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Car Comforts with the Efficiencies of an Electric Motorcycle #CES2016
With an aim of helping to “catalyze the shift to a sustainable transportation system,” Mark Frohnmayer and the company he founded, Arcimoto, have a game-changing vision. Frohnmayer, who has had start-up success in the gaming world, is pragmatic about how to achieve that vision as evidenced by the prototype SRK that was on display at Pepcom’s recent…
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IoT – Internet of Trash Cans #CES2016
With 254 million tons of garbage generated each year, according to 2013 EPA statistics, it is no wonder that some portion of it spills into the roadways, sidewalks and green spaces of America. As seen in the above video, Grant Jenkins and the company he cofounded, eCeptacle, believes their IoT solution, not only can help reduce litter,…
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You Can Make a Difference
“You have to believe you can make a difference and I do believe that,” says Cliff Duncan of Duncan Cable in the above video filmed at the 2015 ACA Summit. Duncan and his colleagues from around the country provide a glimpse of why the ACA Summit is an important venue for showing Washington D.C. policymakers the…
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Distributed Heating or Computing Solution?
Imagine using the heat generated by a data center to warm homes. The team behind France-based, Qarnot Computing had such an idea and created a distributed data center solution that provides homeowners free heat and smart home capabilities in a compact unit. A smart software system that manages the compute nodes and process, together with a Fiber to the…
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You Don’t Need to Be There to See It in 3D
Is 3D video poised for a rebirth of sorts through user-generated content? Looking through it with the eyes of a 15-year-old and hearing the “wow moment”, one has to think that 2016 might finally be the year of 3D video. Low-cost and simple 3D capture, along with low-cost virtual reality headsets could be the elements…
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The Meditation App & Headband
With the buzzing of text message alerts, the temptation to check social media and the knowledge that an answer to a fleeting thought is a search away, the conventional wisdom is that technology can be distracting and an impediment to focus. Ariel Garten has a solution that uses these same tools to help people improve…
