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Cisco’s Infographic About the Internet of Things

On the Cisco blog on July 15, 2011, Dave Evans, Cisco’s Chief Futurist in their Innovations Practice, posted the following infographic about the Internet of Things, which I’ve been writing about for a...

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El Hierro – Isolated Island a Great Demo of Renewable Energy

Over at ThomasNet Green & Clean this week, I wrote about efforts by El Hierro, the most remote of the Canary Islands, to become completely self-sufficient and wholly reliant on renewable energy —...

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Non-Functional Machine on Smithsonian Logo – So That’s Why Innovation Never...

Smithsonian.com recently started a new “Department of Innovation” blog to “track all things innovative.” However, Michelle Malkin rightly notes that the logo used on the blog represents a...

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A Way to See the Sky in 3D

Fascinating cartoon from xkcd. Think he really did this? Would it work? He doesn’t say whether the effect works with objects farther away, such as the moon. Probably not. (The full image doesn’t fit...

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Infographic Shows US Solar Industry’s $1.9B Net Export Surplus

I thought this was an interesting and useful infographic highlighting the growing U.S. solar manufacturing business. Right now, it shows a $5.6 billion industry that imports $3.75 billion, for a $1.9...

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AT&T Telemarketing Fail

Today a telemarketer from AT&T interrupted my workday (even though I’m on the do-not-call list) and offered to sell me a triple-play bundle of digital TV, Internet, and phone. When I asked him if...

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The Creative Process – How an Intricate Stop-Motion Animation Project Came to...

I just heard a fascinating interview with sculptor and stop-motion animator John Frame, who explained how his long-term project “The Tale of the Crippled Boy” came to him in a dream. Frame had been a...

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Mechanical Transmission of Power With Endless Rope Drives: More Efficient...

Wire rope transmission in 1896. Source: Stadtarchiv Schaffhausen. Kris De Decker at  Low-tech Magazine has published a fascinating article discussing rope drives, a 19th-century technology that was...

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Using Speech Recognition to Automatically Transcribe Interviews, Meetings,...

I’ve been looking for a way to use speech recognition to automate the transcription of interviews, meetings, speeches, conference presentations, and so on. I spend a lot of time on the phone...

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‘Marketing in Virtual Communities’: A Retrospective

In 1997, I wrote an article for Internet Marketing & Technology Report titled “Marketing in Virtual Communities.” The IMTR newsletter, now out of print, was published by the research firm Computer...

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