Scientists Made An Artificial "Cloud" That Pulls Electricity From Air

A new prototype compatible with a wide range of materials could grab a continuous supply of renewable energy from the air.

‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewab

Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes

Think Like Feynman: Why You Should Have 12 Favorite Problems

Discover the practice of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman that has changed lives, including a method to find serendipitous answers to questions.

35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now

Artificial intelligence models have found their way into many people’s lives, for work and for fun.

Schmuck Insurance

The Art and Science of Not-Quite-Selling

Women’s Basketball Continues Slump

SB Loses Shootout to Manhattan On Nov. 24 Stony Brook’s Women’s Basketball team faced the Manhattan Jasper’s. In a high scoring affair, Stony Brook lost by a final score of 74-68. The Jasper’s held the lead most of the game, including a game high 12 point lead at half (44-32).

You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think

Let's take a closer look at how nonprofit FORGE helps founders manufacture on the other side of town instead of the other side of the world.

WTF is Marketplace Liquidity?

Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity

The Original King of Crypto Is Back

Arthur Hayes rubbed success in the Feds’ face and got busted. Now he’s returning to a shell-shocked industry.

Share Files With a Fist Bump: Wi-R Confines Signal to a User’s Body

The latest wireless protocol ditches radiation and focuses on a new medium: your body.

How New Ideas Arise | The MIT Press Reader

Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences.

This personal whiteboard has everything you need to take notes anywhere, an

https://youtu.be/txci5QkpSWc Writing things by hand has become fashionable again despite the prevalence of computers and smartphones. In fact, some have embraced this "analog" system of note-taking exactly as a reaction to the dominant reliance on technology. Whatever the…

How to draw ideas - Ralph Ammer

Four ways how to use drawing to get more ideas: Study, Explore, Develop, and Show. They will boost your creativity.

Smash hits: How viral memes conquered piñata design

Forget tradition. Social media trends are now driving piñata sales in Mexico.

This 28-year-old built a side hustle that brings in $30,000/month: 'I only

During the pandemic, Quinn Miller quit his sales job to start a vending machine side hustle. Today, his business brings in $30,000 a month, and he only has to work six hours a week on it. He shares how he got started.

ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment — Benedict Evans

The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step change in what ‘AI’ can do that could generalise far beyond the cool demos. What can it create, and where are the humans in the loop?

Branding With Bonobos? A Conservation Fee Might Help Save Them.

Data suggests brands can blunt public awareness of species loss when they use at-risk animals in ads. Should they pay?

Hacker News

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays | Hacker News

Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10.

Introducing Wyldcard — Wyldcard

Introducing Wyldcard, a new paradigm for tabletop gaming, trading cards which can magically change as you play.

Should You Invest in Disruptive Materials?

Twenty Questions

Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 100. You guess, and I tell you whether my number is higher or lower.

A "psychological vaccine": Why prebunking is the best way to fight misinformation

By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.

How a five-star prospect from Georgia ended up homeless, ineligible and 2,000 miles away

Junior defensive lineman T.A. Cunningham has turned to the courts after his cross-country move to pursue NIL opportunities went awry.

T-Mobile dominates 2.5 GHz spectrum auction to fill in network gaps across

T-Mobile spends $304 million to win over 90% of available 2.5 GHz licenses.

The family that built a ballpark nachos monopoly

Anytime you order nachos at a sporting event, there’s a good chance they came from a molten-cheese empire in San Antonio, Texas.

YaCy – your own search engine | Hacker News

NakedPack uses edible, soluble food packaging to give you a complete meal

https://vimeo.com/721917759?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=125548125 One of the most wasteful and mostly non-biodegradable things we have lying around is food packaging. But if you buy your food or ingredients in "traditional" supermarkets or from the usual brands, you…

Targeting Cancer’s Achilles Heel

Biden’s Cancer Moonshot aims to cut annual deaths in half. Scientists have the goal in their sights.

Super Hot Sand Could Help Us Store Renewable Energy

It’d be much cheaper than lithium battery storage.

Every Complex Idea Has a Million Stupid Cousins

Chances are, you've met far more stupid cousins than you realize

The Guilt-Free Pleasure of Airplane Movies

Amid the endless tiny indignities of air travel, only one true retreat remains.

How 10 Classic Toys Were Invented

Ever wonder how Lincoln Logs or Sea Monkeys found their way into 20th-century toy stores? Here are the little-known origins of 10 classic toys.

Rules for weird ideas

On asking people to consider stuff that sounds crazy

The Key to Successful Innovation? Progress Over Product

Tap into people's unspoken needs to create breakthrough innovations.

Semis for Everyone?

Google is promoting the growth of open source tools for designing semis. The science fiction version of this story leads to everyone designing chips, the reality is going to be much narrower, but s…

MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body | MIT News | Ma

MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.

Understanding idea adoption (you’re not a slot, you choose a slot)

In the last year, millions of people have bought a copy of 50 Shades. Here's the thing: they didn't all do it at the same time. Some people bought it when it was a self-published ebook. O…

3 Strategies To Building a Marketplace Startup | SaaS Academy

Building a two-sided market is probably the hardest thing you can build as an entrepreneur. It's so hard that a few weeks ago, I organized a Marketplace

A Look Back at the Package Under the Golden Arches

Early Happy Meals promoted the McDonaldland characters, which were introduced in 1971.

The Startup Idea Matrix

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23 Ways to Generate Startup Ideas

“Writing is Thinking”—an annotated twitter thread

“Writing is thinking” is my favorite expression for how to work in a company. This annotated thread explores the value of writing.

Spreading Slow Ideas

We yearn for frictionless technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change.

Popsockets growth

http://diytoolkit.org/tools/fast-idea-generator-2/

Repair Café - Fix Your Broken Items

Repair Café is here to help you fix your broken items. Join our community of skilled volunteers and get your belongings repaired in a sustainable way.

The Tool that Will Help You Choose Better Product Ideas | HackerNoon

Let’s say you manage a product that helps small businesses support their customers. You’re looking to improve customers’ engagement and retention levels. There are two ideas are on the table:

87 Service Business Ideas to Start Today

With this many ideas to choose from, you have no excuse not to get started today with your own service business.