Think of Lydon Baty as the modern version of the bubble boy. Although his body is usually safely at home, to guard against germs his bodies can’t handle, his mind isn’t trapped there. It travels around by robot. Not literally. We’re not there yet. But Lydon has a robot surrogate who goes to school for […]
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As our parents and grandparents get older, wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to unobtrusively monitor whether or not they’re eating, taking their medications or getting out of the house? A new product, that will be shipping in July, makes it easy to just that. Called Lively, it’s an elegant device that uses
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When you think of entrepreneurship in prison, you probably think trading cigarettes for pinups or jello for protection money. A new program called The Last Mile hopes to change that. The Last Mile hopes that through entrepreneurship, it can prepare convicts for employment and reduce recidivism. Considering these founders have never used the Internet or
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After years of telling consumers that eating too much salt was bad for their health, a new report from the Institute of Medicine at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turns conventional wisdom on it’s head: There [is] no rationale for anyone to aim for sodium levels below 2,300 milligrams a
If you want to get on the show Shark Tank, and make a deal with the Shark’s, this excellent guide from Shopify will really be helpful to you: How to Get a Deal on ABC’s Shark Tank
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