Everything we thought we knew about privacy needs rethinking
Could health authorities force us to publish every detail of our daily activities by insisting we all carry smartphones with monitoring apps revealing not just how long we slept, but where?
Watch influencers offer predictions on major tech acquisitions
The second half of 2010 is looking better than last year, a surge is expected, heralding a very hectic end of year M&A traffic jam
Dell’s datacenter vanishing trick: all is revealed
Watch them explain how they take something that consumes the same amount of electrical power as over 8,000 staff and just make it disappear
Rocket scientist, games patriarch, same guy
Carmack never ceases to amaze, but the infamous pony tail is probably gone forever
The quango as heroic green knight?
Private equity hesitancy contrasted with prompt public funding of green innovation
Someone please tell me I’m not the only one!
This video about replacing yourself with a robot seriously creeps me out. But I still want to try it.
The valley’s angel scene is going crazy
It’s unrecognisable from just a few years ago: lots more angels, much bigger sums, many more investments
Secretive leading biotech dealmakers caught talking unguardedly on video
MIT somehow managed to make this happen in New York recently (warning: contains disturbingly graphic images of a ‘banker guy’ talking candidly about pharma deals)
Are some things just too personal to share?
Your most private functions may soon not be quite so private
Urgent briefing requirement: Stem cells and regenerative medicine
These issues are constantly in the news: the media never gives you enough background, but this video does that job and a great deal more
Who is todays greatest innovation visionary?
In the 60s and 70s, the title ‘Oracle of the electric age’ was given to one man
You may not be a Web designer, but…
It might just be useful to see the world from their perspective: this video does quite a good job of conveying their ultimate ‘nightmare experience’: the dreaded Design Review with the client
What is this thing called Transmedia?
And what really happened at 8pm on the 17th of November 1978?
Haunted by the price of commercial success: using up the planet’s resources
Who you gonna call? These guys aren’t Ghostbusters, but they do believe they’ve discovered how to banish the spectre of industrial wastefulness
Put the kettle on – the nanotech teabag has arrived
Safe drinking water is still an issue in many parts of the world. Will the nanotech teabag provide a solution to this problem?
Birds do it: but can we fly without destroying the planet?
This fascinating Stanford University video explores what can be done to make aviation more sustainable
Not ashamed of your product on day one?
Then maybe you should be ashamed of launching it way too late
Carbon magnets have spintronics potential
Dutch researchers have explained how a form of carbon, acts as a magnet, paving the way for its use in biosensors, smart materials and spintronics.
Fertiliser firm steps up into vertical farming
US fertilser firm Converted Organics has bought vertical farming specialist TerraSphere and entered the pharmaceuticals market
High hopes for high-rise horticulture
Vertical farmers offer their vision of the future in a video
A tale of two planes
Different dreams, startlingly brought to reality, but still mostly futuristic dreams for most of us
Getting old, dying and other endangered ideas
A long-awaited documentary examines human mortality. The controversy is more about separating science from pseudo-science than about longevity
Can a budget airline out-innovate the full price squadron?
Will spoilt holidays and disrupted travel become a thing of the past? easyJet hopes its new technology will allow travellers to keep on flying, despite eruptions like the one earlier this year
What on earth is an Anthropreneur?
Need to attack poverty, environmental and language issues simultaneously? Then maybe you need one of these: as far as inspiring videos go, I haven’t seen anything much better than this
Underwhelmed by interfaces? Want to see what’s coming next?
Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report Interface’ guru tells us all what he’s been working on
Cameron on innovation and power
Watch the new UK premier explaining his ideas about innovation, before he got the job
New health data ideas suddenly go viral in government
Have political types trying to look cool unleashed a medical monster?
Carbon negative products – what are they?
Are they as positive as they sound?
This call is being recorded for training purposes
Want to know what happens after your calls are recorded?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
What do you get when you cross augmented reality with cosmetics?
Martyn Poliakoff: green chemist, big hair, YouTube god?
Even his much more famous brother is probably not as famous online
What’s stopping start-ups in the EU?
Are we making European start-ups abscond to the US?
Eye tracking technology that doesn’t attract the eye
Replacing bulky ‘face furniture’ could help researchers get more accurate results
Rescuing crash victims just got a whole lot easier
New tools for tearing wreckage apart to get trapped occupants out of mangled vehicles
Sustainability and innovation: an oil company’s view
They tell us how they see the future in this video
Left Microsoft for Google: What’s startup catalyst Don Dodge doing now?
Here he is chairing a panel of top VCs on the ‘freemium’ business model [Video]
Is healthcare data just a game?
US government initiative spawns ‘Community Clash’
Shapeshifting is no longer science fiction
Making things change to the shape you want : a video briefing on Shape Memory Materials
So you thought Venter’s ‘Creating life’ was the biggest Biotech story ever?
I’m not so sure he thinks so. In this video, you might just learn why
OLPC plans $75 kids’ tablet PC
One Laptop Per Child plans to have an open source $75 tablet PC with a semi-flexible plastic touch screen available in 2012.
Did the recent “We’ve Just Created Life” coverage leave you feeling a bit ‘engineered’?
Sounds like you need to watch a Video of the Synthetic Biology Debate at the Edinburgh Science Festival
Why not update yourself on seven major robotics projects at once?
Here’s a video with a commentary by the man at the centre of the research
The eCar guys that don’t build cars
Who are those guys? If they don’t build cars, what do they do? This short video tells you exactly what the eCar guys do.
Balanced assessment of China’s Green Transport efforts?
It starts off pretty positive, even supportive, but it doesn’t back away from asking some hardball questions [Video]
Easy being green? Not if you make mobile handsets
It’s all the consumer’s fault (green mobile phone consciousness is only just warming up)
Working with the Y (Why?) Generation
A battle to reinvent the way you see your workforce [Video]
Bluffer’s guide to gene therapy
A 10-minute video guide to gene therapy
Slimy but not Sleazy!
Biofuels extracted from algae. Is this the way forward in solving the fuel problem?
Giant Steps in Nanotech
Want to find out more about nanotech? This video gives a good explanation in a way that’s easy to understand.
Round-up: nanotech provides battery power
Image via Wikipedia We could go on and on like the Duracell bunny about advances in battery and super-capacitor technology but we’ve decided to go with the flow (of ions)…