19-year-old Egyptian physics student Aisha Mustafa is someone we may see again in the media in the future because though young she’s patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that makes use of an obscure, and only recently experimentally proven, quantum physics effect.
Mustafa’s Space Drive: An Egyptian Student’s Quantum Physics Invention
The hype around gamification may be over, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t an incredibly useful concept that can engage audiences in powerful ways.
Gamification expert Gabe Zicherman spoke at The Next Web Conference last week about the power of the process, and how it can improve everything from your health to your intelligence. As he puts it, it’s not just about “Crappy badges.”
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(via Gamification’s Not Just About Silly Badges [Video] - The Next Web)
“IF YOU’RE MAKING THE CUSTOMER DO ANY EXTRA AMOUNT OF WORK, NO MATTER WHAT INDUSTRY YOU CALL HOME, YOU’RE NOW A TARGET FOR DISRUPTION.”
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Sphero says it is taking its SDK on the road with the Sphero Hack Tour, which is aimed at generating interest and new content for the gaming system. The first hack will be Web-hosted, before the tour goes to Boulder, Austin, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and finally New York from May to November. Each event will see $12,000 worth of prizes dealt out to those responsible for the best hacks, giving further encouragement for developers to get building for Sphero. (via Sphero Gets New Apps, now Encourages Developers)
At 17, Sahil Lavingia helped design Pinterest. Then, a year in, Lavingia left. Now he’s starting Gumroad, a new service which he says will revolutionize social shopping and e-commerce—and maybe even alter the way people create. Here’s how it works: Say you’ve made something—a song, a blog post, an app, etc.—and you want to make a little money from it. Just upload it, price it, then Gumroad, whose slogan is, “Sell anything you can share,” provides you with a custom product URL that is easily shareable across your existing social networks. Gumroad makes money by taking a 5% cut out of each purchase.
“I had covered Jobs for Fortune and The Wall Street Journal since 1985, but I didn’t come to fully appreciate the importance of these “lost” years until after his death last fall. Rummaging through the storage shed, I discovered some three dozen tapes holding recordings of extended interviews—some lasting as long as three hours—that I’d conducted with him periodically over the past 25 years. (Snippets are scattered throughout this story.) Many I had never replayed—a couple hadn’t even been transcribed before now. Some were interrupted by his kids bolting into the kitchen as we talked. During others, he would hit the pause button himself before saying something he feared might come back to bite him. Listening to them again with the benefit of hindsight, the ones that took place during that interregnum jump out as especially enlightening.”
The Problem with Facebook by stickycomics
That burn is so sick it’s diseased with boils bubbling out of it.
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MagicPlan 2.0 Arrives: Create Instant Floor Plans Using Your iPhone Or iPad’s Camera - http://pulse.me/s/89GtW
