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New Apple patent may offer clues to future mobile payment solution (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider)

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
New Apple patent may offer clues to future mobile payment solution  —  A newly-granted patent could point to how Apple will handle mobile payments if and when the company decides to enter the market.  —  U.S. Patent No. 8,255,323 for “Motion based payment confirmation” may seem innocuous at first glance …

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British Engineer Tells Us How He Invented The Shower Of The Future – Business Insider


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British Engineer Tells Us How He Invented The Shower Of The Future
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We asked this inventor about his inspiration, his penchant for creating sustainable products, and his newest invention: Concrete Canvas, a type of flexible concrete that he uses to make shelters for rapid deployment in disaster relief and remote

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Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses (Jack Purcher/Patently Apple)

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses  —  Apple has been toying with a heads-up display or video glasses since 2006 and they’ve already been granted a patent for their invention.  Then earlier this month Apple’s video glasses project won a surprising second patent …

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The art of important work, of making a ruckus and of inventing the future (Fred Wilson/A VC)

Fred Wilson / A VC:
The art of important work, of making a ruckus and of inventing the future  —  Entrepreneurs teach VCs, not the other way around.  And I was lucky early in my career to back Seth Godin, who taught me a lot.  When I met Seth, he was writing books and building a web company.

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The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen (Chris Anderson/Wired)

Chris Anderson / Wired:
The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen  —  He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg.  His face isn’t known to millions.  But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we communicate.

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The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future (Alexis Madrigal/The Atlantic Online)

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future  —  After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups.  —  We’re there.  The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we’re living in it.

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