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February 26, 2014
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“Comic Sans looks like someone threw up on the keyboard and that’s what came out,” graphic designer Dave Combs told The Huffington Post.
Combs is one of the many haters of Comic Sans, a font that looks like the writing in an old-fashioned comic book, that was invented by Vincent Connare 20 years ago.
September 22, 2013
Technical amazon, aviation, business, Business News, cars, DeepFlight, Deepflight Super Falcon, Engineering, Environment, Graham Hawkes, hot air balloons, Hotels, huffington post, huffingtonpost, Influencers And Innovation, it just flies underwater, little crab, ocean engineer, ocean engineer Graham Hawkes, ocean exploration, Ocean Science, oceans, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, Submarine, Super Falcon, technology, Technology News, transportation, travel, vacation, Video 1 Comment
It all started with a little crab.
While conducting tests with a conventional submersible that crawled on the bottom of the sea, ocean engineer Graham Hawkes came nose to nose with a little crustacean that was poised to fight the underwater machine.
“I remember stopping and laughing,” Hawkes told The Huffington Post. “But I thought, ‘That crab has got it all wrong. These fish are moving in three dimensions. This guy is scurrying along the bottom. So am I. We’ve both got it wrong.'”
Inspired by the movement of fish, Hawkes designed and built the DeepFlight Super Falcon, a submarine that flies through the water like an airplane, instead of taking on water to sink itself. Similar to how hot-air balloons release weights to fly up, traditional submarines have compartments that fill with water to sink down.
Hawkes started a company out of his garage to create the DeepFlight Super Falcon in 1995. Today, Hawkes’ dream has become a reality. “What we’re doing is really, really obvious,” Hawkes said. “There’s nothing that clever about it. We actually build a thing that has wings, we build up speed, and it just flies underwater.”
July 27, 2013
Technical amazon, Bionic Leg, business, Business News, fox mountain, Fox Racing, gruesome details, Health, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Influencers And Innovation, little fox, Mike Schultz, Moto Knee, motocross racer, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, snocross, sports enthusiasts, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Winter X Games Leave a comment
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Snocross and motocross racer Mike Schultz had been a longtime competitor in the Winter X Games before losing his left leg in a tragic snocross racing accident in 2008. However, the inspirational business owner used the tragic event to better his life and the lives of other action sports enthusiasts.
In this exclusive video, Schultz shares the gruesome details of that fateful day. “It was a pretty big hit,” he recalls of the moment he found out that his leg would need to be amputated above the knee.
When he returned from the hospital, he “got sick of sitting around” and started building a special knee and prosthetic leg to accommodate his passion for riding. Soon the Moto Knee was born.
“I use a little Fox mountain bike shock and it has compressed air in it so when I put my weight down into it, the spring pushes me back up,” Schultz says of the design.
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July 27, 2013
Technical amazon, business, Business News, charge purchases, Credit Card History, Credit Card Invention, Hotels, huffingtonpost, influencers, Influencers And Innovation, invention, inventors, monetary gain, nutrition system, reel tape, reel to reel tape recorders, research, Ron Klein, Ron Klein Credit Card, Ron Klein Credit Card Strip, Science, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video Leave a comment
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“I think the statistics today talk about 609 million credit cards that are in existence, just here in the U.S.,” says Ron Klein, the inventor of the magnetic credit card strip. “When I hear those kinds of numbers, I almost have to be apologetic.” Even though his invention changed credit cards forever, he said he never made much money off the patent.
Like any good inventor, Klein identified a problem and created a solution. When Klein returned to the states after serving in the Korean War, he found that the way stores were handling so-called “charge purchases” was needlessly complicated. Klein used similar technology that was used in reel-to-reel tape recorders to create readable strips on credit cards.
Don’t feel too bad for Klein’s lack of monetary gain, though. He made more than enough money from his other inventions, including a “nutrition system” to raise chickens more efficiently.
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June 26, 2013
Medical amazon, aviation, business, climate, Emotiv, Emotiv Epoc, Emotiv Epoc Headset, gaming, Health, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Influencers And Innovation, medicine, mental-health, occupy-wall-street, politics, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, Tan Le, technology, Technology News, transportation, travel, vacation, Video 1 Comment
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At age 4, Tan Le and her family left Vietnam as refugees, venturing out to sea without a clear plan. Her upbringing ultimately inspired her to think big, and now she is making a major difference in the world.
“Anything, even death, would be better than life in that environment,” the CEO of Emotiv Lifesciences describes of the once war-torn country. Upon immigrating to Australia, Le’s parents impressed upon her and her siblings to “work hard, study hard, get good marks at school and then do something worthwhile with our lives.”
Initially, Le began with the simple desire to be able to move something with her mind. That idea led to the creation of the Emotiv EPOC, a headset that “picks up electrical fluctuations that result from neurons firing inside your brain.” With a set of 14 sensors, the device can detect the user’s thoughts, feelings and expressions in real time.
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May 30, 2013
Technical amazon, business, camera inventor, Digital Camera, Digital Camera Inventor, digital cassette, eastman kodak, Eastman Kodak Bankruptcy, fundamental business, Future, gadgets, huffingtonpost, Influencers And Innovation, Kodak, Kodak News, New Digital Camera Technology, research, sasson, Science, Science News, Slideshow, Steve Sasson, storage place, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video Leave a comment
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Steve Sasson was working at the applied research lab at Eastman Kodak when he was asked to look into a new apparatus called a charge-coupled device. One year later, the first digital camera was born. But, while the invention changed the industry forever, it also caused the demise of one of the biggest photo companies in the world.
“The revolution was going to happen,” Sasson says. “I didn’t know when, and I didn’t know how effective it would be. In the end result, the fundamental business model of Kodak was undermined by the new technology.”
Sasson is credited with building the first digital camera in 1974 using a Fairchild CCD. He utilized an imaging chip to receive light from the lens and convert it into numbers. The charge pattern, he explains, was read quickly into a permanent storage place, which then happened to be a digital cassette tape.
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