The scientist who ensured Oscar Pistorius is allowed to participate in this year’s Olympics is a double amputee who climbs sheer cliff faces with the limbs he invented. And Professor Hugh Herr predicts Pistorius could, if he wanted to, smash the fastest able-bodied sprint times in the future, and that paralympians will make Olympic sprinters…
Day three of Macworld | iWorld in San Francisco officially wrapped up late this afternoon at the Moscone Center. The event, which featured vendors, app developers, and startups, drew major crowds on Saturday. Macworld magazine analyzed over one hundred new products this year and announced the winners of their Best in Show award on Saturday.…
It was a swift, and surprisingly productive, about-turn. After declaring war on the IMF and repeatedly rejecting calls from the EU to change contentious laws, Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, insisted this week in Brussels that he was open to discussion. “We are ready to consult on all issues,” he told the Wall Street…
Microsoft apparently wants Kinect enabled hardware everywhere. A source close to The Daily, the iPad only magazine created by a collaboration between Apple and NewsCorp, told them that the company is trying to get Kinect sensors embedded in laptops, now. Beyond the fact that the company is trying to get these things made, details are…
MORRISTOWN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–After being shuttered for more than six years, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Hyatt Regency New Orleans recently reopened following a $275 million redesign and revitalization. “The PORT Technology makes possible a truly networked environment at Hyatt Regency New Orleans that recognizes occupants and responds to their individual needs” The 1,193-room hotel…
TechTrade | 27 Jan 2012 : NovaUCD-based energy management company Wattics has been named as a finalist for the Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards 2012. Wattics has developed a ‘smarter metering’ system that uses a clip-on sensor and software to manage companies’ energy consumption down to the level of individual devices, identifying ineffeciencies and helping…
MORRISTOWN, N.J., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – After being shuttered for more than six years, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Hyatt Regency New Orleans recently reopened following a $275 million redesign and revitalization. The 1,193-room hotel offers the city’s largest hotel event space, doubled to 200,000 square feet and features Schindler Elevator Corporation’s…
Pittsford, NY, January 25, 2012 –(PR.com)– UK-based Plessey, with a long and distinguished history of innovative design, complemented by its own manufacturing facilities, has appointed Saelig Co. Inc. (USA) as its technical distributor for its novel EPIC ECG sensor ICs. Plessey manufactures semiconductor components for the global electronics industry with extensive expertise in RF, analog,…
Did it seem as if HTC unveiled a new phone every other week last year? Well, the company feels the same way, and it plans to scale back its smartphone launches in 2012, with a focus of quality over quantity. In an interview with Mobile magazine, HTC UK boss Phil Roberson said the Taiwan-based manufacturer…
Peter Diamandis: Rocket Man Brian Caulfield Forbes Staff Ray Kurzweil On The Future Of Innovation At Singularity University Ted Greenwald Contributor Peter Diamandis On Why Businesses Should Be Optimistic About The Future Ted Greenwald Contributor This excerpt from ’Abundance: Why the Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think’ (Free Press, 2012) by Peter H.…
