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and store energy from wind and the Sun. As designs improve oe and get cheaper oe the idea of a home on the ocean will become more affordable.
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Wafer-thin artificial leaves separate with the rising sun as buildings wake up. They continue to follow the sunlight over the course of the day,
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In August, two more were found using images from Google earth. Radar has even been used, famously uncovering vast new areas of the vast Cambodian temple complex Angkor Wat.
For example, Arlen Chase believes it could help us to better understand settlement patterns along the Amazon,
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India's electricity grid is kind of like the sun, White explains. You get electricity every day,
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A group led by British-born plant scientist Stephen Long is trying to improve the ability of plants to harness energy from the sun. Their aim is to turbocharge photosynthesis,
and ramp up the plant's ability to harness the sun. That is easier said than done.
However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent
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. start-up that sells titles for the ipad and iphone. As a $4. 99 application sold through Apples itunes store
oethe Master of Rampling Gate comes with video interviews with Rice and others. Rice speaks about her inspiration for her works
Owners of oeibird Explorer, a digital book produced for the iphone by field guide publisher Mitch Waite Group,
and warbles of wild birds and match them against a database of bird sounds to help the oereader identify the species
Devices made by Amazon com Inc . and Intel Corp. are able to convert text into speech. oeyou now have the ability to make a book talk,
said George Kerscher, head of the Digital Accessible Information system Consortium in Zurich, Switzerland. Kerscher, who studied computer science at the University of Montana and is blind,
has spent two decades lobbying publishers to make books more accessible to visually impaired readers. Digital technology is also transforming reading from a famously solitary experience into a social one.
either from phones or computers. Readers can follow the stories online or receive a text every time their favorite author adds a plot twist.
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#Shifting Trend in Luxury Purchases Buying Top Technology and Investing in a Lifestyle Experience The new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health
The four brands most admired by Americans with six-digit incomes in a recent survey by the marketing specialist Affluence Collaborative were Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy and Sony.
Sony soon will be the first consumer electronics maker with a Google feature built into its TV SETS.
Folks watching any show will be able to use a special remote to search Google on the same TV screen.
and made them more function for women carrying devices from iphones to ipads, says Michael Tucci,
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said the soft-spoken inventor. oetemperature from the sun does not go beyond this level in terms of heating
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#Future Ag Can Better Food Create Better People? Radical transformations are brewing in the worlds oldest industry Can better food create better people?
and senior futurist at the Davinci Institute and currently Googles top-rated futurist speaker. At the Institute, he has developed original research studies,
His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard
, National Association of Federal Credit unions, STAMATS, Bell canada, American Chemical Society, Times of India, Leaders in Dubai, and many more.
Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.
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#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,
The system works by mimicking the natural hydrological cycle where seawater heated by the sun,
Like the Seawater Greenhouse, CSP works well in hot arid areas where the sun is at its most powerful.
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#Two months after Paypal opened its platform, 15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services The banks
and credit card companies have spent 50 years building a proprietary, locked-down system that handles roughly $2 trillion in credit card transactions and another $1. 3 trillion in debit card transactions
Iveys wife, using her pink RAZR phone, sent him a note via Twitter. But instead of typing the letter d at the beginning of the tweet
Ivey, a computer programmer based in Alabama, began wondering if he and his wife hadnt hit on something:
For the most part, its powers were confined to ebay, the online auction company that purchased Paypal in 2002.
But last summer, Paypal began giving a small group of developers access to its code,
which has received funding from Nokia, allows phone owners to transfer money to one another with nothing more than a PIN.
Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,
And last March, Apple gave itunes developers the ability to charge subscription fees through their applications
making itunes the gateway for an entirely new breed of transaction. When Research in motion announced a similar initiative last fall at a session of the Blackberry Developer Conference in San francisco,
programmers crowded the room, spilling out into the hallway. About 20 percent of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems, according to consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research.
It expects that number to grow to nearly 30 percent in just three years. But perhaps nobody is as ambitious as Paypal.
15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services, sending $15 million through the companys pipes.
Software developer Big in Japan, whose Shopsavvy program lets people find an items cheapest price by scanning its barcode,
used Paypal to add a oequick pay button to its app. Liveops, a call-center outsourcing firm, built a tool that streamlined payments to its operators, turning
Google created a platform that lets anyone buy or display online advertisements. Facebook allows any developer to write applications for its social network
and Apple does the same with its itunes App store. Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power
and storage space they need to build applications and services. Now Paypal has brought this same spirit of innovation and experimentation to the world of payments.
Your wallet may never be the same. The banks and credit card companies have spent 50 years building a proprietary, locked-down system that handles roughly $2 trillion in credit card transactions and another $1. 3 trillion in debit card
Mitchell Wolfe, an ecommerce veteran who ran Compaqs Canadian Internet sales team before moving on to a series of startups,
Apples itunes and Research in motions payments program reduce transaction fees by bundling a customers purchases before sending them to a credit card company for processing.
Virtual currencies, from Microsoft Points to Linden Dollars, encourage oein-world trade, incurring credit card and banking fees only when their users buy in.
when it was purchased by ebay for $1. 5 billion. Suddenly the service, always a favored payment method on the site
Between 2005 and 2008, Paypal went from serving as the payment provider for 47 percent of ebay auctions to facilitating more than 60 percent (ebay expects it to hit around 75 percent by 2011.
as long as ebay was growing. But in CEO Meg Whitmans last years at the companys helm,
Users dragged Paypal onto ebay in the first place. The company had resisted initially the move. Other users cobbled together Paypal-enabled oetip jars,
embraced its developers, and turned its service into a platform? What if Paypal asked its users to create the tools
you cant just let developers come in here and open accounts and move money around, he says.
whether developers would play along. So in late 2007, he started on a road trip to meet with the people who were already building on Paypals limited open code.
He met with more than 100 developers most of whom were eager to help build an easier, more flexible system.
The developers envisioned something larger, a true digital currency that could be used on any Web site,
In April 2008, Bedier led a meeting at ebays North First street headquarters, where he presented his idea to CEO John Donahoe and his lieutenants.
Most of the information is already available there are plenty of databases that provide real-time pricing information,
Iveys wife, using her pink RAZR phone, sent him a note via Twitter. But instead of typing the letter d at the beginning of the tweet
Ivey, a computer programmer based in Alabama, began wondering if he and his wife hadnt hit on something:
For the most part, its powers were confined to ebay, the online auction company that purchased Paypal in 2002.
But last summer, Paypal began giving a small group of developers access to its code,
which has received funding from Nokia, allows phone owners to transfer money to one another with nothing more than a PIN.
Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,
And last March, Apple gave itunes developers the ability to charge subscription fees through their applications
making itunes the gateway for an entirely new breed of transaction. When Research in motion announced a similar initiative last fall at a session of the Blackberry Developer Conference in San francisco,
programmers crowded the room, spilling out into the hallway. About 20 percent of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems, according to consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research.
It expects that number to grow to nearly 30 percent in just three years. But perhaps nobody is as ambitious as Paypal.
15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services, sending $15 million through the companys pipes.
Software developer Big in Japan, whose Shopsavvy program lets people find an items cheapest price by scanning its barcode,
used Paypal to add a oequick pay button to its app. Liveops, a call-center outsourcing firm, built a tool that streamlined payments to its operators, turning
Google created a platform that lets anyone buy or display online advertisements. Facebook allows any developer to write applications for its social network
and Apple does the same with its itunes App store. Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power
and storage space they need to build applications and services. Now Paypal has brought this same spirit of innovation and experimentation to the world of payments.
Your wallet may never be the same. Want to catch up? Heres a look at forms of digital currency
A form of money used in an online virtual world, such as oelinden Dollars in Linden Labs Second life or oegold pieces in Blizzard Entertainments World of Warcraft.
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The wondrous inventions of the modern economy#oogle, Amazon, the iphone#roadly improved the lives of middle-class consumers,
is already challenging Google, itself hardly an old-school corporation. But the biggest winners have been individuals, not institutions.
We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,
Among these is Google s Zeitgeist conference, where I have moderated discussions for several years. One of the most recent gatherings was held last May at the Grove Hotel, a former provincial estate in The english countryside,
Google flew in overnight Internet sensations from around the world. Yet for all its luxury, the mood of the Zeitgeist conference is hardly sybaritic.
and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (not to mention, of course, Google s own CEO, Eric Schmidt). But the most potent currency at this and comparable gatherings is neither fame nor money.
who had sold his Zappos online shoe retailer to Amazon for more than $1 billion the previous summer.
which Google showcased some of its new inventions, including the Nexus phone. This geeky enthusiasm for innovation and ideas is evident at more-intimate gatherings of the global elite as well.
Take the elegant Manhattan dinner parties hosted by Marie-Josã e Kravis, the economist wife of the private-equity billionaire Henry, in their elegant Upper East side apartment.
Indeed, in this age of elites who delight in such phrases as outside the box and killer app,
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Leading the charge is Google with over 700,000 Android devices being activated daily. Over the past year, Google activated more than 255 million devices compared to 105 million Apple activations.
Admittedly this isn t a true apples-to-apples comparison (no pun intended) because Google doesn t make their own phones
and Apple does. As smartphones and other devices evolve in this exploding market, look for a near-term push into near-field communications, 4g,
Many limit their thinking about gamification to mobile apps but it has far broader implications.
it will be the year that major players like Google and Mastercard roll out their cashless initiatives around the world.
In October 2011, the Google Wallet, a free, NFC-enabled mobile payment system became operational at select retailers across the US.
In June 2011, Paypal demonstrated its own mobile payment app for Android devices. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey s latest venture, Square, is an electronic payments service
which enables users to accept credit card payments by using a portable card-reader device that plugs in to iphone, ipad or Android devices.
Both the Square card-reader and app are free although there is a 2. 75%charge for each payment made.
The izettle app works with iphones and ipads. Bills can also be paid or money transferred using this service.
Google CEO Larry page sees himself as the next great visionary, following in the footsteps of Steve jobs, Nikola Tesla,
Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150 000 driverless miles on highways.
and for Google to make a play to design an Android-like operating system for all driverless cars. 22.)
and the bottom-up design capabilities of app developers around the world, drones will quickly move from the realm of personal toys to functional necessities that we interact with on a daily basis. For those of you looking to switch careers,
Apple s App store currently offers 9, 000 mobile health apps, along with 1, 500 cardio fitness apps, over 1, 300 diet apps, more than 1, 000 stress and relaxation apps,
and over 650 women s health apps. But apps are only part of the equation. Peripheral devices are setting the stage for the true self-revolution:
All Apples stores now carry the Withings Blood pressure monitor, a peripheral device that plugs into the ipad,
iphone or ipod Touch and takes the user s blood pressure. Data can be sent directly to a doctor or saved (confidentially) to the cloud.
Lifelens has created a smartphone app to diagnose malaria. The app can magnify a drop of blood (captured via a simple finger prick)
and identify whether malarial parasites are present. In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.
Also in October 2011 AT&T announced it will begin selling clothes embedded with health monitors,
able to track the wearer s vital signs heart rate and body temperature and upload them to a dedicated website.
The X Prize Foundation is cosponsoring a $10 million prize for the best mobile device allowing consumers to diagnose their own diseases.
Every new peripheral device will create a market for hundreds of new apps, and we haven t even scratched the surface of
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Book-to-App Converters Over the coming months we will begin to see a form of competition brewing between books and apps.
we will begin to see a large scale effort to convert existing books and literature into an interactive app, similar to the current effort to convert popular literature from print to audiobooks.
Smart Dust Programmers In it s simplest form, smart dust consists of a sensor combined with a wireless transmitter and some kind of power source.
Smart Contact Developers The idea of smart#contact lenses the kind that can superimpose information on the wearer s field of view has been around for a while.
Mass Energy Storage Developers As a society, we have become very good at generating electricity,
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We now have over 1 million mobile apps available for download. Putting this into perspective,
the whole mobile apps revolution began in March of 2008 when Steve jobs announced the software developer s kit for the Apple iphone.
When Apple s App store officially opened on July 11, 2008 there were a whopping 552 apps to choose from.
To say the apps were an instant success is a gross understatement. Over 60 million apps were downloaded within the first 3 days
and tech companies around the world began to sense a market shift. Little did they know how much,
and how many industries would be affected. As of today, over 20 billion apps have been downloaded and there s no end in sight.
But the piece getting very little attention is the exploding field of smartphone peripherals that extend our current communication systems far beyond simple person-to-person communications.
While there are literally thousands of peripheral devices either in existence or being contemplated for the marketplace, I ll focus on just a two pieces of technology smart dust
HP will take its first step toward this goal in about two years, according to Pete Hartwell,
a senior researcher at HP Labs in Palo alto. The company is under contract with Royal dutch shell to install 1 million matchbook-size monitors to aid in oil exploration by measuring rock vibrations and movement.
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#Marc Andreessen explains why software is â eating the worldâ##Groupon, Facebook, and Linkedin investor Marc Andreessen.
Hewlett-packard announced this week that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software,
Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Hewlett-packard and Googles moves surprised the tech world.
Marc Andreessen (board member at Hewlett-Parckard) explains why software is eating the world. Both moves are also in line with a trend Ive observed,
which has invested in Facebook, Groupon, Skype, Twitter, Zynga, and Foursquare, among others. I am also personally an investor in Linkedin.
when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones,
giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
Running that same application today in Amazons cloud costs about $1, 500 a month. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
In 2001, Borders agreed to hand over its online business to Amazon under the theory that online book sales were nonstrategic and unimportant.
Today, the worlds largest bookseller, Amazon, is a software company#ts core capability is its amazing software engine for selling virtually everything online
Amazon rearranged its web site to promote its Kindle digital books over physical books for the first time. Now even the books themselves are software.
Apples itunes, Spotify and Pandora. Traditional record labels increasingly exist only to provide those software companies with content.
when it debuted the popular game on the iphone in late 2009). Meanwhile, traditional videogame powerhouses like Electronic arts and Nintendo have seen revenues stagnate and fall.
The best new movie production company in many decades, Pixar, was a software company. Disney#isney!#
Now its been joined by Groupon, Living Social, Foursquare and others, which are using software to eat the retail marketing industry.
Groupon generated over $700 million in revenue in 2010 after being in business for only two years.
Todays fastest growing telecom company is Skype, a software company that was bought just by Microsoft for $8. 5 billion.
Centurylink, the third largest telecom company in the U s.,with a $20 billion market cap, had 15 million access lines at the end of June 30#eclining at an annual rate of about 7%.Excluding the revenue from its Qwest acquisition,
%Meanwhile, the two biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies,
And the creation of software-powered driverless cars is already under way at Google and the major car companies.
Great incumbent software companies like Oracle and Microsoft are threatened increasingly with irrelevance by new software offerings like Salesforce. com
and Android (especially in a world where Google owns a major handset maker). In some industries, particularly those with a heavy real-world component such as oil and gas, the software revolution is primarily an opportunity for incumbents.
Its not an accident that many of the biggest recent technology companies#ncluding Google, Amazon, ebay and more#re American companies.
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want,
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#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.
Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new Quick Tap#payment technology.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
Owners of the Apple iphone are keenest, but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too.
Thats not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.
Even though the near-field communications technology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,
Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit
The app allows a constant, running check on transactions and provides a real, useful and sometimes painful tally of expenditure.
even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,
Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
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#Adoption of Mobile Wallets Being slowed by Behind-the-Scenes Battle Among Corporate Giants Consumers would wave their phones instead of swiping credit cards at the checkout counter.
The cellphone has been more than a cellphone for years, but soon it could take on an entirely new role#standing in for all of the credit
consumers would merely wave their phones. Theres just one hitch: While the technology is already being installed in millions of phones
You have banks competing with carriers competing with Apple and Google, and its pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.#
These include Paypal and Google, which want to play a part in a new payment system,
which want to collect fees through their control of the phones themselves. In the middle#and perhaps playing a deciding role#are the retailers.
to store important payment credentials on a secure piece of the chip inside the phone.
There are several technologies that allow phones to communicate wirelessly with other technologies, though the front-runner for payments is called one near-field communication,
was the impetus behind a joint venture by Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Discover to create their own mobile wallet.
Barclaycard, already a major player in Britain, will be the first issuer of the groups in-phone credit card
Because their model is powered by a chip that consumers insert into a slot in certain phones,
But that variation may become outmoded as more phones with embedded chips become available. Visa said it was also working with other providers to ensure that its network would work in all wallets.
if a phone was stolen. Consumers would not be responsible for transactions they did not make. Apple and Google already have payment systems#Apples itunes has 200 million accounts tied to credit cards,
while Google Checkout has been less popular. Both could be turned into mobile wallets, allowing users to pay for offline purchases with their Apple or Google accounts.
But they would need access to the cellphone chips and the merchants terminals. Apple could make its own cellphone chips to make this all happen,
but Google could not because it makes only Android cellphone software, not the phones themselves.
Getting retailers on board is important to the widespread adoption of the mobile payments because many merchants will have to replace their card terminals.
While one analyst estimated conservatively, that only 5. 9 percent of merchants will accept mobile payments by 2015,
And in Japan, people have been swiping phones at convenience stores and bus stations for several years. Other global markets may have a single dominant mobile carrier
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