Google has been known to get into all areas of innovation, affecting the way we search the web, organize and communicate. One awesome program they have been working on is a self-driving car, an idea that once only existed in the dreams of eager minds. Thanks to some brilliant minds, this dream is starting to become a reality.
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Developers have been doing some neat things with the Microsoft Surface technology, including this great project that brings exploring the solar system to your fingertips. The software gives an incredible real-time experience that you could get lost in for hours.
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Linsey Pollak is a musician, but you'll rarely see him performing with a real instrument. He prefers to make his own, such as a contra bass clarinet made out of a garden hose which he named Mr Curly. Add in some vocal loops and a feather duster and you're set for a unique listening experience that will get your body moving.
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Through some innovative techniques, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that records one trillion frames per second, fast enough to catch light itself propagating through space.
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Salman Khan is the creator of khanacademy.org, a website with thousands of educational videos on topics from chemistry to calculus. In this TED talk he provides some great insights into the problems of education today and how he hopes to change it in the future.
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Using the sun and the sand, Markus Kayser has been working on a project to develop raw goods. The concept is simple, and it makes us think why hasn't it been thought of sooner?
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Google is at it again, this time bringing new ideas to the table in field of social networks and sharing. This may be prime time for Google too, because Facebook has been becoming stale for many (myself included) and in May they lost 6 million users in the U.S. Either way, this new concept is sure to catch on.
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This has to be one of the simplest, yet innovative, products I have ever seen, and I'm obsessed with it. The guys over at Apple have done it once again with their new cover for the iPad 2. Check out the beauty and elegance below.
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That's what this website wants you to do. Following the green initiative, these people created software to create PDF files that cannot be printed out.
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As the stem cell debate continues, progress continues to be made in the field that have led to some incredible results. Recently, scientists have utilized a burn victim's own stem cells to grow healthy tissue over damaged areas of the skin in only a couple of hours compared to current treatment which can take weeks or months.
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The story of a man's inspiration to invent a device that takes plastic products and converts them back into oil.
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I love the endless ways people find to use their iPhone. These four guys decided to have a jam session on a subway using only their iPhones for instruments. The outcome is spectacular.
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