Some discoveries, events, or innovations have significantly changed the course of history. Antibiotics. The bubonic plague. The printing press. Our history and present day would be quite different if things like these had never happened.
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Innovation, experimentation, collaboration. That’s Global Game Jam.
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The author grabs life by the cubes, and tackles a challenge over thirty years old: Rubik’s 3x3x3 puzzle cube.
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Microsoft announced the field today for its 11th annual Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, which will be held in July in St. Petersburg, Russia. The competition includes of 86 teams made up of more than 300 students from 69 countries. The teams are tasked with designing projects built on Microsoft technology that fall into one of three categories: innovation, games, and world citizenship.
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Rice University Professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovations and then promptly gave it all away.
Continue ReadingLast Fall, First Lego League teams of kids ages 9-16 were challenged to research the problem of food contamination and develop solutions that would make food safer. Teams from over 60 countries then submitted their ideas which received nearly a million votes that narrowed it down to just four finalists.
Continue ReadingHey, kids, do you have an idea for a product or an invention that could help people in their daily lives? Then you should check out the Innovation Challenge, a new contest from the Boy Scouts and Edison Nation, the …
Continue ReadingThe ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando is not for the casual tourist looking to score some sports memorabilia while visiting Orlando; rather, it’s a state-of-the-art sports facility with technology in every corner. In early March, GeekDad was …
Continue Reading[Read part 1 of this series about the upcoming graphic novel Theft! A History of Music and the history it reviews and part 2, which discusses how copyright entered the picture.] Imagine a 20-year-old musician publishing his work today. Let’s pretend he’s living the fast and reckless life of a rock star and will die […]
Continue ReadingRead part 1 of this series about the upcoming graphic novel Theft! A History of Music and the history it reviews. In part 3, we’ll talk about what it all means for the future of music. Our society and its lawmakers are notoriously bad at predicting the effects of new technologies. I think of the […]
Continue ReadingWhy did Plato argue that remixing should be banned by the state? What threats did jazz and rock ‘n roll pose? And what does all of that mean for the conflicts between artists and copyright today? Those are the questions Jennifer Jenkins, James Boyle, and Keith Aoki answer in layman-friendly language in Theft! A History […]
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