizSpark Program More >
iKIT – sub-subnotebook
Oct 20th
IMOVIO has launched today their new USD $175.00 iKIT alternative to smartphone or min-PC that is as small as a cell phone and fits in your hand!
The iKIT has a QWERTY keyboard and connects to the internet at 3G speeds via cell phone or Wi-Fi.
This Linux-based system has a good selection of applications on board including Web browsing, email, IM and a built-in Webcam. It connects to the internet with standard Wi-Fi or, using Bluetooth, through your cell phone’s mobile broadband.
IMOVIO – keep it simple
iKIT – multimedia messenger
IMOVIO iKIT Micro Laptop Computer IMOVIO Launches iKIT – New Mobile Messaging Device
iKIT Specifications – after the jump
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Bucky Paper – Harder than Diamonds
Oct 19th
10 times lighter than steel, while 250 times stronger and highly conductive of both heat and electricity, future planes and cars may be made of ‘buckypaper’:
from: buckpaper.com
Buckypaper is made of tube shaped carbon molecules (AKA carbon nanotubes) that are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.
The Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies (FAC2T) , at Florida A&M University is working on developing real world applications for the material:
Among the possible uses for buckypaper that are being researched at FAC2T:
- If exposed to an electric charge, buckypaper could be used to illuminate computer and television screens. It would be more energy-efficient, More >
Catch the MAC & OS-X Wave
Oct 19th
Apple makes great products. We have three Macs under this roof right now – a MacBook, a Mac mini, and a G4 that belong to my boys. All three running OS-X of course.
I have used PCs and windows for years. Bought my first PC in 86 and first built my own PC in 89. Before PCs, I owned a Commodore VIC 20, an Atari 400, a Sinclair ZX81, a Radio Shack Model 100, and an Apple II. I have continued to build my own PC systems over the years. In January of this year, I built my current system More >
