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What you’re looking at here is an honest-to-God 3D printed bionic ear. We’ve covered printed organs before, even printed ears before, but this is a world first for researchers to have successfully implanted functioning electronics during the biological printing process. This bionic ear includes a coiled antenna capable of picking[...]
Corporate Innovation · Technology
Like a great superhero team, Intel and Carnegie Melon have joined forces to battle one of mankind’s oldest foes: the rain. More specifically, the duo are tackling the problem of visibility while driving through the rain. With current headlights, the intense light is reflected off of each drop in front[...]
Health tech is seen by many to be the “next big thing” in entrepreneurship and investment. Between Obamacare, big data, and diagnostic apps, the field is ripe with big possibilities and big payouts. Unfortunately, health has been the next big thing for some time now. New startups crop up and[...]
Space exploration has always taken such a ginormous pile of money and technical expertise that it has remained squarely in the realm of national governments. Only in the last decade have we seen the very beginnings of the privatization of space exploration and travel. Even these for-profit companies have huge[...]
BitTorrent has gotten itself a bad rap. Their name and service have become synonymous with piracy and illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. From BitTorrent’s perspective, this is like blaming boats for actual piracy. Yes, the technology was integral to allowing the crime, but hardly the only thing it is useful for.[...]
How do you define a startup? What makes one business a startup and another just a company, At what point does a startup stop being entrepreneurial and start being corporate? These questions have come up a lot recently as the definition of startup has gotten more and more diluted. Let’s[...]
Corporate Innovation · Startups · Technology
Taking the original $100 million cost of sequencing the human genome back in 2001 of and applying Moore’s Law to it tells us that the price should have dropped to roughly $3 million today. That’s a substantial drop and one worthy of celebrating. However, what’s really worth shouting about is[...]
Corporate Innovation · Technology
Someone tell the hipsters, the social media party is officially over. Aged adults, with their walkers and Matlock, are flocking to online sharing sites at a rate that far outstrips their children and grandchildren. A full 25% of internet users aged 65+ created a social networking profile last year, while[...]
We are relentlessly creeping ever closer to hacking and controlling our biology, and we are tackling this problem from both directions. We continue to make our silicon and wire computers mimic what nature created over millions of years, and we are honing in on how that biology works in the[...]
Corporate Innovation · Technology
Our national electrical grid is an aging dinosaur, but it is one that has survived decades of attempts to change it. What possible hope does our current technology have of going up against this behemoth? According to a recently released report from the Edison Electric Institute entitled Disruptive Challenges: Financial[...]