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Innovation
Watch SA-born entrepreneur’s SpaceX vehicle blast off online
The trope of geeks dreaming of space is a well-worn one. Thing is it’s not exactly without basis. Today one of those geeks might just see one of those dreams come true.Space X is the brainchild of South African-born PayPal founder, inventor, engineer and billionaire genius Elon Musk (If that description sounds a bit like Tony Stark, it’s probably because Robert Downey Jr based his character on Musk.A little later this morning the programme will launch its Dragon ...Beyond connectivity: The ‘gigabyte revolution’
The latest trends in mobile are leading the "gigabyte revolution" which will take us to the one gigabyte per user per day by 2020, says CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks Rajeev Suri.The evolution of mobile technology will lend itself to an era where connectivity will be a human right and download speeds will be 10 times what they are now.Suri was speaking at the Korea Communications Conference, which explores the journey of mobility and its future potential."Connectivity will ...Want $4m? Come up with the next big idea in energy
We need to fix energy. That much is obvious. Fossil fuels are slowly choking the planet, nuclear is falling out of favour and although the alternatives are getting more efficient, the scope for improvement is massive.One way to get people innovating is to give them an incentive. About US$4-million sounds good.The Zayed Future Energy Prize is offering exactly that amount of money for companies, individuals, organisations and high schools that think they can change energy for the better.Held ...Five minutes with 22seven founder ahead of Net Prophet talk
Online money management system 22seven blew into our collective consciousness at the beginning of this year under a controversial storm. Most of that controversy centered around the fact that the service allowed third-party applications to access users' banking details. The innovative startup is the brainchild of 20Twenty founder Christo Davel, and is billed as an "intelligent money-saving tool" that plugs directly and securely into users' personal bank accounts and then delivers analysis on spending habits.It’s one of the sexiest startups ...Virgin Galactic: Space is much closer than you think
Space: the final frontier, one small step and whatever other clichéd expression you might care to think of. Little by little though, it’s becoming something that could be within the reach of ordinary people.You’ve probably heard of Virgin Galactic. After all, it’s been kicking around for a few years now. Hell, you might have forgotten about it, or dismissed it as one of company founder Richard Branson’s pipe dreams, never to be realised.Thing is it’s closer to making its ...4 Lessons from the PSFK Conference on creativity, business and technology
It took some time to digest the insight given out by speakers at the recent PSFK Conference in New York, but the information imparted was well worth the tech time-out.1. It is possible to have deeper and longer-lasting ways for people to tell stories about their lives Even as we hurtle towards this over-load of information that seems to be disposable and created by someone else, Jonathan Harris believes we have an opportunity to create something more tangible. He’s behind the ...5 Tips from Clay Shirky on creativity and innovation
Clay Shirky -- the writer, teacher, and consultant on all things online -- recently told an audience of innovators, tech enthusiasts and creative minds what they’d least been expecting to hear. There are no rules for creativity.The event, organised by innovation news site PSFK is designed to inspire and impart knowledge from those who've taken risks and succeeded, with experience and insight to share.Shirky's talk underlined a point that had been illustrated by those who took part in ...What kind of disruption does Africa’s tech scene really need?
What is it really to disrupt, or what is a disruptive innovation? And to put it in the African context, what does ‘disruption’ mean for the continent and what are the opportunities to disrupt?A dictionary definition of the term ‘disrupt‘ is:to throw into turmoil or disorder
to interrupt the progress of (a movement, meeting, etc.)
to break or split (something) apartDisruptive innovation is NOT making a good product betterClayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the term and came up ...Memeburn’s best moments from SXSW 2012
With South by Southwest Interactive now all but forgotten in the wake of the tunes from the 2 000 or so musicians who took to stages all over Austin for the music portion of the festival and conference this past weekend, organizers and tech enthusiasts alike are reflecting on another year gone by.For ten days, role-players involved in the tech, film and music fields gathered at the annnual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, with an eye to ...Is the flying bird man real? [Video]
A video’s been making waves around the web today. It purportedly shows a man achieving flight using nothing but a pair of wings, some muscle-boosting gears, an Android-powered smartphone, and some Wii controllers, but is it real?The flying device’s supposed inventor is a Dutch chap called Jarno Smeets, who claims to have built the prototype over the course of a year and to have been inspired by his grandfather’s design for a flying bicycle.In an official press release, ...
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