Category: Technology

Europe, Global View, Innovation & Strategic, Life itself, Technology, UK, Web & Consumer Tech...

World record for the most innovations in a single experience? 

A YouTube clip of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page playing a slow soulful country music version of a classical Chopin prelude with jazz-style backing at London’s Royal Albert Hall accompanied by a giant church organ. He was using a guitar internally modified so that you could bend its B string by pulling down against its shoulder strap peg in 1983

Biotech, Global View, Green Tech, Innovation & Strategic, Nanotech, Technology, The Americas, ...

Yeah, like, there’s this professor that GROWS electrical kit 

Apart from biology, our physical world is mostly either dumb, rock hard, or both. We use that hard, dumb stuff to make durable things like tools, vehicles and buildings. Biology, although soft, squishy and smart, somehow also manages to grow incredibly hard things, like shells and teeth. Maybe biology can teach us better ways to make hard stuff too

Design, Entrepreneur's Briefcase, Global View, Green Tech, Innovation & Strategic, Technology, Web & Consumer Tech...

The iij top 20 upcoming design books for innovators 

These titles are at the leading edge of thinking about where design and innovation meet. Not just in predictable design territory, such as consumer products or web and mobile apps, but also in such diverse fields as cultural development, physiological experience analysis and architectural kinetics

Business Angels, Entrepreneur's Briefcase, Global View, Green Tech, Innovation & Strategic, Investment, Private Equity & Venture Capital, ...

What did the budget do for UK innovation investors? 

Of the incentives announced in the budget, perhaps the most important for innovation may be the increase in the rate of income tax relief. Share scheme specialist Russell Eisen compares the chancellor’s announcements with innovation champion Julie Meyer’s pre-budget suggestions

Academia, Education, Global View, Innovation & Strategic, Investment, Life itself, Private Equity & Venture Capital, ...

Must-see video of banker doing something wonderful 

‘My twelve year old son has autism, and has a terrible time with math. We have tried everything, viewed everything, bought everything. We stumbled upon your video on decimals, and it got through! Then we went on to the dreaded fractions. Again, he got it! We could not believe it! He is so excited.’