Technology
Tesla tiny house goes on tour in a brilliant new marketing campaign
How do you make a sexy story out of clean energy? You humanize your solar energy brand by incorporating it into a home and taking that home on a road trip. Brilliant. After all, we can all relate to a home. Even if it is tiny. Tesla, Elon Musk’s clean energy company,...
Tesla tiny house goes on tour in a brilliant new marketing campaign
How do you make a sexy story out of clean energy? You humanize your solar energy brand by incorporating it into a home and taking that home on a road trip. Brilliant. After all, we can all relate to a home. Even if it is tiny. Tesla, Elon Musk’s clean energy company,...
These incredibly cute robots are helping break the isolation of homebound children
Two years ago journalist James Vincent wrote an article about being at work in the office from 3,500 miles away. Vincent lives in Britain and he needed to speak to his boss and meet colleagues in the New York office. He managed that via a telepresence. Telepresence...
World renowned adviser reveals a new plan to make sure robots are our friends
The coming participation of robots in every aspect of our lives is a confusing prospect: it’s at once exciting and threatening. Above all, it’s inevitable and there is not a job that is not threatened. And what do you to earn an income if you have to give up your job...
A real-life, all-electric flying car just took off
The age of technology is really hard on regulators. They have to figure out how to incorporate internet-of-things to make smart cities a reality; how to provide sustainable clean energy; where AI fits into all this and they have transport challenges. If it isn’t...
Elon Musk believes it’s possible to power the entire United States with solar energy
The world's largest solar power plant, Karmuthi in Tamil Nadu, India, covers an area of almost 4 square miles, and is expected to power 150,000 homes. That’s impressive, but tiny compared to what Elon Musk has in mind. Think 100 square miles powering the whole of the...
7 incredible TED talks that explain how Big Data is changing the world
Over the last 15 years, the emergence of Big Data has been perhaps the single largest change in how business is done. It's important for everyone to understand what it is and how it's changing the world. Early on, companies struggled to create the basic infrastructure...
Machines Soon Will Be Controlled By Your Thought
Can you imagine a world where machines can be controlled by thought alone?
MIT’s Furry Wetsuits Will Keep You Warm In Icy Water
Inspired by hairy, semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and sea otters, a group of MIT engineers are fabricating fur-like rubbery pelts learn how these mammals stay warm and even dry while diving underwater.
Would You Buy a Car That’s Programmed to Kill You?
As machines become increasingly autonomous by which I mean they can sense their environment and they can make decisions about what to do or what not to do. Of course it’s based on the programming and their experience. But we don’t have as direct control over what they do as we do today with the kinds of technology that we have.