How to Spark Innovation
Why is it so hard to stimulate innovation inside big corporations, while at the same time VCs are awash in innovative business plans and people?
Nations:U.S. Source:(BusinessWeek)
2008-08-19
French recording may be world's first
At first listen, the grainy high-pitched warble doesn't sound like much, but scientists say the French recording from 1860 is the oldest known recorded human voice.
Nations:France
2008-03-28
Scientists make unique knee-brace power generator
Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supply of electricity.
Nations:U.S.
2008-02-07
Inventors to be honored on Capitol Hill
Inventors of the MRI, the Ethernet, the LP record and a popular weedkiller are among 18 people picked for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
2007-02-08
MetalWood bat founder seeks world markets
Jimmy Tribble sets a block of Chinese-imported bamboo on a lathe, pops a floppy disk into a computer board and in seconds carves out an otherwise ordinary-looking wood barrel for a baseball bat.
Nations:U.S. Canada China
2006-07-02
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