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My business mentor from afar: the brilliant Jack Dorsey.
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brit:
A Water Fountain For Your Tap
The Tapi squeeze drink fountain is a $5 rubber gadget you attach to your sink that lets you use the tap as normal OR, by squeezing, turns your sink into a water fountain.
It’s great for both rinsing your mouth or taking a few gulps, all in a hygienic way. And it comes in more than 10 colors, which is obviously a selling point in itself.
Easy. Simple. Sustainable. Different colors. Sold.
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“If ever there were an opportunity to think big and attack large markets with incumbent players, its now. I’m a believer that in the next 5 years we’re going to see every major industry reinvented in ways we didn’t see coming. I mean, who would have guessed a silly little site for college kids could reinvent the IPO?”
BRYCE DOT VC: Everything will be reinvented
Fantastic post.
“…what the fuck has gone wrong with our country? Used to be, we were innovators. We were leaders. We were builders. We were engineers. We were the best and brightest. We were the kind of guys who, if they were running the biggest mobile network in the U.S., would say it’s not enough to be the biggest, we also want to be the best, and once they got to be the best, they’d say, How can we get even better? What can we do to be the best in the whole fucking world? What can we do that would blow people’s fucking minds? They wouldn’t have sat around wondering about ways to fuck over people who loved their product. But then something happened. Guys like you took over… and all you cared about was milking profit and paying off assholes in Congress to fuck over anyone who came along with a better idea, because even though it might be great for consumers it would mean you and your lazy pals would have to get off your asses and start working again in order to keep up.”
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
This is exactly what my father says about this country. It is the reason he left Nigeria 35 years ago for “The Land of Opportunity” only to be dismayed at what the new century United States looks like. SMH. We’ve got to do better.
The Copenhagen Wheel aims to transform bicycle use in Denmark’s largest city through promoting urban sustainability and building new connections between the city’s cyclists. In this work, bicycles become smart mobile sensing devices that map the real-time flow of people and environmental conditions in Copenhagen. This is achieved through strategically placing small location and environmental sensors on bicycles to gather information as people ride through the city. This data then powers applications of benefit to citizens, city municipalities and researchers interested in understanding more about city dynamics.
The components of the project are an electric bicycle wheel that can be easily retrofitted into any regular bicycle and location and environmental sensors which are powered by the bike wheel and in turn provide data for a variety of applications.
The Copenhagen Wheel project demonstrates that small intelligent implementations can lead to major changes. This work will be displayed at the 2009 Cop 15 UN Climate Summit where the next version of the Kyoto Protocol will be signed.
Background In 2007, MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and the Municipality of Copenhagen began a three-year research partnership to investigate how digital technologies can be harnessed to understand city dynamics in Copenhagen with a view to sustainability and livability.
VERY COOL! Innovation will lead us out of this recession and build/rebuild our planet. How can you do your part?
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“Financial innovation can be good… by lowering the cost of borrowing for everyone, giving consumers more investment choices and, more broadly, by helping the economy to grow.”
