Stories tagged "innovation"

Borrowing technology from the booming matchmaking dating business like Match.com, entrepreneurs are creating innovative ways for people selling their homes to find perfect matches. With 14% more homes on the market than last year this innovation is needed

Wouldn’t it be pretty cool if we at least could get rid of the burden of having to carry our luggage or suitcases?

Leave it to Japanese designers to bring superb engineering and creativity to even the most everyday products. This time it's mechanical pencils.

The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time. Conversations with Nathan Myhrvold. Fantastic reading, and extremely well written.

IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

The Grid, the latest spin-off from CERN, is a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity over the Internet. This could ultimately provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images, instant online gaming with hundreds of tho

A 71-year-old farmer has found a unique solution to Japan's chronic shortage of space: grow 11 different kinds of fruit on a single tree...

Ever wish you had a little more space in your apartment, or that your furniture was more than just functional? These days more and more designers are using

Have you ever looked at super creative or innovative people, and felt they are special beings blessed with gifts? There is no such thing as “being more creative”; you are already a creative being.

The Hyper-Sub -- A Submarine and Surface Cruising Powerboat. About the Hyper-Sub, the world's first autonomous, small submarine capable of high speed surface travel over long distances.