IBM Unveils Nanophotonic Chips that Could Lead the Exascale Computing Revolution ” IBM is prepped to lead the way into the next era of exascale computing…saying its next-gen silicon chips that communicate via pulses of light, rather than electrical signals, will be commercially available starting next year. This would allow for chip…[Read more]

“The essence of the flaw is that the method for router updates runs on the honor system.” Recently, networking hardware that routes traffic on the Internet got new marching orders: Requests for data from 15 percent of Internet addresses—including Dell.com, Yahoo.com, Microsoft.com, and U.S. government sites—were directed to go through China.…[Read more]

If you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, start watching at 14:45, at around 15:30 he discusses disruptive innovation (drag the bar at the bottom to skip forward). Watch 10:25 to about 11:15 to see the video of his disruptive innovation in action (it’s pretty amazing). Here Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost…[Read more]

Everyone is probably familiar with the Edge and Temple’s student housing….and how incredibly slow and painful it can be to get anything fixed or replaced. The Edge has taken a bold, highly-innovative move and has allowed their facebook page to become a medium for resolving maintenance requests and allowing students to gripe in general. I…[Read more]

Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, who went on to father many of the inventions that define the modern electronic era, was the first to let electrons off their leash, in 1890. Tesla based his wireless electricity idea on a concept known as electromagnetic induction,holds that electric current flowing through one wire can induce current to flow in…[Read more]

A newer website has a very innovative new idea: Instead of paying postal companies high fees for shipping and waiting for delivery while the uncertainty of a large company losing your shipment grows with each day, send it with a stranger. Citizenshipper.com allows senders to post free ads for shipments and a free bid on each contract [...]

Business Week has an article called “How to Measure Innovation”, wherein it discusses a British team and their goal to create an index to asses innovativeness in each industry. Claiming that the original standard of money invested in R&D does not correlate properly with innovations, since banking and other industries spend very little on R&D [...]