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Apparently, women flush too much [VIDEO]
Apparently, some women flush the toilet to cover the sound of their bodily functions. This water wasting, multiple-flushing activity must stop. You guessed it! There’s an app for that.
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A suitcase that follows you everywhere [VIDEO]
If you travel a lot, you know the importance of having the right suitcase. You need one that can fit in far too much stuff. I’m a fully fledge member of over packers anonymous. And, it needs wheels for mobility. The hop! has a whole new approach to suitcase mobility.
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How one pencil began to change the world [VIDEO]
It’s often the simplest insights that drive the greatest of ideas. Being able to write, create, doodle and draw is something most of us do, every day. This was at the heart of an idea that is now changing the lives of children in third world countries.
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Are you unreasonable? If you are, you might be able to change the world [VIDEO]
The Unreasonable Institute doesn’t really have a new formula for driving innovation and solving problems. What it does have, is a heart. And a dream. A big one.
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Why does a $200 million plane have the same bad acoustics as my local coffee shop? [VIDEO]
It’s a damn good question. Only one has wooden floors, so that’s not it. If you spend any time on aircrafts, or in most coffee shops, you start to wonder about acoustics.
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Listen up, it’s the Apple of your ear. How Apple redesigned in-ear headphones [VIDEO]
The much vaunted iPhone 5 has arrived, and as expected, sold out within hours. In all of the hoopla of the iPhone 5 launch, one little accessory didn’t get much attention. The iPhone and new iPods come with an entirely new in-ear headphones, or earpods. And, they are a design feat in themselves.
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Inventing a better light bulb. An Australian invention that would make Tesla proud [VIDEO]
An Australian startup, LIFX, has created a WiFi enabled, multi-colour, energy efficient LED light bulb. A light bulb that can be controlled to switch on or off, or strobe, or change colour, all from your iPhone or Android.
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Faster than Usain Bolt: DARPA boffins have created a super fast robot [VIDEO]
The ingenuous boffins at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) have pushed its Cheetah robot to a whole new level. The Cheetah is a four-legged robot that looks, well, a cheetah. It has a flexible spine and an articulated head. A tail may come later.
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Freewheeling: a wheelchair that is bound for the ocean [VIDEO]
In 1996 performance artist, Sue Austin found herself wheelchair bound. But, that didn’t stopped her from learning to dive. And now she has, with the help of a dedicated team, created a wheelchair that enables her to not only dive but also, seem to dance, underwater.
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Corporate Philosophy 101: Network, lead & design
Dr Richard Hames was recently described as one of this century’s most foresightful corporate philosophers, and by Forbes Asia, as one of the smartest people on the planet. He points out that today’s start-ups are far better placed to tune into the changes driving society and community than big business.
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GE throws an ‘ecomagination’ challenge
The program will pick five winners, each of whom would get $100,000, “based on the most progressive ideas that represent entrepreneurship and innovation around technologies, processes and business models.” Additionally, GE and its partners will help commercialise these ideas, which is where the bulk of the $10 million program will kick in.
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Opening a can of intellectual Red Bull: Talking innovation & entrepreneurship with the trend hunter, Jeremy Gutsche
For those who do not know Jeremy, he is the founder of trendhunter.com, which has just clocked up 1 billion impressions and is the no.1 crowdsourcing vehicle for trend spotting. Interestingly, he says not only you cannot predict the future, but that if you do, you will extrapolate the present and end up in the same place as your competitors.
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I’ve always wanted a clone. Now, my iPad can become one [VIDEO]
I don’t mean a Dr Evil Mini Me sort of clone, either. I’ve just felt that sometimes, it would be better if I could be in two places at once. Like, at home and at work. Or, better yet, diving and at home, I mean work.
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Faster than a speeding bullet: The Femto camera set to transform photography [VIDEO]
In 1964 Professor Harold Edgerton took this now-famous photo of a bullet piercing an apple. He was a pioneer in stop-action photography. This photo was taken in one millionth of a second. Now, photos can be taken in one trillionth of a second. And it may revolutionise everything.
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Building a bike out of cardboard; another impossible dream is now a reality [VIDEO]
Israeli designer, Izhar Gafni cycles as a hobby. While buying parts for his bike, he heard about someone who had built a canoe out of cardboard. At that was it. The idea was in his head. He wanted to build a bike out of cardboard. So, he did.
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If you’ve done 10 impossible things this morning … try this invisible bike helmet on for size [VIDEO]
This is one of those things that, when you see it in action, you wonder why someone didn’t think of it before.
It took the designers seven years to gather data, stage bicycle crashes, examine accident data and obtain feedback from a head trauma specialist. They raised $10 million in venture capital to test, design and perfect their design. But they did the impossible.
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Solving everyday problems: when the wind blows, your umbrella turns inside out [VIDEO]
It’s winter. It’s raining, cold. Then, the wind hits. And your umbrella does that magical thing of turning itself inside out once the wind gusts more than a grasshopper’s sneeze. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Built a better umbrella, and fewer people will get violent with…
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Kick. Push. Grind. What do skateboarding and innovation have in common? [VIDEO]
Have you ever watched skateboarders and wondered, how did they even know that trick could be done? Rodney Mullen takes the stage at TEDxUSC to explain how context provides the opportunity to create content. It’s what you already know that allows you to push beyond that, and create something new and remarkable.
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Space: it makes your feel insignificant doesn't it? [VIDEO]
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. You might think it’s a long way down to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts compared to space. And oddly, peanuts is about the same amount of funding that NASA receives to continue exploring space. Yet, without space exploration, we have no perspective on ourselves.
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Why you should fail often, in order to succeed sooner [VIDEO]
What do shopping trolleys, Free Willy and the mouse for the Apple Mac have in common? Well, it’s the stunning design process that IDEO used to design these, well sort of, every day items. Some people may have a need for an every day killer whale.
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