The Stamp Mobile: A Crazy Money Marking Contraption
Ben Cohen wanted to take on the man. He enlisted the San Francisco maker community, and built a noisy, carnivalesque, vaudeville-style device, full of bright-colored wood and plastic and metal, to drive around the country and stamp slogans on money.
Inside the Cycleplex: The Weird, Wild World of Google Bikes
Corporate bike fleets have become commonplace on sprawling Silicon Valley campuses over the past decade. Apple has campus bikes, as do Facebook, LinkedIn and others. But there’s nothing quite like Google’s.
Say goodbye to clunky cash management. Hello Square Up.
Tired of clunky cash registers like everyone else? The customer transacation process has long suffered from a lack of innovation. Enter the Square Stand - an elegant square stand with a credit card swiper that has the ability to integrate with other printers and scanners. Now there’s something we can all respect.
Interested customers can pre-order the stand online for $299; it will be available for purchase in Best Buy stores and other select retailers starting the week of July 8. Square Stand currently works only with an iPad 2 or 3, but a version for tablets with Lightning connectors will be available later this year. Beginning May 15, a handful of local merchants around the country will run their business using the Square Stand.
Tesla, Google Exploring ‘Autopilot’ Car Technology
Bloomberg’s Jamie Butters explains that Tesla is discussing a partnership with Google to develop a driverless, autopilot system for Tesla cars.
Decades-old stroke damage reversible with oxygen therapy
Up to 20 years after suffering a stroke, patients in Israel are reporting remarkable improvements in brain function with calibrated oxygen treatments inside hyperbaric chambers. While treating stroke patients with hyperbaric oxygen is nothing new, the fact that it can be effective after so many years is an exciting new development according to specialists at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center.
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Robot
Kickstarter Romotive have created an affordable robot that utilizes the processing power of a smartphone. The WSJ’s Michael Kofsky talks about why this innovation could power the future of robotics.
Navy Tests High-Tech Tools Against Smugglers
The U.S. Navy on Friday began testing two new aerial tools, borrowed from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, that officials say will make it easier to detect, track and videotape drug smugglers in action.
The Best Is Yet To Come
Carlos Dominguez is a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems and a technology evangelist, speaking to and motivating audiences worldwide about how technology is changing how we communicate, collaborate, and especially how we work. Carlos gives humorous, highly-animated presentations full of deep insight into how technology, and the right culture, can create winning companies.
Drawing from his 20 years at Cisco, he talks about how technology is changing the rules of business and how to not get left behind.addresses many questions about collaboration including what motivates people to collaborate, how to establish rewards for collaborating, how to find the right experts both inside and outside your company, and how to keep people coming together — online and in person.
Glass Steve Jobs Made Famous Now Bigger than Apple’s iPhone
Bloomberg’s Adam Johnson visits the Corning Glass’s New York headquarters, where Guerilla Glass is fabricated. The primary encasement for Apple’s iPhone, the glass product is ubquitous across the consumer electronics industry.
Successful Launch for Antares
Orbital Sciences Antares rocket successfully launched at 5 p.m., Sunday, April 21 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. All system nominal.
The Antares launch vehicle made its maiden flight Sunday, launching from Pad 0A at the Wallops Flight Facility, Va. at 5 p.m. Eastern time on a test flight that served as the precursor for a demonstration flight of its Cygnus resupply ship to the International Space Station later this year.
Antares will be delivering a mass simulator payload to orbit 10 minutes after launch designed to mimic the Cygnus spacecraft’s weight and characteristics.
