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  Invisible Cloak redux

  10.19.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I wrote about this a few months ago in this entry, but it appears that more progress has been made on this subject of science fiction and fantasy. Scientists at Duke University have managed to hide a copper cylinder. It’s still got a ways to go, it’s only 2 dimensional and still casts a shadow, […]

• Innovation

  480 million reasons to take a risk

  10.09.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on 480 million reasons to take a risk

  Earlier today I wrote an entry about Sevin Rosen’s stated intent to stop raising venture funds because there were no good exits. Well, the timing couldn’t have been better. Today, Google announced the acquisition of YouTube for $1.6B in stock. Another venture firm, Sequoia Capital, put $11.5M into YouTube for what was believed to be […]

• Innovation

  VCs losing confidence

  10.09.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on VCs losing confidence

  Your traditional venture capital (VC) firms, Sevin Rosen in this case, are finding it hard to deal with success and expectation. In this article, Sevin Rosen general partner Steve Dow talks about how the expected returns for new venture funds “ain’t gonna happen” and that’s why they’ve decided against raising $300M for new investment in […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  NextGen Whiteboard

  10.06.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on NextGen Whiteboard

  Stopped by Kevin Chu’s blog today and saw this YouTube video: Imagine what fun Rube Goldberg would have had with this! Amazing. Next generation design system, you bet. Ohio State’s 2006 record: 5-0 Next up: Bowling Green 10/7 Tune: What I got by Sublime Technorati Tags: Design | MIT | Smart Board | Mike Harding […]

• Energy, Innovation

  US Electricity Consumption

  10.06.06 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Do you think, over the next 10 years, that US electricity consumption will increase or decrease? An interesting question, there are constant conservation programs and there is ever improving technology (like Sun’s Ultra T1 processor,) but do you think that’s enough to offset any increase in demand? Sometimes a historical look can be illuminating when […]

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