This week, Minneapolis-based FinderCodes announced its electronic lost and found system. The system combines the use of mobile phones, QR codes and a website to fill the everyday need of recovering valuable lost items. Now available for purchase at www.FinderCodes.com, the FinderCodes kits blend scannable QR codes, smartphones, and durable identification tags to enable a […]
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According to estimates by the financial website 24/7 Wall Street, zombies pump more than $5 billion of life into the nation’s economy and even more globally. Here’s their math: Movies: $2.5 billion. Video games: $2.5 billion. Comic books, magazines, TV: $50 million. Halloween costumes: $500 million over four years. Books: $100 million. Merchandise: $50 million.
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The Washington Post: It’s called Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, and it refers to the practice of allowing employees to use their own handheld devices (and in some cases, laptops or desktop computers) to access their work networks. The practice is already popular. A Cisco study determined that 95% of the surveyed organizations are
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You may have heard that earlier this week a consortium of billionaires has started a company called Planetary Resources to mine the asteroids. If you’re wondering why, consider this: How much useful material is out there is astonishing. A famous 1997 publication, “Mining the Stars,” suggested that at that year’s prices, a small metallic asteroid
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The Pirate Bay has launched a new category called Physibles. They explain: Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You
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Business Insider: “I’ve found that entrepreneurs, unlike smart people, get focused on working with whatever they have at hand and doing one important thing at a time. Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once.” Perhaps all entrepreneurs are smart people, but not all smart people are entrepreneurs. In order
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Now I Know: David Johnson is an allegedly homeless man living in San Francisco. He is also a street performer who makes, in a good year, north of $60,000 per some reports. His instrument? Two branches from eucalyptus trees, with greenery intact, each about five feet high, which he hides behind while sitting on a
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