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and every about Innovation for better living.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-15796884882364178282014-04-28T03:59:00.001-07:002014-04-28T04:01:38.540-07:00How Twitter Wants to Be Your TV<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3y1qdxSAy-jb2Ahk_qC6sWBy5yTnSNPJoe5McQiwjeaQ4xqWT3XF-UEHc3IHlT3tbbEggk4jK0XUYRAOABpgr5OsliXgvlzfO3DVhYAtCSJaoeP-2oBn0NhfoPCB8VjDV3NrmWj27REak/s1600/Twitter+TV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3y1qdxSAy-jb2Ahk_qC6sWBy5yTnSNPJoe5McQiwjeaQ4xqWT3XF-UEHc3IHlT3tbbEggk4jK0XUYRAOABpgr5OsliXgvlzfO3DVhYAtCSJaoeP-2oBn0NhfoPCB8VjDV3NrmWj27REak/s1600/Twitter+TV.jpg" height="213" width="320"></a>Lady Gaga is performing at a show, has a blast and posts it
online for her fans to see and in about minutes, puuf, over 10 million people gets to know and also
share the post with other people following them. Getting snippets of events
happening right now is the average internet user's utility for Twitter either
with close friends or celebrity. But something is about to change big time due
in no small part to Twitter Amplify, a year-old program that has allowed the
company to snag a piece of the billions of dollars spent annually on TV ads. This is the thrill of audience commercialization. Read on.<br>
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</div><a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-twitter-wants-to-be-your-tv.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-36824304418563216692012-12-04T04:30:00.001-08:002012-12-04T04:30:12.363-08:00Designer Credit Cards: MasterCard rolls out cards with LCD display and keypad <div class="">
<a href="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-12-03/1203_ePlate_630x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Pimp My Credit Card" border="0" height="213" src="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-12-03/1203_ePlate_630x420.jpg" title="Pimp My Credit Card" width="320"></a>For several years, personalizing a credit card mainly meant
you could pick the image on your card. You customize the image using a
tool on the card issuer’s website (my personal favorite: upload a photo
so your face can be surrounded by a bunch of jelly beans), then wait a week for the card to show up in the mail.</div>
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mobile payments start to gain traction, some card issuers have looked
for ways to let customers interact with their cards in a more tech-savvy
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For starters, the next time you receive a new card from your bank, don't be surprised if it has a keypad and LCD on it. Standard Chartered is doing it! Find out more. <br>
<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/12/designer-credit-cards-mastercard-rolls.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-85801471368858795652012-11-24T10:04:00.000-08:002012-11-24T10:05:00.975-08:00What is Data Bartering and its Multi Billion dollar industry?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Noam Bardin wanted to expand the reach of his company’s mobile mapping app to South America. It was a bold idea, but an expensive one. So over the past year, Bardin, the chief executive officer of Palo Alto-based Waze, met with resellers of geographical mapping information and asked them for access to their proprietary data. The catch: The Israeli entrepreneur said that he didn’t want to pay a dime to get it.<br />
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In return, Bardin offered to trade some of the data on automobile traffic, speed traps, roadwork, and collisions that his company would collect from new South American users of its app. One of the companies, Multispectral, signed on in January, and six months later the Waze app rolled out to drivers throughout Brazil. “It would have taken us a year and a half to get there on our own,” Bardin says.<br />
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Bardin’s Waze and other companies are at the forefront of a new trend called data bartering, where companies exchange databases like baseball cards, with no money changing hands. App makers are pursuing all manner of targeted consumer data—from restaurant ratings to store hours—but it’s often expensive to acquire. Data swapping can be a win-win if both sides have complementary proprietary research. “We live in an age where the ability to capture data has never been greater,” says J.P. Rangaswami, the chief scientist for Salesforce.com (CRM). “It’s a commodity now.”<br />
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A market for data swaps is rapidly emerging. Factual, a Los Angeles-based startup, has put together a database that houses location data and details on retailers and restaurants. Access to the database costs companies money, but they can accrue discounts by agreeing to contribute some of their own information.<br />
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For the larger companies that are willing to share, Factual is effectively free, says Gil Elbaz, the company’s CEO, who previously built Google’s (GOOG) advertising platform for third-party websites. Facebook (FB), Groupon (GRPN), and consumer ratings site Yelp are among the clients providing user-contributed information on retailers to Factual’s database. Danny Rimer, a general partner at Index Ventures, which invested in Factual, says other industries could benefit from data bartering as well. Farms, for instance, could trade information about soil quality and crop yields to better understand how to tend to their plots.<br />
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Factual scours the Web for detailed information about shops, restaurants, and landmarks, and organizes it into a standard format that clients can pull into their apps. The system also can take data feeds from clients and optimize them, if necessary, to ensure that everything is up to date and suitable for use by others.<br />
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That saves startups the time and expense of having to keep enormous amounts of data organized, says Trevin Chow, who considered selling some of the information collected by his restaurant review app Chewsy before deciding to use Factual to exchange information about restaurants’ Twitter accounts, websites, phone numbers, and other details. Foursquare, the New York-based mobile check-in app, is a Factual client as well, but it also employs a dozen data scientists, or about 8 percent of its staff, says Dennis Crowley, the company’s CEO. Three of the eight employees at Sonar, which makes a similar app, are dedicated to analyzing data full-time. “There’s so much data out there that you could bankrupt yourself trying to manage it,” says Brett Martin, Sonar’s CEO and co-founder.<br />
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Although not a Factual customer, Waze has attracted some 30 million users to its app with help from several data swap deals, including one with Apple (AAPL) that Bardin declines to discuss because the terms are private. The company is building its business on advertising. Earlier this month it added digital billboards to its app that pop up when users drive past a certain location. To draw even more users and attract advertising dollars, Bardin says he next wants to strike bartering deals with city governments, which have access to data on traffic lights, parking meters, and police routes—valuable information that no one else has.<br />
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The bottom line: App developers are bartering data to accumulate hard-to-get information and make and save money.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-34561645995231351132012-11-22T10:38:00.001-08:002012-11-22T10:38:26.996-08:00Behind Israel's Iron Dome: How This Marvel Stops Missiles<br>
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The success of Israel’s Iron Dome in shooting down missiles fired from Gaza has a lot to do with a company you’ve probably never heard of: MPrest Systems. Led by a retired Israeli naval captain named Natan Barak, MPrest makes the smarts of Iron Dome. According to the company’s website, its computer technology performs “air awareness picture building, target classification, calculating interception programs, and controlling launch and interception processes.”<br>
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I used to wonder if its possible for one not to fear bullets. Imagine padding yourself with some white stuff that automatically makes it impossible for bullet to touch you!</div>
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Well, researchers at a Rice University lab are researching technology that
that could potentially stop a 9-millimeter bullet and seal the entryway
behind it - an advance that may have huge implications for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1353006617_2">ballistic protection</span> for soldiers, as well as other uses.</div>
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During tests, the researchers were able to shoot tiny glass beads at the
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<a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/184ecer32fgq9jpg/original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/184ecer32fgq9jpg/original.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" height="180" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/184ecer32fgq9jpg/original.jpg" width="320"></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">As ma<span style="font-size: small;">ny of my reader</span> m<span style="font-size: small;">ay not be <span style="font-size: small;">aware, i have taken up a full time employment with a new personal care <span style="font-size: small;">FMCG company. Coming from my background and years of a exper<span style="font-size: small;">ience, i have been feeling like a champ until it d<span style="font-size: small;">awned on m<span style="font-size: small;">e this morning that the <span style="font-size: small;">game <span style="font-size: small;">has ch<span style="font-size: small;">anged; i now have a boss over me who could talk to me/critici<span style="font-size: small;">se me </span>and today we exchanged some "unpleas<span style="font-size: small;">ant" words and i tho<span style="font-size: small;">ught to my who <span style="font-size: small;">on earth d<span style="font-size: small;">oes he think he is but i soon realized that i needed to learn how to take criticis<span style="font-size: small;">m li</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">ke a champ a<span style="font-size: small;">nd run with it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1><a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-take-constructive-criticism-like.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-41613897264756898502012-11-05T07:10:00.002-08:002012-11-05T07:10:59.368-08:00Meet Nick D'Aloisio, 17-Year Old Millionaire App Whiz Kid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He is onto his fourth major iPhone app and his first startup. He has
caught the attention of someone who previously invested in Skype,
Facebook and Spotify. He thinks Google’s UI is not current with the web.
And he is only sixteen. Meet London-based Nick D’Aloisio!<br>
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Even in a world of conspicuously young tech CEOs, Nick D'Aloisio stands out. On Thursday, the “Internet’s boy genius,” as GigaOM’s Om Malik dubbed him, launched the second, totally revamped version of his news summarization app, <a href="http://summly.com/" target="_hplink">Summly</a>. It was also his 17th birthday.<br>
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Can you imagine walking away from a share of $100 billion because your father said "no"?<br>
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Joe Green is Mark Zuckerberg’s former Harvard roommate and the man who reportedly walked away from a Facebook fortune.<br>
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largest number of motorcycles circulation in the whole world. <span> </span>“Okada” as they are popularly called; is most favored
by almost everyone, rich and poor because it is fast, cheap and less crowded.
But this mode of transportation has taken a new and dangerous dimension in
Lagos due to the New Lagos Traffic Law which has banned its operation on major
roads and some lucrative areas. Just a few days a ago, as I was coming back
from work, I saw some Okada riders running at such speed that one fell straight
into a ditch; twisting one of his knees and cutting off completely the toes of
his passenger. This was just because they sited police a vehicle. The new Lagos
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As usual, I began to ponder on a possible solution to this very
dire situation and I stumbled upon a very successful bike transportation model
called Bike Sharing that is working pretty well in America and I though to share
it with my readers, the government and possibly implement it here in Nigeria. </div>
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<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/solving-okada-ban-problem-bike-sharing.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-54929544691369156752012-10-24T07:03:00.000-07:002012-10-24T07:03:03.013-07:00Why Lagos and Cape Town made the list of world's Most Innovative Cities<div class="pvabstract" id="pvabstract">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdd4GOTbVv7hVWjIrF6oVo4oSE8-HR2Ee2ILlHrF9OcrB3idx3TZeTu54jVQlT4rYCharBzIC9Bxy87eNREP3FEPxHfuguT_OTbPF-g6-Ayj_Ca6RZTWYs0dUp1FbbtkZ1HFFbJY1EkzDP/s1600/lagos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdd4GOTbVv7hVWjIrF6oVo4oSE8-HR2Ee2ILlHrF9OcrB3idx3TZeTu54jVQlT4rYCharBzIC9Bxy87eNREP3FEPxHfuguT_OTbPF-g6-Ayj_Ca6RZTWYs0dUp1FbbtkZ1HFFbJY1EkzDP/s320/lagos.jpg" width="320"></a>Only two African cities, Lagos and Cape Town, got the nod in the list of the world's 25 most innovative cities.<br>
The
competition, which is jointly sponsored by Citigroup and the Urban Land
Institute, assesses the sustainability and liveability of cities
worldwide. Cities were judged on their commitment to development and the
willingness of their leaders to show initiative. here is why our dear Lagos and Cafe Town made this coveted list. <br>
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Yahoo Inc's new
37 years old CEO Marissa Mayer sketched out her plan for revamping the mobile and
search advertising business on Monday, outlining publicly for the first
time her vision for getting the ailing Web company back on its feet. But the thought on everyone's mind at the event was "how cute is she?" let me know.<br>
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</span></span><a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-cute-is-yahoos-new-ceo-and-her.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-53552078483470896832012-10-20T06:52:00.002-07:002012-10-20T06:52:43.858-07:00How you sleep at night reveal who you really are in the day<a href="http://health.yahoo.net/yahoohealth/images/articles/1-sleep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Courtesy of Cascade News" border="0" height="210" src="http://health.yahoo.net/yahoohealth/images/articles/1-sleep.jpg" style="vertical-align: middle;" title="Courtesy of Cascade News" width="320"></a>Your sleep habits
may be more revealing than you think, according to a surprising new study. A
body language expert has analyzed common sleep positions and reports that they
can reveal how stressed you are. Sleep position also offers insights into such traits as
bossiness, stubbornness, being self-critical, and whether people feel they’re
in control of their life.<br>
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<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-you-sleep-at-night-reveal-who-you.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-70983152243063511192012-10-20T06:42:00.000-07:002012-10-20T06:42:14.412-07:00Office Upgrade: The Wooden Keyboard with Nature Feel<div id="story_body">
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<a href="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-10-18/1018_natural_keyboard_630x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Office Upgrade: The Wooden Keyboard" border="0" height="213" src="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-10-18/1018_natural_keyboard_630x420.jpg" title="Office Upgrade: The Wooden Keyboard" width="320"></a><strong>What it is:</strong> A converted Apple wireless keyboard<br><strong>Cost:</strong> N/A</div>
Over two weeks, the 25-year-old graduate student at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program fashioned an <span class="ticker_wrap">Apple (AAPL)</span> wireless keyboard with a textured, inspired-by-nature aesthetic. It quickly drew attention from design websites.<br>
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</div></div></div><a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/office-upgrade-wooden-keyboard-with.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-67596822456113817192012-10-20T06:30:00.001-07:002012-10-20T06:30:28.901-07:00A Tour of Google's Top-Secret Data Center<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/10/ff_googleinfrastructure3_f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="size-full wp-image-31408" data-lazy-loaded="true" height="213" src="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/10/ff_googleinfrastructure3_f.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="ff_googleinfrastructure3_f" width="320"></a><strong>If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age —</strong>
a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the
kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir,
North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture
factries. Now it’s the home of a Google data center.<br>
<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-tour-of-googles-top-secret-data-center.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-87600639553889046392012-10-20T06:18:00.000-07:002012-10-20T06:18:11.054-07:00What to Do If There's a Mountain Lion in Your Office<div id="story_body">
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<a href="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-05-23/0523_lion_630x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="What to Do If There's a Mountain Lion in Your Office" border="0" height="213" src="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-05-23/0523_lion_630x420.jpg" title="What to Do If There's a Mountain Lion in Your Office" width="320"></a>On Tuesday a mountain lion found its way to an office courtyard
in Santa Monica. It was killed after attempts to tranquilize it failed
to stop it from trying to escape. Some are criticizing police for
shooting the animal, but most members of the urban workforce don’t
actually have any plan if they came in contact with a mountain lion (be
honest). The chances of this happening in an office on the East Coast or
the Midwest are almost nil, but it never hurts to be prepared.</div>
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</div></div></div><a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-to-do-if-theres-mountain-lion-in.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-47645669568446543582012-10-16T09:39:00.003-07:002012-10-16T09:52:25.199-07:00Your next Bra might feature pocket for carrying phones and keys!<a href="http://www.springwise.com/img/uploads/2012/10/joeybra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="alttext" border="0" class="attachment-main-size wp-post-image" height="150" src="http://www.springwise.com/img/uploads/2012/10/joeybra.jpg" title="Bra features pocket for carrying phones and keys" width="320"></a>Men’s underwear has already been modified to give them added functionality thanks to <a class="unbold" href="http://www.springwise.com/fashion_beauty/slyunderwear/">Sly Underwear</a>, and now <a href="http://www.joeybra.com/">JoeyBra</a> is doing the same for women’s undergarments with a side pocket for carrying world's most essential items: mobile phones and keys.<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">JoeyBra products include a side pocket that could eliminate the need for women to carry a purse.</span></span></h2>
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We’ve already seen shoes, meeting tables and handbags used to charge mobile devices, but it wasn’t until just recently that we had seen anything like the Electree.
Mimicking the appearance of a bonsai tree, the customizable sculpture
features photovoltaic panels in place of leaves, allowing it to recharge
devices using just the power of light.<br>
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<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/this-office-sculpture-can-charge-over.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-31566919843057227742012-10-13T10:21:00.002-07:002012-10-13T10:21:22.149-07:00Taking a nap is smart. How to get a perfect nap, everytime.<a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/181tujercrg4bjpg/original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/181tujercrg4bjpg/original.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" height="180" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/181tujercrg4bjpg/original.jpg" width="320"></a>According to a growing body of research, <b>napping is a smart thing to do.</b> It can help refresh the mind, make you more creative, boost your intelligence,
and even help you live a longer, healthier life. It's slowly gaining
acceptance as part of a healthy lifestyle, even in some corporate
offices. Read on as I share the science behind the need to nap, and a
scientist-approved method for taking the ideal snooze. <br>
<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/taking-nap-is-smart-how-to-get-perfect.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-65522934327074804092012-10-12T09:14:00.000-07:002012-10-12T09:14:34.629-07:00Why Your Next Car Could Come With Transparent Back Seats<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlTxziXjA8lyMiXF7XBYV-peNu99SLteL1Fb40fHAdGThNAefrXgeE3vHqxL9MSjz6hE0ACOjlC6Q-tjBptojKsB1OK96_YsUFXDlzDynigplZO1s4ByO-IufBOcvbpRgemEmhERq0aJy/s1600/see-through-prius.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlTxziXjA8lyMiXF7XBYV-peNu99SLteL1Fb40fHAdGThNAefrXgeE3vHqxL9MSjz6hE0ACOjlC6Q-tjBptojKsB1OK96_YsUFXDlzDynigplZO1s4ByO-IufBOcvbpRgemEmhERq0aJy/s320/see-through-prius.jpeg" width="320"></a>We have backup sensors, rear-mounted cameras, and even cars that park
themselves. But despite all these aids, drivers still ram into lamp
posts or fall inside drainage when trying to drive backwards . So researchers at Keio University in Japan have developed a vehicle that turns the back seats transparent when reversing.<br>
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The “see-through Toyota Prius” on display at the 2012 Digital Content
Expo in Tokyo. So since this post is about backward view transparency, i have decided to give you a backdoor view of this amazing innovation.Enjoy.<br>
<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-your-next-car-could-come-with.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-61164052353425858802012-10-11T03:23:00.006-07:002012-10-11T03:52:07.159-07:00Bluetooth-enabled Suitcase and can follow its owner around as well as being traceable when lost.<a href="http://www.springwise.com/img/uploads/2012/10/hop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="alttext" border="0" class="attachment-main-size wp-post-image" height="150" src="http://www.springwise.com/img/uploads/2012/10/hop.jpg" title="Trackable suitcase automatically follows its owner" width="320"></a>Just a few days ago, i was looking for an important document in my house and it was almost like the doc had vanished into thin-air. I wondered if it was possible to Bluetooth everything so that one would be able to find anything, at anytime without hassles. This was my thought until i spotted this new invention called Hop!the exclamation point is technically part of the name, but as with Yahoo!, by Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, a 28 year old Spanish designer <br>
<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/bluetooth-enabled-suitcase-and-can.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-65074161140300326012012-10-08T05:53:00.000-07:002012-10-08T05:53:02.217-07:00How to Get the Most Out of Google Chrome<a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2012/10/chrome_shortcuts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2012/10/chrome_shortcuts.jpg" width="320"></a>Let's face it, the light-and-fast Google Chrome browser is the only
way to surf the web-no question, in case you don't know by now, i tell you it is. But whether you're new to the browser
or an old veteran, i have got some tricks to improve your mileage. This
Google Chrome Optimization Guide will show you which Google Chrome
extensions to download and ways to tweak settings you didn't even know
were there. Enjoy. <br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_LageO0jP_FYxDy9X40f7vttYUU1DaQbUXtTmyffqLRedpPPsNH70DG9O57e9G5cxW_q1SLUnpWSC1kH25HGAjOrw2NEOLVUOhjEdVZ04PvMmJcbz7d-5J1vOr9pGL4WADNi0WCzB6iH/s1600/Tata_Nano_LHD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_LageO0jP_FYxDy9X40f7vttYUU1DaQbUXtTmyffqLRedpPPsNH70DG9O57e9G5cxW_q1SLUnpWSC1kH25HGAjOrw2NEOLVUOhjEdVZ04PvMmJcbz7d-5J1vOr9pGL4WADNi0WCzB6iH/s320/Tata_Nano_LHD.jpg" width="320"></a>It's not that there had been no innovation inside Tata Group, the
117-year-old Indian powerhouse responsible for that nation's first steel
mill, power plant, and airline, among other achievements. But when
India's long protected economy was opened in 1991, Chairman Ratan Tata
decided that for his companies to survive and thrive in a global economy
he had to make innovation a priority—and build it into the DNA of the
Tata group so that every employee at every company might think and act
like an innovator.
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<a href="http://ignovation.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-tata-group-invented-2000-tata-nano.html#more">Ignite the Idea. Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16723552588028193724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248495604556178313.post-13830193805704783772012-10-05T02:22:00.002-07:002012-10-05T02:22:38.643-07:00How Facebook hit 1 billion users: A behind the scene account<a href="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-10-03/feature_facebook41__01__630x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Facebook: The Making of 1 Billion Users" border="0" height="213" src="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-10-03/feature_facebook41__01__630x420.jpg" title="Facebook: The Making of 1 Billion Users" width="320"></a>Just think about this. What if your business had 1 billion customers? Crazy, right? I mean even if they paid or are worth 1 dollar each , you are pretty much a happy and very rich man or woman. You can imagine what happened at Facebook's office when they hit the 1 billionth user.<br>
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The team in charge of tracking <span class="ticker_wrap">Facebook’s (<a class="ticker" data-symbol="FB" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=FB">FB</a>)</span>
growth works on the second floor of Building 17. Most days, the offices
are like anywhere else at Facebook: whiteboards, toys on desks, shorts
and flip-flops, pretty low-key. Around noon on Sept. 14, the second
floor was packed. In one of the common areas, a giant screen showed the
number of active Facebook users worldwide. About 100 people, including
Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants, watched the numbers run up by
about a thousand users per minute: 999,980,000 … 999,990,000 …
1,000,000,000. The counter paused for a moment when it rounded 10
digits, as if to emphasize the point: 1 billion users.</div>
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