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Bio-ink for Corneal Printing If you have kept up with the printing industry, you are aware that there is a very wide variety of printing materials for 3-D printing. There’s cement to print a house. A real house. In less than 24 hours. In 2014 we reported that one could print a bike, designer shoes…
Two Related Industries I found a good example of the concept of business disruption. When someone comes along with a new way of doing something that really takes off – goes viral – it can disrupt the way the whole industry does things. Two related industries have been experiencing a good deal of disruption lately.…
A belated tribute to moms? In a way, the mom rule is a tribute to moms. Year round, not just on May’s Mother’s Day. This is about a company that has a unique rule to make sure that the product they developed to engage people would not harm them. Beyond the FDA regulations or international…
ISIS Masters SEO A four minute video from MIT Technology Review, featuring Alphabet’s head of R&D, Yasmin Green, speaks about the “perverse best practice” learned by ISIS to radicalize disaffectioned people online. Google (parent organization is Alphabet) is aware of how their search engine is being used. Anyone can learn SEO and do a better job…
Lightening the Load Tall thin buildings need a base of the right size. But that’s not where the need for the sideways elevator exists. The problem has more to do with weight and wait. The weight of cable and mechanism to take the elevator car up and down in an 800 foot tall building would…
Amazon Prime Features In-Car Delivery For a select group of people, Amazon provides the convenience of delivery of your Amazon Prime package to your car. You simply mark the “In-Car Delivery” service box at checkout. A service available only to Amazon Prime members. Who drive eligible GM or Volvo cars. Who also live in one…
Aid from the Bionic Eye I wear corrective lenses. 75% of American adults use some sort of vision correction. My lenses correct my myopia (nearsightedness), to make my vision as close to 20/20 as possible. I’m happy to be able to read, drive and check email on my phone – although not all at the…
Macy’s set to add mobile-checkout to all stores by the end of 2018 We recently saw how Amazon has been testing the mobile-phone shopping concept for years and is just coming to a point where walk-in-walk-out shopping is a reality. Macy’s will be a bit different. But they’ve given themselves only to the end of…
Cell Phones Got Smaller Not that long ago, the size of a mobile phone determined its value. The smaller, the better! That’s because the first mobile phones were so large. Cell phones have reduced. No longer the 2.5 pound original. We measure in 4-6 ounce range. No longer 10 inches long and very thick. We…
Mental activity makes you known Branding your business is a technology of the human mind. As computer users, we don’t consider the mind a technology. Mental synapse still responds in fascinating ways far surpassing the biggest agglomeration of computer intelligence. In spite of the computing power available in the machine, we are aware that it…