Innovation

Crazy inventor creates X-men Pyro inspired wrist mounted flamethrowers

Modern day Victor Frankenstein, Colin Furze, is at it again, inventing a storm of X-men gadgets. The latest in his series of seriously dangerous…

Screw innovation, the New York Times need to focus on TBD

The New York Times Innovation Report has been ripped to pieces by many brains in the media world but the issues are the familiar…

Break. Make. Create: Your survival depends on it

Embracing a creative ideology and accepting that creativity is a value driver has always come easy to me. However, finding empirical evidence on the…

The future of wearables: nail art, expressive hats and a smoke machine

When I walk around this show (Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair) and talk to the young geniuses that Intel has brought together, it…

11 lessons on innovation from Nobel laureates [#IntelIsef]

The modern world is about how innovations and technologies can make our lives easier. As a society we keep finding ways to disrupt our…

When the world ends, zip ties and duct tape will save you [#IntelISEF]

Technology is advancing at an unstoppable pace, but what if we started thinking more about how tech and innovation can further humanity and build…

Detection and treatment: the real spaces for innovation in healthcare [Wired Health]

Over 300 attendees crammed into the very apt Royal College of General Practitioners in London for the inaugural Wired Health conference last week. Content-wise…

How three big New York museums are embracing the app experience

In a classic case of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, museums and art galleries around the world are embracing the opportunities of…

Four things Africa has to get right to guarantee future innovation

Fail to innovate and you will simply be left behind. As I previously noted, this is especially the case for the African continent. Africa…

Student wins international award for generator built from used hard drives

A student from the University of Cape Town (UCT), a prominent South African tertiary institution, has won an international innovation award for a wind…

Renault launches in-car tablet, R-Link [LeWeb]

French car manufacturing giant, Renault chose LeWeb 11 to launch its new in-car tablet device, R-LINK: A seven inch tablet that offers a multimedia…

Undersea cables set to launch African bandwidth explosion

Many years ago, I worked for UUNET Internet Africa in South Africa. I remember sitting in the Operations room and looking at an international…

Five artists who are pushing the digital frontier

The face of the music industry was irrevocably altered when the digital age dawned, changing the way people obtained, listened to and interacted with…

The ghost in the machine — Inside Siri

It didn’t take long for hackers to crack the Siri protocol and discover exactly how Siri works. The beautiful thing about the hack was…

What Africa needs to innovate on a global scale

It’s common knowledge that Africa, as continent, has been a leading innovator when it comes to mobile. Given that mobile phones arrived on a…

Fully automatic: 7 mind-blowing tech innovations

Recently, I wrote an article discussing how rapid technological innovation may ultimately have far reaching impact on the job market through jobless growth. This…

The rise of China and other mega-trends from Mary Meeker

Queen of the Net, Mary Meeker, presented her “Internet Trends” for the year at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Francisco earlier this…

Josh Spear: ‘Collective Action’ and ‘New World Economies’

“When I was old enough to talk, I told my parents I wanted to sell ideas,” says Josh Spear. He must be a rich…

Five ways Africa can move up technologically [Tech4Africa]

Africa is lagging in technological innovation says TED Fellow, Ndubuisi Ekekwe. The continent’s obsession with consuming technology has left it lagging as a technological…

11 African tech innovators to keep your eye on

Prominent technology conference Tech4Africa has announced 11 finalists for its inaugural Innovation Award. The award aims to recognise the important role technological innovation will…

Technology, a language not an industry: Discovery Invest Leadership Summit

“We have technology that not even the wildest science fiction writers could have believed,” said Adrian Gore, opening the Discovery Invest Leadership in South…

RaspberryPi — Your credit-card sized computer

For a couple of months, I’ve been watching RaspberryPi with a lot of interest, because I think these guys are about to do something…

Productivity On A Large Screen

Everlytic Launches Cutting-Edge AI Studio with WhatsApp Chatbots for Smarter Communication

Everlytic’s new API Communicator feature enhances customer engagement across multiple channels

Savant Launches Savant Build Cohort 3 to Accelerate Deep-Tech Innovation in the Green Economy

Simplicity at scale: The role of leadership in agile transformation

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Nio Firefly brings Galaxy design to compact EVs

Google Cast and other Christmas goodies for Rivian

GM switches-off Cruise control on $10bn robotaxi project