The tag line says it all - “Make sure your building the right ‘it’ before you build it right.” Pretotyping differs from prototyping in one important respect. The main objective of prototyping is to answer questions related to building the…
The tag line says it all - “Make sure your building the right ‘it’ before you build it right.” Pretotyping differs from prototyping in one important respect. The main objective of prototyping is to answer questions related to building the…
NSF will invest in the multi-agency National Robotics Initiative (NRI) to help develop robots that work beside, interact cooperatively with, or assist people in manufacturing, space and undersea exploration, health care and rehabilitation, military and homeland security and surveillance, education…
The best way to prioritise the questions is by uncertainty. An initial order for these three questions might then be: Can I make money from it? Can I get people to know about it? Can I build it? via swombat.com…
Here are some very pleasant surprises from 32hourstartup experience. How many people actually turned up and pitched (with less than two weeks notice) How many projects were presented (about 14) How much of time people spent helping others (instead of…
unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find…
This concept, The City-States of America, is similar to that of the primate city, a term coined by Mark Jefferson in 1939. A primate city refers to a city that is disproportionately larger than the other cities in that country…
At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment. via omedia.amplify.com
Extrinsic motivation is a great way to get people to do boring and repetitive tasks, but it actually harms performance on more creative tasks. Creativity is a surprisingly fragile thing. It comes from deep inside, and external concerns (most especially,…
It’s been said that 90 percent of the data that exists today was created in the last two years. That staggering “hockey-stick” growth presents challenges that must be met if we are to gain valuable insight from that data. If…
Someone told me that once you start blogging, you need to do it daily. I don’t really believe that. It depends on why you are blogging. If you need to write every day, you need to find something interesting to…
