Archive for the ‘innovation’ category: Page 185
Apr 7, 2017
In Defense of Pet Causes — By Ian David Moss | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: innovation
“The effective altruism movement could be more effective if it encouraged adoption of its principles within causes and geographies, not just across them.”
Apr 7, 2017
Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: innovation
NASA has announced the recipients of its most recent round of highly experimental projects it deems promising enough to fund. These NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts aren’t guaranteed to go all the way, but are rather sort of low-risk, high potential reward moonshots — science fiction they hope will be more the former than the latter.
The awards are a regular occurrence and divided into Phase I and Phase II: Phase I projects are more or less in the concept stage and will get around $125,000 over 9 months to see if they’re at all viable, essentially from “might work” to “should work.” Phase II projects get a more flexible amount, but as much as half a million dollars over 2 years, to see about going from “should work” to “works.”
The full list of awards can be found here, but I’ve selected a few I think are especially promising.
Continue reading “Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding” »
Apr 3, 2017
Silicon Valley is living in a bubble of technology that’s not accessible to the rest of the world
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: futurism, innovation
Science-fiction author William Gibson famously said, “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
Nowhere is that more true than in the tech world, where it’s easy to think that innovations, products and services available to us are ubiquitous, even when their distribution is, in fact, very limited.
Many of the innovations that we take for granted are simply not available elsewhere.
Apr 2, 2017
Breakthrough Starshot Project Amps Up: Ball, Brakes To Be Added Into The Interstellar Sail
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: innovation, space
Scientists are proposing new methods of stabilizing the design of the first of its kind tiny and lightweight space probe.
(Photo : SciNews/YouTube screenshot)
Mar 31, 2017
Artificial Intelligence Tech Will Arrive in Three Waves
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
DARPA envisions this development to come in three waves of innovation, culminating in machines capable of abstract thought.
Mar 28, 2017
Why IBM’s speech recognition breakthrough matters for AI and IoT
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
IBM recently announced that its speech recognition system achieved an industry record of 5.5% word error rate, coming closer to human parity. Here’s what it means for enterprises.
Mar 25, 2017
Major Breakthrough Could Enable Mass Produced Artificial Blood
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
Every minute in the United States, 30 people require a blood transfusion. That equates to a lot of blood, and the problem is that not enough people donate. This bottleneck has long been an issue for medicine, and so many have been trying to find a way to artificially create large volumes to meet this demand.
A team of researchers from the University of Bristol and NHS Blood and Transplant may have finally cracked it. They’ve made a major breakthrough in the process of mass producing red blood cells, in what could technically be an unlimited supply of the stuff. While they now have a biological way of achieving this, they now need the manufacturing technology on a large enough scale in order to mass produce it.
Scientists have been able to create artificial blood before, but these earlier methods have been incredibly inefficient. They worked by taking stem cells, and then directly inducing them to form red blood cells. By doing this, they could create maybe 50,000 cells in one go, far short of the trillions typically needed for a blood transfusion.
Continue reading “Major Breakthrough Could Enable Mass Produced Artificial Blood” »
Mar 25, 2017
How to Pack for the Apocalypse
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: business, innovation
Bug-out bags/survival kits are a controversial topic. Everybody has a different philosophy about what makes a good one. This is Brent’s. While bigger and heavier than a lot of the bags you’ll see online, you can keep it in the closet by your front door or the trunk of your car, and you’ll be prepared for an emergency that could last many days. Brent’s kit doubles as a slick backpacking setup, so you’ll get to know your gear extremely well, and you get to have fun with it, too.
Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7
Mar 22, 2017
A map of open innovation practices — By Eugene Ivanov | Innovation Observer
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: innovation
“A problem that I see with the current literature on open innovation is that while focusing predominantly on theoretical aspects of the concept (value proposition, strategic alignments, governance and management, human capital and culture), it pays little attention to the description of specific open innovation practices.”