27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012. We may never have our flying cars, but the future is here.
From creating fully functioning artificial leaves to hacking the human brain, science made a lot of breakthroughs this year. 1. Quadriplegic Uses Her Mind to Control Her Robotic Arm. The Top 12 YouTube Education Channels. There’s a whole host of educational videos out there. From Sal Khan’s famous set of instructional video lessons to the one-off videos by individuals … there’s a lot to sort through. So where do you start? If you’re like me, you go straight over to the king of all video sites, YouTube. They have a dedicated education section ( YouTube EDU ) where they have a curated list of resources. See Also: The 100 Best Video Sites For Educators From the YouTube education channels to the videos to users … there’s a lot there.
To begin, here’s the top YouTube Education Channels, sorted by category: University & College NPTEL – 10,843 videos This channel provides technical lectures from all seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. UC Berkeley – 5,082 videos The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation.
Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2012. We launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2012 was our first full year of operations.
To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2012. Click the link if you missed last year’s Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2011. We do some other rankings too. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month and we also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our Innovation Excellence Weekly email and FREE MAGAZINE, so an annual Top 100 seems like a logical fit. Kickstarter’s best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded. Kickstarter released its “best of” list for 2012, and the numbers are impressive: 2.24 million people funded at least one project and pledged a total of $319 million.
That’s more than $600 per minute over the course of the year, with 18,109 projects successfully funded. The crowdsourced funding platform remained true to its artistic roots. Despite many well-known gadget Kickstarter campaigns like the Ouya gaming console, which raised $8.6 million, the biggest categories included games at $83 million raised, followed by film and video, design, then music, with technology coming in fifth place with $29 million. Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2013.
We hope that you’ll find these concepts as inspiring as we do, and that they spark even more innovation in the year to come!
1. Brazilian fashion retailer displays Facebook ‘likes’ for items in its real-world stores One of the problems brick-and-mortar retailers have with Facebook likes is that – by their very nature – they’re visible online, rather than in stores. In order to bring them into the real world, Brazilian fashion outlet C&A installed displays on their coathangers to inform shoppers of the popularity of each item.
Cardboard bicycle can be built for less than $15. It was a little over a month ago that Dutch stroller manufacturer Joolz began giving its cardboard packaging a new lease of life as chairs and lamps, and now Israeli entrepreneur Izhar Gafni has demonstrated just how versatile the material can be.
In fact, Gafni has built a working bicycle entirely out of recycled cardboard for a production cost of less than USD 15. We’ve already seen bamboo bikes , of course, but Gafni’s prototype uses recycled cardboard instead and is reportedly designed to accommodate up to 300 pounds. Besides costing very little to produce – between USD 9 and USD 12 per unit, to be specific – the device is also durable, eco-friendly, lightweight and easily carried. Perhaps best of all for those in urban settings is that there will presumably be a reduced chance of it being stolen compared to pricier alternatives. The video below explains the premise in more detail: Gafni is currently looking for investors for his project, according to a Newsgeek report . [NL] 10 CRUCIALE CONSUMENTENTRENDS VOOR 2013. CrowdCrux CrowdCrux » Crowdfunding News and Analysis.
Internationalisatie Scan. 80 nieuwe ideeën voor de gezondheidszorg van morgen. Op 9 december sloot de inschrijving voor de prijsvraag ‘beste Brabantse bedrijfsidee voor de gezondheidszorg van morgen’.
Maarliefst 48 mkb ondernemers hebben de stap gewaagd en hun creativiteit getoond. Opvallend is dat de ideeën vanuit alle sectoren komen: leisure, logistiek, dienstverlening, creatieve industrie, bouw, ict, industrie en groothandel. “Een prima resultaat, want om te innoveren heb je nieuwe inzichten nodig. Een frisse blik van partijen die mogelijk zelfs nog nooit iets in de zorg gedaan hebben”, aldus Dick de Jager, programmamanager IAB4. Vandaar dat ook studenten en patiënten zijn benaderd om te komen met ideeën. Nieuwe ideeën voor de zorg. Honderd feiten over social media netwerken in 2012.